Experimental Art Spa Experience

Design Concept

The Sauna & Bathhouse.

A place of enhanced presence, an existing ritual that combines social elements with extreme sensory shifts. We propose shifting the focus from health/luxury/escapism to self- and collective awareness. By harnessing the familiar, psychologically powerful rituals of undressing, cleansing, hot/cold temperature shift, and relaxation/contemplation and combining them with technologically mediated elements our Experimental Art Spa experience (EASe) will shed light on how our environment and our senses are intertwined.

As an art installation, it highlights the relationship between context and our perception of time, and as a designed service, it provides an distraction-free contemplation/relaxation environment and an opportunity to be fully present and vulnerable in a respectful social context.

By making a modular, moveable installation we not only increase its possible contexts of use, we also open up our design to re-iteration, evolution, and expansion.

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