We defined locker as the channel to communicate this information and facilitate interactions between people. Messages that are displayed on the exterior of the locker invite everyone to look at while what’s inside are only accessible to the owner. We identify the locker as a personal/private space within this public open studio setting and want to use it as a new channel of communicating things that are more intimate in a slower, more ambient and physical way.
If it is someone’s birthday, their locker will light up throughout the day. People who notice the signal can use their phones to create digital written blessings and send them to the birthday person’s locker via thermal receipt printer inside the locker. When the birthday person opens the locker, SURPRISE! They will receive a pile of printed blessings. TADA!