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Noom: a living interface for menstrual awareness

NOOM is a living interface that translates invisible biological rhythms into colour, exploring new relations between bodies, technology and matter.

NOOM: a living interface for menstrual awarness — © Photo: Rafaela Cecconi / NOOM

NOOM is a wearable patch that transforms menstrual phases into colour. Using electrochromic bacterial cellulose, it turns invisible biological changes into a visual language, exploring more intuitive relationships between bodies and technology.

Making the Invisible Visible

Noom is a wearable patch that transforms menstrual phases into colour.

Using a new electrochromic bacterial cellulose interface, the project turns invisible biological changes into a visual language that can be worn on the body.

Part health technology and part personal accessory, NOOM invites users to engage with their menstrual cycle in a more intuitive and expressive way. Rather than relying on screens, graphs or notifications, the patch communicates through colour, making biological information immediate, personal and easy to understand.

By combining living materials and electronics, the project explores how future wearables might help us build more meaningful relationships with our bodies and the invisible processes that shape everyday life.

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About Rafaela Cecconi

Rafaela Cecconi is a Brazilian architect, urbanist, and biodesigner exploring the intersection of living systems, material intelligence, and human perception. Her multidisciplinary practice investigates how materials might mediate relationships between humans and the invisible biological worlds that continuously shape our everyday life, questioning how design can move beyond representation to become an active form of communication between species, environments, and matter.

A skin patch — © Photo: Rafaela Cecconi / NOOM

Skin Patch Architecture — © Photo: Rafaela Cecconi / NOOM

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