Jasmine Cox
22nd December 1986
+447772270009
www.jasminecox.co.uk
jabber@jasminecox.co.uk

University of Dundee, Duncan of Jordanstone; Product Design

Exhibiting at:
Degree Show, Dundee, Vision @ Seabraes, Greenmarket, Dundee, DD1 4QB
23rd May – 6th June 2009
New Designers, Business Design Centre, London N1
16th – 19th July 2009

Displacement Engine - to alter the settled state
By Jasmine Cox

Routine is disappointing, repetitive, and dull.

A Displacement Engine gives you that little extra push to break you out of a routine, and wander the unexplored route.
It uses the unique coordinate of your home or a loved location, and satellite data to generate a desired heading for you to get back when you have walked away.
By pulling the slider closer and pushing it further away, the user learns to relax the need to be heading in an absolute direction. It allows the experience of a place and an outdoor space to absorb and distract them.

Designed to be a beautifully uncomfortable object, this experimental device also treads the line between safety and risk. Whilst the bond tethering you to home is always present the nature of GPS signal, weather conditions, and density of cover; means there is discretion in the accuracy of its readings and a user has to question whether it is always telling the truth.
Follow the needle and see where it leads you.

Jasmine was inspired by a bored and disillusioned person who expressed that their greatest fear was that nothing would ever change in their life, sure that they would continue to replicate the same routine day after day after day.

As a natural rural explorer at heart, Jasmine was brought up in the Devon and Cornish countryside, walking and exploring is in her blood.
‘So often over these four years my feet have been itching for adventure and new experience, and not having the time or motivation to actually get out there has stopped me from discovering fresh places. I decided that to solve this problem I’d have to force myself out of the comfort zones, and place myself somewhere new and unfamiliar.’  

Jasmine’s design values are borne out of a love for diversion and playfulness, she designs for personal intricacies, curiosity, and her work often utilises digital technology interlinked with, and weighted by, semantic and poetic attachment.