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While Nothing Happens by Ernesto Neto In this installation piece suspended from the ceiling, lycra netting sacs contain spices, including pepper, cumin, cloves, ginger and curcuma, creating shapes similar almost to stalactites. These aromatic sacs combined with the soft material nature of the lycra invites the viewer to become participants and to touch the sacs.
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The Egg Chair https://www.forbes.com/sites/amandalauren/2019/09/30/egg-chairs-the-furniture-trend-that-never-cracks/?sh=59b74d93537a I decided to approach this project from a product design lens by inspecting quintessential furniture designs. The Egg Chair was the most interesting and common piece that I found, and has an interesting purpose that is apt for soft robotic adaptations. Designed in 1958 by Arne Jacobsen, the Egg Chair was
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The project I chose to explore is Geemo: a flexible modular toy with magnetic limbs that attract and repel each other in unpredictable ways. The creator Cas Holman was inspired by natural patterns and was interested in designing units forming irregular patterns. Additionally, the magnetic limbs were left unmarked and uncolored because she felt there
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Throughout the course of this class, my interests have varied from scaling robots down to microscopic sizes to bio-inspired soft robots to rehabilitative wearables. I wanted to combine some of these ideas and put them in the context of artistic expression – cyborg botany. Continuing from class discussions on plants, I remembered Edwin Tinney Brewster’s
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Project: Al Bahar Towers (https://architizer.com/projects/al-bahr-towers/) Abu Dhabi (Completed June 2012) The Al Bahar Towers’ dynamic facade design drastically reduces the building’s direct solar exposure, internal heat gain, energy expenditure, and elemental damages such as sand erosion. The facade is an external curtain wall, offset from the glazing by two meters. The design of the panels
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Refik Anadol: Unsupervised—Machine Hallucinations What would a machine mind dream of after “seeing” the vast collection of The Museum of Modern Art? In other words, if the corpus of images of the MoMA collection had been accomplished by a single artist, what would their dreams look like? STATEMENT OF ARTIST INTENT Unsupervised is a meditation on
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We all live in stories and imaginary landscapes superimposed on the real. We use these objects to communicate who we are. By choosing the objects we own and desire, we create fictional worlds in which to live and extend our identities into countless new environments. The artist wanted to incorporate machines and kinetics into the
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Fashion Bio-Inspired Wearable Robotics for Fashion Technology: SoftVoss This was an exhibit created by Dr. Yin Yu for the 2022 San Diego Design Week. In the video Dr. Yin Yu shares how to design a bird-feather-inspired wearable fashion technology with soft material, highlighting why biomimicry design in soft robotics creates engaging human-computer interaction empowering designers’
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Interest 1: Self-folding structures Interest 2: Semi-“Conscious” Kinetic Sculptures

http://amorphicrobotworks.org/interactive-birds The Interactive Birds installation by Chico MacMurtrie at Amorphic Robot Works uses Inflatable Robots to create the wing-like structures of birds. What I find cool about this installation is the concept and the underlying theme that influenced the programming, rather than the actual installation itself. The “birds” are made using white fabrics that hang
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