Having flirted with modern inconveniences, Object Solutions broaches the most intimate realm of human experience: love. Love, Optimized is a multimedia experience that envisions the high-tech future of romantic relationships – with a dark, satiric twist. Couples enjoy only the rewards of romance and none of its obstacles, having outsourced those to our laboratory. With each new obstacle, they need only obtain the designated Object Solution.

The diligent NeurAlign orchestrates your romantic success while the two of you sleep soundly at the first date dinner table. With your brains comfortably entangled in its electrode network, the NeurAlign sends evocative nerve impulses between you to determine your romantic potential. The experience calibrates your nervous systems to amplify your points of greatest harmony at a fraction of the standard time.

The TouchTrainer is a navigation system for your hands across the terrain of your lover's body, where the journey is just as critical as the destination. The built-in Corporal Positioning System (CPS) provides reliable directions, routing hands to locations pre-requested by each lover. Both participants now know precisely where their partners prefer to be touched—and how.

With the Intimatum (Intimate Utility Meter) your smart home becomes a stakeholder in your ongoing romance. The system administers your home services—from high-speed internet to basic drinking water—granting their access based on your intimacy frequency with your partner. Abundance of intimacy brings continuous utilities. Absence risks gradual shutdown.

The Ring Finger Spotlight is a micro-drone with a mission: to illuminate and document the ring on your finger at all times—or, as circumstance will dictate, its absence. The device is a satellite accessory, hovering over your hand while you complete scheduled activities. Its everlasting ray of light bestows cinematic brilliance upon your finger, while adapting to the many lighting scenarios of your eclectic life.

This month, the project is on view at the MIT School of Architecture and Planning, with the opening April 15. In the exhibition and book, we push technological solutionism to its logical conclusion: Couples outsource their every obstacle to Object Solutions. The series is provocative, and we aim to raise questions as well as eyebrows.

With the proliferation of apps and services for romantic relations, we see design fiction as a productive part of the conversation about the future of technology, and the future of love.

Visit Object Solutions at the MIT Keller Gallery April 15-May 6

Learn More About This Projectx