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RECENT WORK

Project |01 THIS AND THAT: A FUNGAL TALE
 
In this children's story of cause and effect, one action begets another and a connected forest comes to life. Animated by pop up mechanisms and watercolored on handmade mushroom paper, this story simply and enchantingly reveals the power and magic of mycelium.
 
 
Concept Development, Narrative, Art Direction and Fabrication
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Concept Map

Concept Map

I made a concept map to gather all of the vast facets of story making and fungal properties.

The Narrative: "You Build This"

The Narrative: "You Build This"

The first page starts by anchoring the plot to an experience children understand, playing with sand and shovels.

Pop-up Agouti

Pop-up Agouti

All tree species and animals were selected after in depth research of the Brazilian Rainforest. Here the agouti, a native to the Brazilian Rainforest is about to unearth a Brazil Nut.

The Telling of the Story

The Telling of the Story

The story is told with all listeners gathered and actively engaged in the telling. Each listener can come up to read a page aloud and display the pop up.

Mycellium Underground

Mycellium Underground

Pull Tabs Cause Laughter

Pull Tabs Cause Laughter

Pop Up Author Sam Ita Takes a Read

Pop Up Author Sam Ita Takes a Read

Project |01 WHEELS UP: ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY
 
Restaurants.
Bars.
Curbs without a curb cut.
Pesky elevator apartment buildings with 3 shallow stairs before the entrance.
How can persons who use wheelchairs go up a few stairs autonomously?
 
I've built a tool that will enable powerchairs to ascend one step and manual wheelchairs to ascend a few steps. Without assistance. Designed hand-in-hand with the input of 100+ wheelchair users.

 

 
Concept Development, Project Management, UX Research, Design Strategy, Fabrication
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Working Prototype

Working Prototype

User Persona 1

User Persona 1

Ratchet System for Wheel Hub

Ratchet System for Wheel Hub

Production Schedule

Production Schedule

User Persona 2

User Persona 2

Working Prototype

Working Prototype

3D Printed Wedge Model

3D Printed Wedge Model

3D Printed Wedge Model

3D Printed Wedge Model

3D Printed Wedge Model

3D Printed Wedge Model

3D Printed Wedge Model

3D Printed Wedge Model

Initial Concept Sketches

Initial Concept Sketches

Initial Concept Sketches

Initial Concept Sketches

Project |02 ClackClackFACE:
A Typewriter's Physical Computing Makeover
 
Visitors pull up a chair, type whatever their heart desires, and voila- those words show up on the page in front of them in their own profile. Move, and your words move with you. Yawn, and your words reshuffle to fill in your new face shape. ClackClackFACE is a completely new typewriter experience revealing your portrait in letters. 
 
Concept Development, Wire Flows, Processing Code, Wiring and Arduino Communication, User Testing, Debugging, Portrait Display
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Esteemed group mates Luna Chen + Jinyi Fu  
 

Children gather round ClackClackFACE in Washington DC at the US Science and Engineering Festival

ClackClackFACE finds users typing into my Royal Empress typewriter only to discover a surprise result.

Their own facial outlines are revealed as they type and are composed of the very words they’ve entered.

We wired 48 keys of me 1961 Royal Empress typewriter to an Arduino. This tracks what the user types.

Code and a webcam map these letter inputs into a sketch of our typer, based on brightness levels.

You can then click the print button to send this drawing to the printer.

I was so intrigued by people's different profiles that I ran out 10 minutes before the ITP Winter Show to buy some coloured paper.

Throughout this instillation, a portrait wall showcasing visitor's writings and face shape formed.

Project |03 Sculpting The Ocean:
An Adventure In 3D Color Printing 
 
Sculpted Ocean is a 3-D printed globe. It features the depth and chlorophyll levels of the world's oceans. It turns the current globe model on its head, lessening the focus on land and spotlighting the majestic bodies of water that surround us.
 
Winner of:
Morpholio's PinUp 2014 Honor Award
The Makery's 3D Design Competition 2014
 
Concept Development, Python Data Parsing, Rhino Modeling, Arc GIS Display, User Testing, 3D Printing
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Esteemed group mate Andrew Cerrito
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The Finished Oceanic Globe 6''

The Finished Oceanic Globe 6''

Printed on a 3D Systems ZPrinter 650

Printed on a 3D Systems ZPrinter 650

Initial Datapoints Plotted To a Map

Initial Datapoints Plotted To a Map

S. America Data in Modeling Software

S. America Data in Modeling Software

Datapoints Interpolated in ArcGIS

Datapoints Interpolated in ArcGIS

Datapoints Interpolated in ArcGIS

Datapoints Interpolated in ArcGIS

Datapoints Interpolated in ArcGIS

Datapoints Interpolated in ArcGIS

The Final Render

The Final Render

The Final Render

The Final Render

The Final Render

The Final Render

The Passage of a Day on The Highline

The Passage of a Day on The Highline

Inspiration for Storyboard Sketches

Inspiration for Storyboard Sketches

Storyboard Sketch

Storyboard Sketch

Storyboard Sketch 2

Storyboard Sketch 2

Storyboard Sketch 3

Storyboard Sketch 3

Photography from the Initial Shoot

Photography from the Initial Shoot

Photography from the Initial Shoot

Photography from the Initial Shoot

Photography from the Initial Shoot

Photography from the Initial Shoot

Project |04  Time In The Sky:
​A Responsive Documentary  

 

Time in the Sky is a responsive documentary piece showcasing a diverse set of people experiencing The Highline during one 24 hour period. 9 hours of footage, hundreds of photographs, several lines of code and over 40 personal interviews of people relishing the park in the sky. As viewers step up to the piece, they cue a unique audio clip and image mapped to the region where they are standing. 

 
Concept Development, Storyboard, Wire Frames, Photography, Video Editing, Interviews + Getting Strangers in Public Places To Share With You, Fabrication of Train,
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Esteemed group mates Sagar Mohite + Rosalie Yu
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