What types of new gestures could we invent? How can we rethink our interactions with an object and with our body, using time as a game mechanism? How to transform time passing into a playable story?

We walk around with digital assistants wrapped around our wrists that track our daily activities. Some can even quantify our vitals and tell us when to take a deep breath. Decades ago, we wore calculators and gaming devices as high-tech cuffs. In movies, those wrist-worn techs saved the world once or twice and were the ultimate weapon of spyware. In countless sci-fi stories, our heroes’ wrists were the icons of space-age futurism… Somehow, our wrists have always been a coveted place to materialise a future that may never happen. A playground for quirky, sometimes useful devices. They started with our need to tell time, now these wearable objects allow us to have access to our data, communicate with others or manipulate virtual environments. What types of new gestures could we invent? How can we rethink our interactions with an object and with our body, using time as a game mechanism? How to transform time passing into a playable story?

These questions acted as the starting point for the atelier conducted with the first year’s students of the Master Media Design. The outcome of the process resulted in the creation of a playable and interactive narrative storyboard presented alongside a functional demo built through design iterations and observations.

Students:

Léonie Courbat

Marine Faroud-Boget

Flore Garcia

Mariia Gulkova

Narges Hamidi Madani

Amaury Hamon

Margot Herbelin

Elie Hofer

Dorian Jovanovic

Tomislav Levak

Louka Najjar

José Camilo Palacio Constain

Faust Périllaud

Michelle Ponti

Hanieh Rashid

Tibor Udvari

Nathan Zweifel

Huiwen Zang

Teachers:

Alexia Mathieu, Douglas Edric Stanley, Laure Krayenbuhl, Pierre Rossel