“Longing for Touch” is an investigation of what makes us drawn to tactile interactions. With this project and essay I am focussing on the importance of our haptic sense and draw attention to the experiences we lack, in a world where our experiences are getting digitalized to a greater extent. I am investigating how phenomena such as pleasure and aesthetics are linked together and how they can be used to foster physical interaction. I have a fascination of how we as humans are drawn towards disgust, and I’m interested in the tension these contradicting feelings create. In this essay I present research, that shows disgust both revolts and attracts, and I go over why disgust is an effective tool to capture attention. In the studio, I’m transforming my findings from the research into physical objects. By focusing on aesthetics while playing with elements of disgust – I can create objects we are drawn to touch. / <p>Two images have been removed for copyright reasons. The source information for the images are kept - in order for reader to access the images on their own.</p>