A study in making, agency, comfort and authorship — SOLACE invites users to rebuild presence and dignity through their own hands.
Outstanding Project: Design for the Other 90%
SOLACE
Most “solutions” we encounter today focus on survival, productivity, and efficiency. We either move faster, optimise harder, or consume better. Yet much of life happens in the in-between — in corridors of waiting, in the commute, in the quiet rituals before work, in the stillness after it. Those liminal moments shape us just as much as the big ones, and they often go unnoticed.
SOLACE grew from the belief that care doesn’t have to be heroic. Sometimes, it’s simply having the right texture under your fingertips, or a garment that feels like it listens to you than instructs you. It’s the choice to wrap, fasten, adjust — not because you must, but because the act itself represents presence.
In the spirit of reconciliation Monash University acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
