Visceral Trinkets is a series of small objects which explore the line between what is acceptable in art and what is too gross or too creepy. The trinkets are constructed of materials which are in great abundance but rarely considered in the context of making and art. This aims to challenge why we draw these lines where we do.

Other art I looked into

Form Tests

Material Tests

1. When using Zoom you don't have the same social interaction as you would have in the nuvu space
2. Coaches and students sometimes forget to add you to Zoom

These problems can make you feel more isolated and less connected to your in-person classmates

Problem

؜Status Light

Portability

User Interview

Hand Held

large Interface

Feed Back

؜Design Focuses

Our solution

؜Remobot is a robot that aims to help NuVu with the inclusivity of remote learners by creating a robotic platform that one can remotely control. This robotic platform is designed around remote learners, allowing them to interact and always be in the space, even if someone forgets to put on the zoom.

Precedents

Welo

Google Home Pod

؜STELLINA

Use case diagram

Feedback

If you had to attend school online what features would you look for in this robot?

What features would you want if you had to interact with this robot while in person?

We want to continue to focus primarily on the physical technical aspects so that later, we can focus on the UI and user interaction with the robotic platform.

We hope to end the OI with this final physical prototype.

Direction

Thank You!

Thesis

A puzzle game built around eliminating enemies without any conventional weapons, not even magic. The player needs to work with their environment, using different interactions to create interesting combos that can take out their opponents. Depending on the level, different tools, traps and enemies will be present that the player can leverage by pushing, pulling, and connecting. While we have had experience making games, it has mostly focused on coding and feature implementation and less art and polish. The plan for this project is to expand gravity shift by adding in this polish in the form of sound and particle effects, taking the game to the next level

Core Mechanics

Grappling Hook

Gravity Orb

Elemental Interactions

Time Constraints

Grappling hook mockup or cyberhook

tf2 rocket jump/momentum mod or similar puzzle game concept

[speed game] stat screen at the end with time, explain rewarding players for speed

Process Diagram

Prototypes

Demo

Deliverables

Bring the game to an Alpha state:

1. All major mechanics implemented
2. Most things not fully tuned or balanced
3. Small sandboxes for each mechanic, with a larger one for all of them to interact

Next Steps

Sam:

1. Implement wallrunning
2. Add direct grapple
3. Add double jump and ground slam
4. Tune movement mechanics to be more situational

Andrew:

1. Begin adding particle effects
2. Add in new enemies

Feedback

1. What kinds of enemy design could we implement?
2. What other movement mechanics should we add?
3. How could we incentivize completing levels quickly without making it a requirement?

Thank You

Thesis

Portable Adaptable Furniture (PAF) is designed for NuVu students to have a modular yet compact piece of furniture. NuVu has uncomfortable seating that is rough against your body. We plan to solve this by creating soft seating that can be used in multiple ways. Such as a chair, bed, table, and couch.

Inspiration

Precedents

Ratchet Lock

Tripod Lock

Universal Joint (U-Joint)

Ball & Socket Clamp

Toothed Tilt Joint

؜Next Steps

Improvements

Challenges

Thesis

Eco-Friendly Art Kits is a community-focused project aimed at increasing access to the arts for children who may not have regular exposure to creative resources, while also emphasizing environmental sustainability. With a focus on hand making materials, experimenting with eco-friendly methods, and outreach, we aim to distribute the kits to underserved communities. To extend the impact and accessibility of the project, we also created an Instagram account that features tutorials, educational content, and updates, reinforcing our mission to make art both inclusive and environmentally conscious.

1. Creative outlet that supports emotional expression, cognitive growth, and problem-solving skills
2. Builds confidence and encourages imagination
3. Bring these benefits to children who might not otherwise have access to creative materials
4. Thinking about sustainability in our day to day life

Precedents

Outreach

Boston Children’s Hospital is dedicated to improving and advancing the health and well-being of children around the world through its life-changing work in clinical care, biomedical research, medical education and community engagement.

؜Rosie's Place aims to provide a safe and nurturing environment for poor and homeless women to maintain their dignity, seek opportunity, and find security in their lives

1. Serve families and individuals of all ages with exceptional programming that meets the evolving needs of the community
2. Create opportunities for those who have been traditionally denied access due to social and economic barriers
3. Engage volunteers to strengthen the capacity of the agency and build a sense of community
4. Maintain a highly motivated and well-trained staff
5. Continually assess community needs and respond with innovative, evidence-based programming
6. Rigorously document and evaluate programs to ensure high-quality and impact

Process Diagram

Paper Making

Paint Making

Social Media Documentation

Next Steps

1. Drop kits off at East End House
2. Document kits in use and post to the EcoArt Cambridge account

Thesis

Our Project aims to create art kits for children made from recycled paper and homemade watercolors. We want to donate and distribute these kits to a preschool or shelter in our community in an act of service, as well as creating an instagram account to document our work and create step-by-step instructions of how to replicate our process. Making art can improve cognitive function and boost creativity and we want to be able to supply under-privileged communities with our eco-friendly art supplies.

