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Theo Jansen’s Strandbeest – Jennifer Shin

Dutch artist Theo Jansen makes these kinetic sculptures called “strandbeest.” They are made from yellow plastic tubes and are able to mimic the movement of a leg powered…

Silvia Fado – Pneumatic hydraulics

Yumeng Zhuang Kinetic Traces is a collection of women’s high heels designed by Silvia Fado, bringing high-end fashion aesthetics and high-performance sports footwear together. What feature of the…

Wearable Haptic Pneumatic Device for Creating the Illusion of Lateral Motion on the Arm | Jasmine

Link: http://viterbik12.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Culbertson_Wearable-Haptic-Pneumatic-Device-for-Creating-the-Illusion-of-Lateral-Motion-on-the-Arm.pdf Synopsis: This paper presented a wearable sleeve with 6 pneumatic pouches that actuated in sequence to create a “stroking” sensation for the wearer, with applications in…

bioLogic’s Living Textiles | Jesse Wallace

BioLogic’s Living Textile is a project from MIT’s Media Lab that uses 3D printing technology to make active and actuating “second skin”, which in the context of kinetic…

PNEU-SKIN, A Haptic Social Interface with Inflatable Fabrics – dcastleb

This research project by Yujie Wang from MIT and Marcela Godoy from NYU Shanghai explores how to incorporate pneumatic haptic interfaces to change a garment based on social…

Kinetic Electronic Garments and Expressive Fashion

Precedent Research 2 By: Natalia Santiago Kukkukia and Vilkas: Kinetic Electronic Garments and Expressive Fashion In this paper Joanna Berzowska and Marcelo Coelho from XSLab in Concordia University…

Breadth Animation – Isabel Xu

The samples evolve from three operation words: “tumbling”, “ blossoming” and “expanding”. Starting with the operation word “tumbling’, I experiment with attaching inflatables on a rolled paper. Taking…

Breath Animations

Carolyn Youstra Willow Structure cardboard flap with pneumatic hinge Materials cardboard, plastic bag, straw, duct tape, fabric The goal of this design was to make an organic material…

Breath Animation – Karen Abruzzo

Sample 1 For my first sample, I decided to start with something simple. I made an air pouch and taped eyeglass straps to it. Quickly inflating and deflating…

Breadth Animation – Jennifer Shin

I saw this project as a two-part question of figuring out the fabric and the movement. For the first one, I wanted to focus on the fabric and…