Works: New Textiles Coursework Complete

This semester I had the opportunity to study at the MIT Media Lab with Leah Buechley. The course was an investigation of embedding technologies into soft materials: a space I had naively marginalized to fashion. The challenge for me throughout the work was to avoid an aesthetic of technology embedded in fabric, something I feel is often relied upon as an end in itself. It seems more interesting to think about how this paradigm of soft computing effects the way we interact with technology at a tactile and symbiotic level. My resulting projects are all available in work.

Another aspect of this is how wearing our technology impacts the social discourse of uniforms and dress. The US Military is keying on an interesting aspect of this – the language of technology as strength – but I wonder what the future civilian interpretations might be. The collision of fashion, research, and proven military technologies in the public market will surely change the way we engage at the human scale.

Works: The Swoop and GSD Studioworks

My third semester design project for the Harvard College of Arts and Sciences was selected for the GSD Studioworks exhibition and the model will (hopefully) be featured in the school’s lobby next semester. The Swoop, so dubbed by a classmate, is sited on Church Street in Harvard Square and provides 300 undergraduate beds. More information and media for the project are available here.

Works: Um, Cities and Blocks

A animation made for Chris Hoxie’s Immersive Environments course at the GSD. I performed animation and rendering for the over 15000 frames of the full 720p version. Tools used: Rhino, 3dsMax, After Effects.