Biography
Maria Chiara Toncich studied painting and obtained her undergraduate degree in New Art Technologies at the Venice Academy of Fine Arts. In 2004, she won a one-year scholarship, the Erasmus Programme, at Berlin’s University of the Arts (UDK). By April of 2010, she graduated from IUAV with a graduate degree in Visual and Multimedia Communication, specializing in Interaction Design. 


Description
For each house we used different materials: ceramic, paper and plexiglass.
All is made by ourselves.

Communication objective
Today, just by picking up the mobile phone we can call our friends, located in areas all around the world. Liaison offers the possibility of keeping in touch with someone we find special in a more poetic and less intrusive way. It consists of a pair of interactive houses for two people sentimentally connected, which subtly suggests a metaphor for domestic intimacy. There were three versions developed: paper, ceramic and plexi-glass, each one with its own character and behavior.

Tools used
We used Adobe Photoshop to create the gif images, in order to understand the behavior of our little houses and to modify each picture. We used Adobe InDesign to build all of the presentations, and Adobe Illustrator to create the flyers and images related to the visual communication of the project, including packaging, label, and presentations. Adobe Premier Pro was used to edit the video scenarios.

www.interaction-venice.com/projects/iuav08-09Lab2/projects/liaison