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Amanda Gelb
UX Researcher. Design Strategist. Experiential Educator. Social Entrepreneur.
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
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
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
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
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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