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13. Implications and applications

A picture of a Japanese dragon

Weekly Assignment * Document the concept, sketches, references also to artistic and scientific publications * Create an Ultra-personalised product service systems (UPPSS) for your final project * Map the potential stakeholders * Explore personalisation at all the different levels * EXTRA POINT: Interview your potential users/ target group about your concept, quantify results * "What You'll Need" Keep an open mind!

Some Questions Presented During Lecture given by Oscar Tomico Oscar Tomico lecture made open my mind to new ideas, new discoveries and new challenges. Some question made sound on my mind and force me think about my final project. What role do materials play in your project? How can you explore form through generative design? How can you rethinking shape/fit/production? How can you rethink current aesthetics with various fabrication methodologies and what new insights does that bring? The moment you put something on your body, how do you change, how does your relation with people and your surroundings change? The moment you put something on, how does it become social and political?

It really made me think and think . Here's the results!

The Weeks that Most Interested Me:

Since the start of Fabricademy I've been living a roller coaster. I have to say I genuinely found every week challenging in its own way, taking me out of my confort zone but I loved it. Thinking on the subjects where my interests really resides in are wearables, computational couture, biochromes, biofabricating materials and e-textiles. But being honest I would like to use all of them because I really enjoyed them. Crafts of Interest 

•   Weaving: Weaving is a craft that has historically expanded for centuries, being rich and impactful y many ways, color, texture, formas, designs, utility. Weaving might honestly be one of the most important crafts especially. I've woven before on a traditional pedal loom and it is an art that looks simply but it isn’t.

•   Parametric Design: This was a new world for me. I am not an expert on Rhino and had no knowledge on Grasshopper, but lookig through all the things you can achieved, made my mind blow away. I learned about computational couture, 3D printing on fabric. Amazing! I’ve learnt that you can take inspiration from Architecture or Nature, create design parametrically, with repeating shapes and geometries. I learned you can make your own clothes, cut patterns on a laser cutter, and 3D print designs on your fabric.

•   Biochromes and Biofabrication: During these weeks we learned to dye and to fabricate our own materials and dyes. It was interesting and I am intrigued an the bacterial like Kombucha. I hope I’m able to use it on my project. Try to adapt different materials and do some Origami or Sashiko embroidery on to them.

•   E-Textiles: Even though I ‘am not familiar at all with electronics and I know it is not something I domain, but I would like to use it on my project, even though I know I would need a lot of help.

•   Past Work + Navigating Ideas: Before Fabricademy came along, all my experience was on making clothes, haute couture, come artisan weaving and innovation on patternmaking, patchwork, but the relation of fashion with the digital technology is completely new for me.

In some sense, I'd like to continue exploring one of those items but in a different form.

Now, I've always struggled with project ideation. But I do know that I have to pay attention on what I stood out and adapt all the other things in an innovation, inspirational and transformative way.

Research & Concept

< "Where the deep breath of the wind meets the rising soul of the water."

A picture of a robot, a chest and a hand

For my project I would like to join two cultures that have a lot of history, that mythological and philosophycally have thinks alike. These cutures are the Mexican and the Japanese. There is the Japanese Dragon (ryū or tatsu) and the Feathererd Serpant (Quetzalcoatl) of Mexico.

I digged into both cultures and I discovered that they have a lot of similarities that can combined perfectly between each other. I made a small presentation trying to anwer the questions: Who, What, Why, How and Where.

Hope you like it!

At the end of the presentation you can find all the references.