Desires
What would our desires be if we were simple hooks on a wall? Though possibly absurd, it is within this question that the foundation of 'Hook's Desire's resides. When asked to design a straight forward tool like a hook, the process of design often addresses areas like material, form, function, client and cost. While these conventional research fields provide guidelines in the creative process of many designers, they also created boundaries. By allowing to expand beyond what is accepted, new possibilities have the opportunity to occur. 'Hook's Desires' explores an alternative research method by looking into and expanding one's imagination.
This project is the result of a process in which an individual personifies, like children often do, a hook and put oneself in the hook's point of view. Such an act might appear aberrant in producing something functional like a hook, but the objective of this process is to allow unconventional ideas to be imagined and considered. Once these ideas are visualized, the unrecognized potentials of each finding can be discovered and expanded on by viewers. Through the desires of hook, we encounter something new. What does a hook desire while being stuck on a wall, in it's unchanging form, existing in repetition and always dismissed? What new possibilities will it encounter in its dreams?
Born in Japan and having moved to Canada when he was fifteen, Fukushima currently resides in Vancouver British Columbia (2010). Interested in designing meaningful experiences, his practice evolves around creating phenomena that are experimental, discursive, and functional. He has also curated design exhibitions as a way to communicate the possibilities of design and the importance of design communities.
