"The Astronaut's Amulet is a pocket-sized capsule for keepsakes that travel beyond Earth, created by designer Aleksa Milojevic. The project examines how memory, ritual, and personal experience can endure in the context of space exploration, positioning intimate, human-centered design within an emerging space-technology discourse. The amulet is a slender, compact object, small enough to be held between the fingertips. Its unique unlocking mechanism is intentionally calibrated to work intuitively only in microgravity."
"By opening, it becomes a deliberate puzzle on Earth but a natural gesture in space: its two-step interlocking system disengages only when the object is fully released. Any attempt to hold or brace it keeps it locked. In microgravity, the user must spin the amulet, release it to float freely, and retrieve it once it snaps open. Only through this uninterrupted, choreographed motion does the object reveal the keepsakes it protects, turning the act of access into a spatial ritual."
"When centrifugal force releases the interlocking parts, the amulet opens to reveal two concealed chambers. These compartments can hold small mementos such as notes, locks of hair, or other symbolic relics carried off-world. Once unlocked, the outer shells, fitted with glass magnifying lenses, align with the inner core of the amulet. As they shift into place, engraved images on the inner surface come into focus, allowing the viewer to see them enlarged and in detail."
The Astronaut's Amulet is a slender, fingertip-sized capsule that stores small mementos for travel beyond Earth. Its two-step interlocking mechanism remains locked when held but disengages only when the object is fully released in microgravity. In use, a user spins and releases the amulet so it floats and snaps open, transforming access into a choreographed spatial ritual. Centrifugal force separates the interlocking parts to reveal two concealed chambers for notes, locks of hair, or other symbolic relics. Outer shells with glass magnifying lenses align with an inner core so engraved images come into detailed focus, reimagining a traditional locket for zero gravity.
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