Based off my research task this week I have developed some options for my final project.

1. Identity to Go – Portable Home Kit

Identity to Go is a travel design kit that explores how identity and belonging can be sustained while moving through temporary spaces. The kit is a compact packing cube shaped like a small house, symbolising the idea of carrying home wherever you go. Inside, travellers would find three items: a privacy curtain for the beds, a clip-on bed organiser for practical storage, and a portable comfort light. Together, these pieces transform hostels and capsule pods into spaces of comfort. The project blends practicality with emotional design, proposing that stability doesn’t come from staying in one place, but from the ability to make any place feel like home.

2. AR Pop-Up Home – Augmenting Temporary Spaces

This project reimagines how design can use technology to create belonging in transient spaces. AR Pop-Up Home is a conceptual augmented reality experience that allows travellers to “scan” a temporary room, hostel bed, or capsule pod with their phone, revealing a personalised room. Users can project chosen colours, patterns, or scan in sentimental objects into their environment, creating a digital version of “home” wherever they are. The project questions how we construct identity through technology and social media, exploring the blurred line between authentic comfort and curated experience.

3. The Patch Project – Symbols and Belonging

The Patch Project explores identity through small, portable symbols of belonging. It proposes a system of custom-designed patches that travellers can attach to bags, clothing, or gear, a personal, wearable language of comfort and individuality. Each patch represents an idea linked to travel: safety, freedom, privacy, connection. The designs could draw inspiration from hostel culture, neurodiverse accessibility, or cultural symbolism, becoming both decorative and functional. This project would visualise how people construct their identity.

4. The Thneed of Travel – Adaptive Identity Blanket

Inspired by Dr. Seuss’s Thneed, this project reimagines a single, endlessly adaptable travel object designed to meet the emotional and practical needs of people in motion. The Thneed of Travel is part blanket, part towel, part bag, part curtain, and entirely about belonging. Made from lightweight, foldable material, it transforms to suit different moments of transit, it can hang across a bunk for privacy using small clips, fold into a pillow for bus journeys, or clip onto a backpack for easy carrying. On the beach, hidden corners to fill with sand keep it secure on the beach. Each Thneed is customisable: travellers can select colours, attach modular patches, or add symbolic graphics that express their sense of self. Over time, it becomes both a comfort tool and a personal archive, carrying the marks of where you’ve been and who you’ve been there with. This project looks at how design can bring comfort and identity to people who are always moving. It highlights how modern life often means living without permanence, and how small, thoughtful objects can make that easier. The Thneed of Travel is not just practical, it’s about belonging, creativity, and the feeling of home you can carry with you wherever you go.