Faculty of Design

Industrial Design

Allen Wang

A Corporeal Instrumentality Project

What if your watch looked towards you to tell time? Grounded in principles of speculative/critical design, this thesis creates interventions on instruments of measure to explore what it means to restructure dimensionality through a body-centred perspective. How does our relationship with time change when we measure it not in terms of hours, minutes, and seconds, but in heartbeats? Along the Situationist critique, the meta-project celebrates the creativity and curiosity of Makers as a driving force for interventionism at an individual scale, while leveraging the collective, grassroots impulse of Maker Culture to challenge endemic structuralisms in how Modern society has quantified the world around us.

“On my portfolio website, you can find an in-depth explanation and documentation of my thesis as well as its many satellite projects, alongside work in service design, design research, and a kaleidoscope of conceptual explorations. I'd love to hear from you if you have any questions, comments, or feedback—feel free to shoot me an email or connect on LinkedIn!”