Breathe Kritisk
Breathe Kritisk is a fictional rehabilitation machine. It does not cure any physical symptoms, but it may cure deep-rooted beliefs that we have about the control between medical devices and one’s body. The machine stands as a two-meter-tall chamber with two air pillows inside. The visitor can inflate and deflate the air pillows through the breathing sensor, which sometimes complies with and other times manipulates the visitor’s breath. This work aims to provoke visitors to reflect upon control which patients grapple with and lose in medical settings and to technological devices. The design stems from medical humanities, which focuses on subjective and invisible experiences in…