blow me anthropomorphic elements in daily environments provoking various behaviours and fantasies by Han Decorte from belgium

'Blow Me' is a project that looked for ways to change how we perceive objects. By utilizing the alter ego of objects and their anthropomorphic properties I found ways to design a more mutual uncontrollable relationship, where you have to interact with your surroundings. It makes you build a stronger affinity with your environment.
I do feel that we have a one-sided relationship with the objects around us. Unlike people, our surroundings don’t talk back to us. My aim would be to enhance a more interactional relationship. To create the same closeness we have with people, by enhancing the mutual uncontrollable interaction. Just think of all the times you sat at a table. Yet, it’s never part of the conversation. We always ignore it, pretending it’s not there.
The key in building a stronger empathy to our personal environment lies in creating a mutual, uncontrollable relation. And so, with walls that ‘breathe,’ slowly moving in and out, I aim to add a sense of life and personality to an environment that we usually consider inanimate.
In my project 'Blow Me', each setting generates a different feeling, inspiring the user to look at the world in a different way; a world populated with living, breathing objects that can be responded to as real entities. Children still have the ability to do that, but we lost that as adults.
I created spaces where the architecture affects you in a serene, anxious or pleasant way. Normally we perceive or surrounding as we interfere with them, by having the surrounding interferes with us. The user creates an affinity because it does something to you as if it was alive.
The spaces I created are experiences. Each setting revives a different feeling and touches different human perceptions. These installations, movies and models are meant to become architectural interventions. A breathing wall at home might take away the loneliness we feel sometimes.