FINAL PROJECT

FINAL PROJECT PROPOSAL 01

Here is my initial concept sketch. Our mentor is Ohad from FABlab Israel and in our discussions we agreed to use a common theme, namely "Make something you can play with". The idea I am drawing from therefore is to have a level of participation / a participatory design approach between the textile / garment and the user / audience. I plan to make a textile garment and give it an interactive function. The skills honed and acquired during the Academy will enable me to execute the task and push my boundaries.

In our mentoring session today our mentor - OHAD - discussed listing components and really thinking about the various elements we want to incorporate. The project proposal is definitely interactive and therefore will require INPUT, OUTPUT and CONTROLLER as well as PHYSICAL elements. I am inspired by a project which was done at MIT by Kelly Dobson, it is really awesome!



So the basic elements that I am contemplating can be seen here below. It is not really like the screambag project you see in the video above, but the inspiration is the idea of the bag and how one can rethink a garment and it's capabilities and functionality using sensors, motion and sound. I am also inspired by Imogen Heap's Mi.Mu gloves which you can see in the below video. I plan to incorporate sound and motion into my final project so both of these videos are really interesting content to me.