John James Marshall thesis.pdf - OpenAIR @ RGU - Robert Gordon ...

automatically put on those three things every morning and I never even think
about it. I make things for other people to wear but I never think about what I
wear myself. So this is where I started thinking back to it is all so much habit.
It’s just something I do it’s ordinary. So I started to look at these habits, look at
my own habits – what I was wearing and why I was wearing it. This was at the
same time as working on the course on interactive media so as my thesis project
these three questions came up: how do you change your habits? Or what if you
want to change a habit and you don’t really know where to start, especially when
it comes to something that you wear. I tried to stop wearing things for a while
and see how it made me feel – it makes you feel a bit naked without it - it feels a
bit odd leaving something that you wear every day and not putting it on. Could
a piece be more adaptable to change? Could things that we wear reflect change
or different habits – when you do wear them or don’t wear them or why you
wear them? If you had some way of reflecting on these habits could that
encourage you to remember these habits more or to think about them some
more or could it make you forget or change your habits in some way?
Remember to Forget?
This is the piece that is showing at the exhibition called ‘Remember to Forget?’
It started life as a series of questions and this is what it has developed into – it
has been through a number of incarnations. So it is a piece of jewellery and a
jewellery box. When I was thinking about my own habits – the only time I
notice these couple of things that I wear every day is when I put them on in the
morning or when I take them off. When they are actually on they fade into the
background. This is where the idea came of holding the point of putting on or
the point of taking off – I always leave them in the same place every night
because they are important and I don’t want to lose them. They sit in a box or
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