One of my maker friends, Leon, was talking to me about how cool it would be to make an interactive display panel with animation and moving objects for Maker Faire. I thought it would be a great idea too, but then what would be the narrative? You can't just expect whirring objects to attract people, you needed to have an objective behind it. We didn't have the idea until we were having dinner with our friend Mel - she blurted "Hey, you could have it be part of Fashion Revolution Day". We were very excited and overwhelmed at the same time as we needed to quickly form a team to cover the electronics, design and animation as well as textile integration. Fortunately, Leon was very happy to implement the projection mapping and integrate it with the electronics (capacitive touch sensing), I was keen on the textile integration, and we managed to get students of the School of Digital Media and Infocomm Technology, Singapore Polytechnic to assist with the design and animation. Everything fell into place. Two months later, this is what we have!
The whole concept of the interactive was to inform viewers of what their sustainable fashion choices are - a corresponding animation would be played. The students were great and came up with a great design and accompanying animation (very hipster, I might add!). We are now onto the final stages and I am integrating the textiles into the design, and we still have to combine it with the electronics. Sneak peak of the animation is on my IG! Come down to take a look at it on the 24th April 4 - 7pm at the Hub Impact Singapore, 128 Prinsep Street. More details here.
The whole concept of the interactive was to inform viewers of what their sustainable fashion choices are - a corresponding animation would be played. The students were great and came up with a great design and accompanying animation (very hipster, I might add!). We are now onto the final stages and I am integrating the textiles into the design, and we still have to combine it with the electronics. Sneak peak of the animation is on my IG! Come down to take a look at it on the 24th April 4 - 7pm at the Hub Impact Singapore, 128 Prinsep Street. More details here.
What a great project, Agy!
ReplyDeleteAnd having students involved is really wonderful!. It's very interesting how fashion and technology are combining and coming up with wonderful projects.
I have Pinterest board "Wearable Tech" with very cool stuff about all this from all around the net, from fashion collections to particular DIY projects!
Congrats on the great collaboration and exhibition of your project!
Mariana
That looks incredible!!! Let me make sure I'm following you on IG as well.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing such an incredible project with us!