Living Architecture Spring 2007 Columbia

The "ScreamBody" project, mentioned in "Making the World 125 Percent Better," fascinates me because it is a physical response to human emotion. ScreamBody acts as an ideal kind of therapy, in which the user relieves stress and unwanted emotion in order to be able to review it later. The "surrogate lung" functions simultaneously as a silencer and embracer of the human impulse to create noise. In a social context, ScreamBody allows the user to conform to societal convention, while performing unconventional impulses.

In taking this project one step further, I would think about how to express/contain other emotional impulses that do not necessitate speech. Examples could include motion impulses such as throwing things or hitting in anger.