MindPod (2020)
My role : Opportunity finding / Experience and interaction design / Branding
The team : Man Taratorn / Milky Yuxi Lao / ZJ / Felicity
International project with Pratt Industrial design and Interior design students in New York
Overview
MindPod — a reconceptualisation of hidden functions of bathroom
Mindpod is a personal space for everyone who is stress out or need a private space to release their emotion in the public space.
Impact
By defining the location of the pod in the bathroom, Mindpod will change our perception of bathroom. It’s not just a place to clean physical dirt but it will be a place to relieve our negative feelings.
Rethink Hidden Functions of Bathroom
Identity design
Visual identity is one of the most important elements in this project to be able to communicate MindPod in the public. Inspired by the hear shape and the curve line of the gate of MindPod, the logotype presents warmness like a blanket holding users when they are inside the pod.
Defining the spot of the pod
MindPod is based on to Joel Sanders’ inclusive future bathroom model as an ideal spot. With Joel’s model, this will allow MindPod as a revolution of bathroom which is a place where it encourages people to release their stress more intuitively and without stigma.
Additionally, MindPod can be placed outside the bathroom such as office and school corridors where people are easily accessible.
