PosTextiles

PosTextiles are an art collective who have all graduated from the Texile Futures MA at Central Saint Martins. Their work is concept driven using future technologies that aren't yet at reality but with the idea tthat they one day could be. I love this style of working. It's so imaginative and really makes you think about what the future could hold. Amy Cogden's work visualises a time when we will grow our own jewellery from skin cells. Cells are another kind of structure.

Natsai Audrey Chieza

Ann-Kristin Abel

Amy Congden

Body Adornment/Distortion

The live brief I have chosen is to create a piece of jewellery for Urban Outfittters. I looked at distortion in unit x last year and I wanted draw on those ideas for this brief. I want to explore jewellery as a form of structure added to the body so that it ties in with my personal project. The following artists have adorned or distorted th body in some way. 

Naomi Filmer creates unconventional pieces for areas of the body that we dont usually decorate. I like the fluidity of her pieces, how they respond to the curves of the body.

Akarte creates humuorous composiitions by usually covering or adding to the face and head.

Lucy & Bart create these interesting images that verge on performance adding unusual materials to the body. They use the body as a canvas, sometimes adding shape and structure in unusal places changing what expect from the form of the body.

Naomi Filmer

Akatre

Lucy & Bart

Architectural Fashion

I have been really inspired by fashion during my research. I nevver thought I was interested in it discipline but it just shows how you can be inspired by anything. I like thhe architectural element of the following pieces. I am also interested in future technologies and Iris Van Herpan produced a collection of garments created on a 3D printer. 

Mercedes Arocena & Lucia Benitez created a modular collection.

Windre Rienstra

Mercedes Arocena & Lucia Benitez

Iris Van Herpen

Folding to create structure

The following artist use various folding techniques as a way of creating structure. It also creates movement. I think this could be something to explore.

Andrea Russo

Polly Verity

Jule Waibel

Modular Design

One thing about structures in nature is that they are usually made up of multiples. This form of construction is also called modular. I am interested in products that are designed this way. I how the following examples need to pieced together and potentially can be customised. It also means that a product can be added to or expanded. It can be a very solid way construcing something.

Floora- Wool Felt Modular Rig by Johanna Richter

PROJECTiONE

Disney Store Modular Honey Comb Design

Biometric Responsive Surface Structures

This research has taken the heat responsive behavior of a pine cone and applied it to a wall. The pine cone will open and close depending on the temperature. This technology is being researched all over the world and with the idea that one day we will live and work in buildings that respond to the environment.

 

ICD Institute for Computational Design – Prof. Achim Menges

http://icd.uni-stuttgart.de/?p=5655

Nature inspired Architecture

The following projects are all inspired by the structures in nature. When we visualise of organic forms we think of fluid random shapes, but really they are very strong geometric structures. I love the idea of going back to nature for inspiration for something so essential like a building but it shows how perfect nature can be.

Pop-Up Bowooss Bionic Research Pavilion- Students at The School of Architecture at Saarland University

The Water Cube Olympic Stadium

United Nations Memorial Design- ACME

Structures in Nature

I think researching structures in nature will benefit my this project. It fascinates me how mathematical nature is. Beehives are made up of perfect hexagons and the veins in a leaf evenly spaced so that nutrients reach every part of it. I found this book in the library which is full of these structures and I think improve my construction skills.

Initial Research

Here are some examples of where textiles and architecture meet. 

Elizabeth Delf creates structural forms that can be worn on the body or displayed as installation. This got me thinking about the relationship between structural form and the body.

Kvadrat Clouds is a three-dimentional textile tile concept designed by Ronan and Ervan Bouroullec. As a product for your home, no two are the same as the client aranges the piece however they want. I am interested in geometric forms and how they fit together. This is something I would like to explore when experimenting with materials. Interiors is a possible context for me to explore as an outcome.

Ernesto Netto is an contemporary installation artist who creates pieces inspired by organic forms. This is something I would like to explore as I am interested in structures in nature and how they have inspired design. 

Elizabeth Delfs

Kvadrat Clouds

Ernesto Netto

Locating Brief

For this project we are required to write our own brief as it is a self-directed project. I am keen to continue researching some of the themes and ideas from the Intentions brief such as pattern, repetition, rhythm and symmetry. I am also going to bare architecture in mind as a potential context, but will not restrict myself to this alone. We have been given several live briefs to choose from, either to work on separately or in conjunction with our personal project. I have chosen the Urban Outfitters brief (Jewellery) because I feel this will push me to work outside of my comfort zone as the final outcome is a product. I would like to learn how to work in this design driven way having an end product/design in mind. I will research Urban Outfitters to get an idea of their target audience as well as their current products. Initially I will combine the two projects but if at any point feel the direction of the two is different then I will work on them separately.