The Friends, Hosts and Parasites

explores symbiotic relationships with technology inspired by nature, growth and survival. These relationships mimic behavior from Nature in order to design technological systems that can be more efficiently adopted and used.

The assumption is that the intimacy and the dependency inherent in a symbiotic relationship will resonate in the user as fundamentally human and as such, create a stronger and more natural bond with the piece of technology, facilitating its adoption by the user. Wearable technology is an interesting field to develop these types of relationships because of the physical proximity between the wearable and the wearer, between the technology and the body.