Telephoneboxing Tokyo Designer's Week 9-13 Oct. 2003 Telephoneboxing was chosen by the audience as the best Container of Tokyo Designer's Week 2003 Telephoneboxing outline Telephoning has lost its physicality; it has literary become weightless. The smaller the telephone gets, the easier it is to communicate, anytime, anywhere, with anyone. In an overcrowded city such as Tokyo, mobile phoning requires discretion to prevent disturbing others. On the trains, people are fervently sending messages, while in the streets and restaurants, they are whispering softly in their hand palms. What would communication mean if a phone call would become an extremely physical action? When dialing a number requires a lot of concentration and words need to be exclaimed?

Telephoneboxing is top sport "Telephoneboxing" is an installation which explores the borders of communication. In a 20ft container, 10 buttons are attached to the walls. The buttons look like boxing balls and that is exactly what they are. In order to make an international phone call, one puts on boxing gloves and hits the buttons to dial a number. When a connection is made, one has to stand in one specific spot and speak loudly in order to be heard. The answer can be heard on a spot a few meters further into the container. The calling person will automatically adjust the level of communication to his or her eagerness to talk and/or to his or her physical condition. note: Telephoneboxing offers only international calls which are generously sponsored by Brastel.

TelephoneBoxing is music Each button makes a different sound, which blasts out of the speakers in the back wall of the container. The buttons are a sound machine and the container is the sound box.