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António Quina Fernandes

MA work

MA work

Remote Intimacy

I am about experience, understanding and feeling. Objects are experiences, and my experimentally driven life and work at the RCA have been built around this concept.

Am I in your space? Or are you in mine? Designing for an object’s ‘personal space’, and our perception of when we are intruding into it, can have fascinating outcomes. I have explored how we feel for the objects we interact with, to seep this experience and intuition into our daily interactions.

Info

Info

  • MA Degree

    School

    School of Design

    Programme

    MA Innovation Design Engineering, 2010

  • Remote Intimacy

    I am about experience, understanding and feeling. Objects are experiences, and my experimentally driven life and work at the RCA have been built around this concept.

    Am I in your space? Or are you in mine? Designing for an object’s ‘personal space’, and our perception of when we are intruding into it, can have fascinating outcomes. I have explored how we feel for the objects we interact with, to seep this experience and intuition into our daily interactions.

  • Degrees

  • BEng, Mechatronics, King's College London, 2006
  • Experience

  • Design research internship, slowLab, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2009; Design engineer, CEIIA-CE, Porto, Portugal, 2007/8; Web designer, Arquigest Lda, Lisbon, Portugal, 2005
  • Exhibitions

  • Space Hotel, Turbine Hall, Imperial College London, London, 2009; Salão Autoclássico, Exponor, Porto, Portugal, 2007