Imagine a device allowing you to play and explore your phobia, and ultimately even enjoy having this phobia. Everyone experienced claustrophobia to some degree, as claustrophobia is not only the fear of enclosed places, but a fear of not having an easy escape route.

Thinking about claustrophobia and how blind people perceive their environment with their acute sense of hearing, I got interested in experimenting with the acoustic perception of places.

From my research I developed a product to help people escape claustrophobic situations. These proximity-sensing headphones make small spaces feel much larger than they are. Listening devices usually mask your environment with a soundtrack; the purpose of my device, however, is to create a new architechture and a sonic experience interacting with the environment.