Titchy is a research and design studio exploring how we interact with data in our own homes.
Our practice is principally interested in the use, organisation and flow of information in our homes, and how its designed, communicated and understood for our daily lives.
Straddling the boundaries between art, design and technology we create diverse digital and physical information objects, infused with data and imbued with meaning.
People don’t just eat, sleep and relax in their homes. They party, love, cry and pray. Learn, work, exercise and play. Its where they spend time with friends or hide from strangers, keep their stuff, look after their pets and bring up their kids. Behind closed doors they are themselves.
We investigate and research real life in homes, in all its beautiful messiness. Collecting and untangling data, visualising and prototyping; to help understand and improve our relationship with information.
We believe data makes us more alive, more human, it can help us discover different narratives and challenge our perspectives. We believe the impersonality of data can be challenged, that data can be conveyed in a human-centred, personal, and natural manner and that we can reconnect people to their physical environment.
Why would you want data strapped to your face? Why would you want to be glued to a screen? When we’re alive to our environment we receive information with all our senses. Why shouldn’t we at home? If we liberate data from screens, we can bring homes to life in new and remarkable ways.
Our work often leads us to develop innovative and speculative approaches to information communication. Experimenting with how we can use all our senses to learn, interact and understand information, in abstract and tactile ways other than numbers or graphs.
Our work is multi-disciplinary and spans research, print, textiles, product, sculpture, light, furniture, jewellery, tangibles, film, interaction, smell, sound and immersive experiences. We aim to help people collect, visualise, understand and display data in their own homes, supporting real life in all its movement and chaos.
We work independently but also collaboratively with like-minded artists, brands and organisations to develop, explore and communicate information through creatively focused research, thinking, prototyping and design.
