The Stimuli Mitigation Helmet (SMH) is a wearable device used by the neuro divergent nomads who inhabit earth in a distant future seeking to prevent overstimulation, and panic attacks. The SMH is a head covering that is secured to the face via a frame that protrudes outward 3/4 of a foot in front of the body, with an aperture type door. The space between the users face and the aperture is completely covered so that the user is isolated within the chamber, and has full control over the opening of the aperture which controls stimuli intake to the eyes, nose, and mouth. The aperture/iris design of the door allows different degrees of being open, set by the user to their preference. 

The original design of this piece was a more traditional helmet shape with various small openings and access valves to the different parts of the head, and later evolved into an isolated piece with one central opening. The placement of the aperture, and the frame of the piece was inspired by Walter Pichlers “portable living room” sculpture. Taking from the theme of an isolated user with one single source of stimuli, in the case of the “portable living room” it was a TV feeding specific media, and in the case of the SMH, it’s one source of visual or respiratory intake.