treji
Meditation & Mindfulness / Collectible Design / 2025
Problem
Contemporary design often prioritizes function and aesthetics over emotional or introspective experience. In the realm of mindfulness, physical tools tend to be over-technologized, reducing presence to performance. There’s a disconnect between what’s designed and what truly supports inner awareness in everyday life.
Solution
treji explores how physical objects can act as quiet companions in mindfulness practice—designed not to instruct, but to invite reflection, slowness, and embodied presence. Based on personal experience and autoethnographic research, the collection consists of three sculptural objects that blend meditation with design: a mirror for self-reflection, a sound object, and a breathing chair.
Pause, face yourself
A rotating mirror designed to invite stillness, not vanity. It transforms a common object into a ritual space—encouraging users to slow down, observe their emotional state, and encounter themselves beyond surface-level appearances.
A tactile sound instrument inspired by rainsticks and breath cycles. As it rotates, grains move inside, producing a gentle rhythm that anchors awareness. It doesn't demand attention—just offers it, helping guide breath and calm.
Listen without control
Listen without control
A tactile sound instrument inspired by rainsticks and breath cycles. As it rotates, grains move inside, producing a gentle rhythm that anchors awareness. It doesn't demand attention—just offers it, helping guide breath and calm.
“ode.1” transcends typical furniture design. It’s a collectible object and sculptural installation, built to function and provoke thought—connecting past and present in a physical form that speaks to urban identity and transformation.
A Furniture That Remembers
“ode.1” transcends typical furniture design. It’s a collectible object and sculptural installation, built to function and provoke thought—connecting past and present in a physical form that speaks to urban identity and transformation.
A Furniture That Remembers
Reclaim Brutalism
The table legs, constructed from raw rebar, channel brutalist architecture and industrial authenticity. Their exposed structure pays homage to the city's infrastructural backbone while inviting reinterpretation of Soviet-era aesthetics through a contemporary lens.
Feel your breath
through form
A sculptural chair that subtly supports and encourages diaphragmatic breathing. Its shape helps align posture and brings attention to the physical movement of breath—quietly engaging body awareness through use.
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Value that was created
treji was a deeply personal and process-driven project. It taught me how design can function not as problem-solving, but as emotional translation. I explored autoethnography as a creative method, developed skills in reflective prototyping, and learned to trust slow, intuitive design. It deepened my understanding of how objects can act as mediators between mind, body, and space—not through instruction, but through presence.
Dominykas Vascila
Vilnius Academy of Arts
2025