Isabel Pradilla...

Isabel is a Textile Futures MA student, who works with conceptual concepts. 

This project is interested in how constant reliance and dependence on technology is causing people to become superstitious.

"The Future Amulets project explores the concept and apparent contradiction of technological developments giving birth to superstitious beliefs and devotions in our hight-tech everyday life."

Isabel is exploring ways of creating boundaries between technology and ourselves. enabling people to disconnect from their 'online lives' and connect more with their physical lives. 

 She found inspiration from a book called Future Amulets, which is a journey of a superstitious time traveller of the future travelling back in time. He explores The Seventh Kingdom of life , technology and collects amulets found on three different technological phases during his journey: digital voodoo,soul keepers and future dream catchers.

Digital Voodoo

      FUTURE AMULETS

      PHASE ONE: Digital Vodoo

      Date: circa 2013
      Place it was found:

      Offices/households/inside peoples bags.      Use:

      Used to make vodoo to cellphones,

      cancelling reception by sliding them in the

      leather bags.
      Individuals associated with this object:

      Technology anxious men and women, over

      24most of the time.

      Materials:

      Steel wool linning/leather/hair to pull when in

      desperation/pins to hurt device.

      Process or Processes:

      Faraday Cage.
      General comments:

      These items were used by people who were going

      mad and desprate because an over-comunication.

      It was an attempt to reduce the anxiety that

      technology started to produce.

This idea was to stop the phone from working and being constantly checked by placing it in this 'voodoo' bag which cancelled the signal. I like the idea of creating something to intervene. People are often glued to their phones and check them so often that it gets in the way of living, although I am not interested in producing a product this projects aims are similar to my own. This is a different approach to similar issues that I am looking into and I feel it is a worth wile cause and a topic that does deserve looking into.
when I first looked at this work I assumed it was just a leather bag to put a phone in, and I thought the phone would still go off from inside, but this bad actually blocks the signal, I think this is a new approach and is much more effective. 

Intervention of technology dependence through textiles...