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parsons school
of design sabine seymour |
| fall 2007 : parsons school of design: design & technology: fashionable technology - vital signs | spring 2007 : parsons school of design: design & technology: fashionable technology - dynamic surfaces |
| fall 2006: parsons school of design: design & technology: fashionable technology - dynamic surfaces |
| fall 2005: parsons school of design: design & technology: fashionable technology - connection |
| spring 2005: parsons school of design: design & technology: fashionable technology - tranformation |
| parsons school of design: parsons design lab: fashionable technology: project: hard candy club wear: project: connex |
Fashionable
Technology investigates the relationship between wearable technology,
fashion, craftsmenship, and design. The studio will seek to define the
current state of wearable technology. The research conducted will be presented
on a research website which will be designed and maintained throughout
the semester.Contextual analysis reveals and defines the aspects of communication,
aesthetics, and functionality of wearables that will be developed as group
projects. An interdisciplinary design process is applied to guide the
research, concept development, and prototyping. The entire process is
documented online throughout the semester. Parallel understanding of embedded
systems design, networked environments, and interdisciplinary design issues
validate the feasibility of such wearables. The culmination of the studio
is the creation of a proof of concept prototype that incorporates functionality,
practicality, and aesthetic appeal. |
| parsons school of design: fashion department: the epidermis as metaphor | the art of creating intelligent clothing: projects: blog |
The
Epidermis as Metaphor
examines approaches to fashion design and technology in a theoretical
and practical framework. Technologies enrich the cognitive characteristics
of our epidermis - the surface of our body. We will examine communication
embedded in such epidermis - from tatoos to microchips. The culmination
of the course is the creation of a concept garment that demonstrates functionality
and aesthetic appeal including documentation. |
| parsons school of design: parsons design lab: networked spaces | environments: project: the student curator |
Information
technology applied in the scale of architecture, enabling intensification
of flows in several levels, transforms services dynamics and urban structuresí
life cycles. New discoveries on ambient intelligence, likewise the development
of new forms for management of data flows, making use of ubiquitous computing
and invisible communications infrastructure are raising new paradigms
for the use of space. Recombine them to generate highly informative surrounds
is a new challenge for design. This collaboration studio offers practices
of cross-disciplinary teamwork blending techniques of multiple design
cultures, from architecture to software design, in a flexible re-configurable
system, aiming to generate immediate feedback and innovative solutions
for networked environments. The challenge is to identify existent flows
in service spaces, transport them to the laboratory in the form of interaction
models, design improvements on the information systems, generate interface
nodes and apply them back in to the original context. The lab will work
as a convergence point where urban flow experiences will be modeled, concepts
will be developed and discoveries applied by the students groups and guest
collaborators. An intense interchange of approaches and methods as well
as knowledge-share between the diverse disciplines involved in the group
is expected and the raising of complex systems configured in simple solutions
will be encouraged. |
| parsons school of design: fashionable technology guest lecture series: part 1 : part 2 : part 3 |
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