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What is it that makes us who we are? What are the non-physical capabilities and traits that make us all unique from one-another? How can these specific skills be measured? Most importantly, how can these non-tangible aspects be represented in a physical condition?
In order to represent a human brain abstractly, our proposal considers four aspects of an individual brain: cognition (logic and memory), motor skills (hand-eye co-ordination), visual (visual memory and association) and audio (sound memory and association). A series of 3 tests in each of the 4 areas will be conducted to assess an individuals capabilities and traits.

The unique data will be used to drive a parametric model based upon each individual. As the data is abstract, the possibility for abstract physical representation is possible. For this reason, our physical object could be anything; a desk, a chair, a jacket, a pen or a building. This proposal represents the abstract data as a lamp, uniquely formed and constructed to a persons test results.

In an ideal world the test would be quite long, and widely varied, in order to assess each person more closely and create a lamp that is more finely tuned to the abilities. The lamps parameters will be driven by a combination of the test results; the corner heights of each skill box will be varied to create a unique form for each. The perforation pattern will be directly related to the physical size of each side of the 4 boxes, providing 17 different lighting diffusing screens for the lamp.

The finished product will combine a mixture of opaque semi-opaque plastic folded forms, wrapped around the internal light tube which will be situated on solid MDF or plywood base.

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