Project Deliverables

1. Around 20 kits, each with a 10 page notebook(100 sheets of paper, 5 per notebook folded), a paintbrush, and a set of red, yellow, and blue paints.
2. An instagram page of tutorials and explanations about our process and how to replicate, as well as featuring and educating on the benefits of making art, why access is important, and the new necessity for eco friendly art.

Precedents

Sketches

Prototypes

Process

Next Steps

1. powder paint
2. binding notebooks
3. making packaging
4. more paper
5. further planing for social media/outreach

Feedback?

Give

Women

Votes

Green

White

Violet

Give

Women

Votes

Green

White

Violet

Green

White

Purple

Hope

Purity

Dignity

Puppet uterus

؜

؜In modern day politics while AFAB people are

actively losing rights to their own body, which we chose to symbolize through puppetry. This necklace is to be worn with the uterus pendent in the front representing the person's body, with

the puppet holders in the back representing the government being in control.

؜With the intention of representing the lack of reproductive rights in modern day U.S., we landed on the symbol of a lock and key, with the locks on bracelets representing handcuffs, to indicate the lack of bodily autonomy. The necklace aspect of this set is a key with the top being a hanger, to represent the uncomfortable truth of what abortion bans mean, and the fact that banning abortion will not end abortions, instead it will only end safe abortions.

؜Lock & Key Set

؜Based on a statistic found by the World Health Organization, every two minutes a woman dies due to a pregnancy or childbirth issue or complication.

This necklace symbolizes this, with the red gem stones representing the death of another person and each pearl representing one minute.

؜Awareness Necklace

Thesis

The eyes is a photography exhibit that highlights the scale and invasiveness of digital surveillance. By placing the viewer in an observing space looking at a collage of photographs the eyes makes the viewer feel uncomfortable and exposed by comparing online surveillance eyes. This realization makes the viewer more cautious about when and with who they share their data online.

Precedents

Process Diagram

Brainstorm and planning What is the art about? What feelings are we trying to evoke? What part of modern society are we trying to critique?

Refine ideas and plan a final piece How will final piece demonstrate our thesis? Pick a medium(s), to combine with photography.

Set up the room where we will shoot. Blackout all the windows and transparent walls. Create a controlled light environment to take photos

Assemble our final piece Glue our photos and laser cuts together.

Create prints Experiment with different types of paper and paper sizes. Experiment with printmaking.

Shoot and develop our film Spend a day in Beaver's darkroom, developing film.

؜Prototypes / Iterations

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What did you learn in this process?

1. Photography
2. Film development process
3. Print making process
4. Controlled lighting environment for photography
5. Fog machine
6. Burning photos
7. Laser cutting photos

How does having more creative freedom helped you in this OI?

1. Helped us pivot our project (went from audio to art)
2. Gave us more room for flexible art making (shoot now, assemble later)

What were the challenges?

1. Time. Wasted a week on a failed audio project. Need to think about if my idea is good or not.
2. Planning. Needed more time to develop our photos. Originally we were hopping to do cyanatype but only got one day of planning in the darkroom.

Reflections

Thesis

Nurturing Nature explores balancing routine with flexibility through furniture. Modular furniture presents a choice to users between frequent reconfiguration or keeping a piece static. This project will physically represent this choice through a custom piece of furniture, encouraging users to reflect on their relationship with modularity.

؜Kaia

Modularity

؜Kaia

؜modular furniture presents people with the option between continuously utilizing the modularity and constantly changing around their furniture, or messing around with the modularity a bit, then finding a way they like the furniture and keeping it that way permanently. we wanted to create a physical representation of that

Growth & Time

Jade

Early Sketches

؜Kaia

we did lots of sketching in the beginning of our process to aid us in figuring out the logistics of our concept. one of the main things we decided was what type of furniture would we be building, and we picked shelving. part of the reason we picked shelving is because we didn't want the selves to just be functional but also to be used to create sort of wall mosaics and shelves

1. why shelving

Design Elements

؜Modular

Flexible

Interactive

Early Prototypes

؜Kaia

some of the feedback we got on our early prototypes was that they were sort of giving a sharp vibe and it was a contrast between the flowing growing vines

Revision

Jade

Storyboard

؜Kaia

Final Iteration

؜Kaia

؜for our final iteration we landed on a dovetail and peg attachment system

Fabrication Overview

The shelves are made from layers of plywood to create a cookie cutter aesthetic. To achieve this we need to cut sixteen identical layers, then align, glue, and clamp the shelf together. Misalignment in cutting or gluing could make the modular pins useless, ruining the shelf.

Jade

Wood Cutting

Pattern Routing

CNC Routing

1. Slow
2. Inaccurate
3. At NuVu

1. Fast
2. Very Accurate
3. Not at NuVu

Jade

CNC Cutting

Jade

Final Assembly

Jade

Jade

Reflection

1. ؜Explored furniture design
2. Explored integrating nature in design
3. Learned to use CNC machining