Resonance is a two-part wearable experience of dance; one for everyday wear and audience experience, and the other which optimizes movement and the synergy between visual and physical design. Utilizing vibrational frequencies, the body is immersed in sensations inspired by the tumultuous dance 'Unravel.' Just like the crashing of ocean waves, the vibrations come in cycles, varying in intensity corresponding to scenes of the dance. 

The goal of the audience wearable is to communicate with the body through vibration. After researching where trauma is held in the body, we developed a suit that would soothe and engage the audience user. Aesthetically, the audience's wearable represents a physical manifestation of trauma with black ruffles extending along with the suit. The dancer's wearable represents growth through a flower motif and intricate organic shapes.

Lisa Park

Iris Van Herpen

Issey Miyake

Material Prototyping:

Pattern Prototyping:

Open Innovation:

• Material system research
• Continue refining pattern
• More dynamic motion of wearable

Resonance

Kunal, Luca, Miriam, Declan, Faith, Will

thesis

These wearables are based on our dance about colonization which focuses on the Spanish colonizing Latin America. Each piece uses constriction to increase the viewer's empathy for the colonized people. One prototype constricts around the indigenous people while the other prototypes use constriction to manipulate the size and power of the Spanish.

Design Objectives

• Exaggerate movement of the dancers
• Help the audience empathize with the indigenous people
• Use a form of constriction to show the indigenous people's loss of freedom

Process (first half of studio)

• Brainstorm
• Precedent Research
• Sketches
• Prototype round one
• Wizard Of Oz Prototype
• Bodystorming

The main design of the first prototype involved a tesselated pattern on fabric, which is actuated by strings that "scrunch" the wearable up

Precedents

Mood board

Sketches/diagrams

Input/Output Digram

The audience approaches the dead bodies

The wearable scrunches up

Proximity of audience to the dead bodies & Manual Triggering

Processing

Input

Output

Ultrasonic

Sensor &

gyroscope

DC Motor

Electronics Demo

Material Research

Final Demo

Final Demo

Final Demo

Full Renders

• Integrating the electronics into the wearable
• Finalizing materials for the rigid plates and fabric
• Make the wearable visually constricting but not cumbersome for the dancers
• Continue to design tessellated pattern to match contours of whole body.

Next Steps

Prototype description (Silvia & Lalita)

The prototypes are paper wearables made to exaggerate the movements of the Spanish while they are plotting. As the hand gestures get more extreme, the wearable goes through more drastic changes, and the faster the Spanish move, the faster the wearable switches between shapes.

Precedents

Mood board

Sketches/diagrams

Input/Output Digram

The arm moves around

The wearable changes shape

The accelerometer senses the movement and signals to the servo to move the same percent as the arm moved, thus pulling on the strings attached to the paper, tightening it.

Accelorometer

Servo

Input

Processing

Output

Material Research

Kirigami is a variation of origami, the Japanese art of folding paper. In kirigami, the paper is cut as well as being folded, resulting in a three-dimensional design that stands away from the page. Kirigami typically does not use glue

Electronics Demo

Final Demo

Next Steps

• Connect electronics to the prototypes
• Revise design and placement
• Add more pieces to exaggerate movements
• Connect all the paper pieces
• Explore different materials
• work on choreography