LO_11_Women Practitioners

In this week’s topic, I found a very interesting project called “ Clothing for Moderns” created by artist Lea Albaugh.

The link is here : http://www.instamatique.com/clothing-for-moderns.html
And here : https://www.hcii.cmu.edu/people/lea-albaugh

Lea Albaugh is a PhD student in HCI institute of CMU. This is not too much description on the web but I guess her major working field is Human Computer interaction. She is also an augmented fashion designer and game developer.
Her major studying field makes her project very interesting.
In this project, she mainly talked about women’s expression in public space, especially spaces prevailed by male leaders/supervisors. She uses cloth and actuators to build wearables that can potentially “speak”.
I think the general idea of this project is very crucial. As a woman, I frequently found myself judging my personal expression. Sometimes, I felt I speak too much in public and in a team work environment and sometimes I doubt myself speak too little in a conflict situation.
By writing this LO, I doubt males also do the same thing frequently. This is the reason I want to talk about this project. It reminds me, as a female, sometimes, expression itself is not only related to words, facial expressions and actions.
This project offers me a new look for my own situations.