This project is inspired from the returns of the cultural probes project “Investigating people’s sense of belonging”. The personal and intimate stories of the participants' lives led me to explore in greater depth, the unseen social interplay between people in a home.

I became interested in exploring some of the accepted notions around the idea of “control” that technology has brought in our domestic life.

1. Through a small change in objects in a home, how do relationships between people alter?
2. Beyond the immediacy of interaction, how can an object create anxiety?
3. What happens when passive and functional objects start "misbehaving"?
4. What are the social, psychological and cultural experiences that are mediated through this change?

Through the eyes of everyday domestic objects, the project aims to make a social comment about the impact of technology in controlling and altering relationships between people.

Duration: 4 weeks [January-February 2005]