Redefined Coms
October 24, 2023
Redefined-coms explores the possibility of radically redefining personal telecommunication devices to resonate with alternative notions of identity. Mobile telecommunications systems use the unchanging ‘international mobile subscriber identity,’ that bakes in an individualistic notion of identity within this fundamental identifier.
Utilizing redefinition design within a counterfactual 1970’s timeline, the project presents three alternative 1970s mobile phones that resonate with social theory, place theory and bundle theory notions of identity.
Designers
Dr Austin Houldsworth
Dipo Olaosun