Glasgow School of Art
Innovation School
Product Design
EVOLUTION OF MY PROTOTYPES AND MY MATERIAL RESEARCH
RICE
CLAY
PAPER
COTTON
TOUCH
I sarted to prototype with different material in aim to find different type of touch, to create differents feelings.
I asked two of my friend to test them, in order to see what kind of touch they were using for differents part of their face or body.
MÍNYMA JEWELRY
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The piece of jewelry was a ring at the beginning, but after reflection I chose to represent my collective intelligence database by a flower and her roots in reference to the network of fungus. So the more logical shape I could give to the jewel was the same as my C.I, because this jewel is the base of the data collection. I started to draw it, I did a first try in clay and I painted it black but if was too much. I did an other drawing, and I was happy about it but paper was not enough for a jewel so I decided to make it in clay, paper and some piece of thread.Futhermore I decided to paint it in green because of the semantics of flower and the fungus network, I wanted to have a colour which was understandable representation of nature.
MÍNYMA PRINTER & MESSAGE
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I wanted to create a small printer which was represented some of the values of my project, as sharing, receiving, giving. The semantics of hands are interesting for that, furthermore they are also a representation of the touch. I started to make one with other little 3D representation of a hand, a foot, and a face, but I changed my mind about my concept and I didn't need them anymore. The second and final one is just composed of the hand and its reserve of paper to print.
I wanted to print my message as shopping ticket.
I like their aesthetic, they are simple and efficient. I started to print on a simple printer paper and I understood that the touch of the paper was also a interesting part to develop in my reflexion. My second and third try were on a watercolor paper, softer and thicker.
I had the date of the message to had an other layer of legacy of my message. Theses poems could be keep as a memory of the correspondence.
The next step of my project was to prototypes each differents artefact I had to put in the kits.
I start by the glove, in plastic, paper, textile,and I finished by using a old I had in my room and I just re-transformed it.
I made the stress ball in fresh clay for my video, but the final aim was to have it n textile, with little plastic marble.
To create the scraf I sew cooton on one of my scarf. The cotton are representing the electronique sensors which are providing wait and warmness.
At this stage I just had to finish the last part of my concept which was the messenger kit. I wanted to represent the artefact which will communicate with all the other. I took inspiration of the project "Flulu", in one of our research card, and I created 12 little sensors in clay. In a further development I could imagine them in silicone.
