Staredown Toolkit
Turn your smart home security camera into a creative collaborator that archives boring moments.
Background
Smart home security cameras often blend into the background. They passively surveil us and contribute data to our digital archives. The Staredown Toolkit uses playful cases and a centralized playback tool to reimagine these cameras as an active collaborator in documenting your creative process and sentimental boring moments in the home.
Date
2022 (12 weeks)
Showcase
University of Washington
Senior Design Capstone
Speculative Interventions
Staredown Toolkit is a series of speculative interventions on how we live with smart home devices and think about our digital archives overtime. What if your smart home security camera was a plant pot? How can performance art draw attention to the value of documenting the “boring moments”?
Staredown Case
To draw attention to these devices, place a Staredown Case over your cameras. Each case has a functional compartment that allows you to store items like paintbrushes on your desk or car keys by your front door.
The Staredown Case and Playback Tool are the antithesis of all things security.
Instead, they help you reimagine smart home security cameras as an active collaborator in documenting your creative process or archiving sentimental boring moments in the home.
Designed to be modular. Combine cases to create a one-of-a-kind sculpture.
UW Design Exhibition
This was my Senior Design Capstone at the University of Washington. My graduating design cohort showcased our projects for public viewing at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery on June 8–18, 2022. Our exhibition theme was "Design as Disruption."
