1. State of the art, project management and documentation#
This week I started to getting used to the documentation process and worked on defining my final project idea.
assignment#
According to last year’s Textile Academy Handbook, this week’s assignment is as follows,
- Build a personal site describing you, your portfolio and motivation of attending the Fabricademy
- Create all the links for all the classes and connect them to the wiki
- Include a small tutorial on how you designed your website
- Plan and sketch a potential final project and add it to your website.
- Upload it to the class archive
build a personal site#
I feel more comfortable with HTML code than Markdown because I went through with Fab Academy documentation, but as in rome do as the romans do.I read through Markdown tutorials.
I downloaded my gitlab repository to local computer. After I edited index.md, I uploaded it to my repo. I used a editor, Brackets, with a plugin, Markdown Preview. The editor can show both a source and a preview. The preview is updated when the document is edited.
potential final project#
Koinobori#
Koinobori, carp-shaped windsocks, is flown in Japana to celebrate Children’s Day. These windsocks are made of paper, cloth or other nonwoven fabric. There was a koinobori workshop at FAB14.
I think koinobori’s scales look like cylindrical origami pattern (so-called Yoshimura Pattern).
Details are unknown…
(image source: wikipedia)
(image source: SYNTHESIS OF RIGID-FOLDABLE CYLINDRICAL POLYHEDRA (pdf)
reconfigurable striped shirt#
I love striped pattern shirts. If one shirt could reconfigure its width of stripes and spaces between diffrent colors, I’m not going to need another one.
Again, details are unknown…
Kimono#
During Edo period(1603-1867), Japan was a sustainable society, and kimono is totally circular fashion explained in an image below. I believe that the combination of Kimono and circular fashion is a good motif for final project, but again and again, details are unknown.
(image source: Daiwa House)
