Domesticated

Domestication isn't taming, it's the undirected, cumulative result of two things changing each other over time. Domesticated applies that framework to domestic interfaces: the switches, knobs, and panels that structure daily life at home. Each of the three wall-mounted objects is derived from one of these interfaces and fabricated in wood-finished PLA, embedding ambient light and haptics. Moving across the series, the relationship shifts from force, to calibration, to anticipation, tracing how touch behavior becomes less conscious and more involuntary the longer we live with a machine. The project draws on Donna Haraway's cyborg theory, the extended mind thesis, and self-domestication research to argue that neither humans nor interfaces are directing this process.

As interfaces grow less physical and more anticipatory — voice, gesture, AI systems that adapt to us in real time — the question continues. What is our next evolution?