Looking Outwards-03

https://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/projects/albums/kinematics-dress-1/

https://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/projects/albums/kinematics-cloth/

Kinematic Dress

This project was created by Nervous System (Jessica Rosenkrantz and Jesse Louis-Rosenberg) in 2014. They created and used a parametric body modeling software along with another digital tool to digitally create the pattern for this dress and then used a complex physics algorithm to digitally “fold” the dress to print in one piece. The result is a 3D printed dress that can move and flow with you. Somehow they were able to take a material so rigid and structured and transform it into something fluid and soft. It reminded me of looking at a marble statue that was carved to show soft flowing fabric. This is not only a huge achievement for design, but also an achievement for physical objects/materials and the ways that we can use them in the future. I admire their focus on materials and passion for taking a material and transforming it into something totally different. This project inspires me to rethink materials and the possibilities for what they can do. I don’t fully understand the algorithms and computation they used to create this project, but I appreciate their user focused approach through the parametric body modeling application. They are both inspired by patterns found in nature and that shines through the patterning in the dress and the algorithm for how each of the pieces hinge on one another. Patterning in nature can teach us a lot and I admire how they utilized that in this piece.