Saying goodbye can be painful. 
However, umbrellas could provide portability, way-finding, privacy to engage with environmental information, serendipity, and a sensation of embodiment. In this project, we use the umbrella as a purposeful object to carry a meaningful narrative of our surroundings through the co-creation of memory and the recollection of memory.

Concept Ideation
Functionality of Ella
Prototyping
Prototype

Project co-created by Jenny Yi, Jessie Mindel, Feifei Shen, Miles Baird, Cherry Wu

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