Portfolio
Palpatine
Product Design
2018
Exhibited at:
Rome Maker Faire, 2018
Bilbao Maker Faire, 2018
Design Collision in Milan, 2019
Copenaghen Maker Festival, 2019
Festival dell'Amore, Triennale Milano, 2019
Palpatine is an open-source bra that looks forward to creating new habits and awareness in young women about breast self-examination and changing the stressful perception that it has. The bra is designed to grow and reshape with you, made by laser cutting technique it uses an auxetic structure to fit into different sizes and cups. This structure suggests to the users the correct movements for breast self-examination. To better perform the self-examination we incorporated a set of instructions inside the bra to guide the user.
Breast cancer is one of the leading causes of death in our country - â…“ of all the diagnosed cancers - although much has been done to tackle this disease we can still do a lot to prevent it. In 80% of cases, women over the age of fifty are affected and prevention must be the first weapon to fight it. Breast self-examination should not be experienced as an anxiety-producing moment but as a gesture of prevention that demonstrates voluntary participation in self-care. For this reason, Palpatine is designed for all those girls that never approached breast self-examination. Preventing breast cancer is simple and can be done comfortably at home.
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Palpatine is a project developed with the collaboration of Polifactory within the Distributed Design Market Platform project co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
