Zone barriers are quietly present in all our lives.
Every day we walk through passages, doors or hallways. We move between rooms and buildings. Our mission is to transform the interaction between zone barriers and people, from mere mechanical action into an emotional one.
the earliest locks were created over 6000 years ago. The first metal lock is said to have been made by the architect, sculptor and inventor Theodorus of Samos in ancient Greece, roughly a century before Socrates walked the earth.
Zone barriers are in frequent use, some zones by plenty of people at different times. Until today, zone barriers and access control have been merely a mechanical process. Locks are present to control who can physically enter a space or not. Digital technologies does something similar in having user names and passwords to access content online. As such, barriers carry the potential of being a user access point – for opening both physical and digital spaces.
New technologies open completely new affordances in how we interact with the spaces around us.
In other words: we aim to ease people's movement in space through digital technologies, ensuring secure systems and personal privacy.