13. Implications and applications¶

Who I Am¶

I am a designer, educator, and maker, working across design, art, code, and fabrication.

My practice is all about making things—physically and digitally—and in understanding how materials, processes, tools, and systems shape objects and interactions. I am also interested in bridging the physical–digital gap and creating interactions that use the bridge to become more grounded and realistic.

I work extensively with:

Digital fabrication
Computational art and generative design
Craft processes
Material experimentation
Interactive electronics and wearables

Alongside my personal practice, I teach and design learning experiences around tangible products, emerging technologies, creative coding, object histories, product semantics, and data visualization. Education and making are deeply intertwined for me, and many of my projects evolve through teaching, workshops, and collaborative exploration.

Skillsets¶

Design, Code & Computation¶

Creative coding (p5.js, Processing)
Generative and algorithmic design (Grasshopper, Blender)
Parametric modelling (Fusion 360)
Data visualization
Web-page-based tools and interfaces

Digital Fabrication¶

Laser cutting
3D printing
Printing on fabric
CNC workflows
3D scanning and post-processing
Hybrid digital–physical workflows

Electronics, Interaction & Wearables¶

Physical computing
Sensors
E-textiles and wearables
Skin-based interfaces
Machine building

Materials & Craft¶

Paper as a material (folding, structural exploration)
Origami and folding systems, paper and beyond paper
Textile scaffolding and fabric hardening
Biomaterials and composites
Molding and casting techniques

Areas of Interest¶

Making things; hands-on exploration across materials and processes
Bridging the physical–digital divide
Digital fabrication (laser cutting, 3D printing, CNC)
Computational and generative design
Creative coding and procedural systems
Craft processes and their contemporary reinterpretation
Materials, material behavior, and material histories
Paper as a material
Origami, folding, and flat-to-structure transformations
Interactive objects and systems
Teaching through making and documentation
Machines and machine-making, specifically drawing and weaving machines

aAdded or strengthened during Fabricademy:

Skin electronics and on-body interfaces
Computational couture and printing on fabric
Biomaterials and biocomposites
Textile scaffolding and controlled structural systems
Wearables and body-based artifacts

My Fabricademy Journey¶

Strongest weeks (enjoyment, interest, outcomes)

Computational Couture — Translating algorithmic logic into printed-on-fabric structures was particularly satisfying.
Digital Bodies — Enjoyed scanning and laser cutting; strongest interest was in computational manipulation of scans.
Skin Electronics — Reinforced interest in the body as an interface rather than a data source.
Textile Scaffold — Folding, hardening, composites, and structure-through-material were key takeaways.

Also

E-textiles & Wearables — Conceptually strong; soft sensors and expressive outputs mattered more than polish.
Biomaterials — Interest in material behavior, translucency, fillers, and composites rather than recipes.
Soft Robotics — Conceptually exciting but practically challenging; ideas remain open.
Open Source Hardware — Machine ideas were more interesting than outcomes; failures were instructive.

And then

Open Source Circular Fashion — Material issues limited outcomes, but modular tessellations and volumetric ideas remain compelling.
Biochromes — Enjoyed digitization and visualization of swatches more than dyeing itself.

Project Concepts¶

Anti-Surveillance Skin and Wearable Interface System¶

Concept Description¶

The absurd and bizarre disguises in a futuristic Los Angeles add some serious character to the story.
From : The Private Eye. Source : DigitalAmerica.org

A set of skin interface patches and wearable elements that take inputs from the body and its actions, and convert/transmit them intentionally—by the wearer—into output visualisations and expressions. These may exist partly on the body (light, sound, haptics) and also on a screen, locally or remotely.

This project draws, in part, from speculative worlds such as Private Eye, where pervasive surveillance leads to cultures of masking and selective self-representation.

When being seen and not being seen are both data points, your only option is scramble and noise.

My work from Skin Interfaces

an abstract sketch by me

What¶

A modular platform of skin patches and wearables with user-defined input–output mappings, including a software/digital control interface.

I haven't crystallised my story or intent very fully yet; I feel I am circling around it but know it's within this overlap of surveillance, speculation, skin and wearable tech, craft, and art as a political statement.

Inspirations¶

References / Analogous Works¶

Duoskin : MIT Media labs

Fabri Alumni

Why¶

Surveillance has gone mainstream, from mandatory apps to mandatory dna profiling, face recognition to gait recognition
Should one always be available to be read
Explore anti-surveillance through expression, not encryption - this isn't a faraday cage or a tech solution
Enable masking and broadcasting emotion, body language, as choice and deliberate action

How¶

Skin interfaces and e-textile techniques
Biomaterial “false skins” and textile-scaffold mounts
Microcontrollers mapping bodily input to expressive output
Soft-robotics-based kinetic aspects (stretch goals)

Who¶

Designers, performers, educators, and individuals interested in bodily agency.

When¶

The Near Future

Where¶

India/Everywhere

Pros¶

Modular MVPs in multiple directions
Low fabrication bottlenecks

Cons & Caveats¶

Many precedents in wearables and skin interfaces
Should not become more "Decor"

Fabricademy Criteria¶

Wearable technology meets fashion
End-user programming
Personalization at service level
Craft × computation

Future Scope¶

Expanded expressive vocabularies, public installations, teaching toolkits.

Phases¶

Concept locking and definition
System architecture
Interface layer (on-body pieces)
Mapping layer (data → visuals)
Integration
Documentation and video