Watch Your Back: A skirt and shoulder piece covered in eyes that explores the disconcertingly invasive aspect of social media. The model is aware of but cannot see the eyes they carry with them, much like the way users expose themselves to anonymous spectators when they use sites like Facebook and Instagram.

Watch Your Back is meant to highlight one of the negative sides of social media, namely unwanted attention from online followers. In today's society, people are expected to have an online presence, and may feel pressure even from a young age to make posts about their lives while thinking little about who might be able to see them. The inspiration for this project primarily came from a street mural titled “Follow for Follow” by the artist “I <3”. It features a woman smiling at her phone with an indicator above her head showing that she has two new followers. Two hooded people with unseen faces stand behind her, representing the new followers. Watch Your Back is intended to replicate the message of the chilling mural with a wearable art design. The shoulder piece holds an array of eyes that surrounds and stares at the back of the models head, representing how you don't see all the people who see your posts online. The skirt is a patchwork of eyes that hangs from a nylon belt and held away from a models legs with wooden frames, representing the mental weight of being stalked and how it follows a user wherever they go. Each eye is made with wooden frames glued to colored fabric and paper as pupils, as well as a reflective plastic material called rolex as the eye whites. The hope is that the creepy image of eyes covering and clinging to someone will prompt people to be more thoughtful when posting on social media.

1. Description: 

Seed Deployer: a backpack that spreads milkweed and dandelion seeds into parks around a city to save Monarch butterflies and bees from extinction, because these plants the main food source because of their pollen.

2. Brief: 

Seed Deployer is a backpack that spreads milkweed and dandelion seeds into parks around a city to save Monarch butterflies and bees from extinction, because these plants the their main food sources, respectively. In the original model, the seed dispenser was created as an attachment to a backpack using magnets but it was not strong and would fall off. In the new design, the dispenser is instead its own backpack being mounted securely. This allows for someone to wear this device while running or biking without worrying it would fall off while it's moving.

Nicole:

Ride or Die: A racing video game operated by a 3D printed steering wheel with a potentiometer to mimic real-life driving. 

Ride or Die is a racing video game created in Unity. The 3D printed steering wheel includes an attached potentiometer for maximum range of motion. On the inside of the controller, there is an Arduino and 4 buttons. The buttons are for the minus gear, the plus gear, power-ups/boosts, and starting/pausing the game. The project initially started with a goal to create both a game and controller for a specific person with a disability. Ride or Die is an adaptive gaming set used to spark future ideas for those who want to help everyone fully immerse themselves in gaming.

Aaron: 

Ride or Die: A game and controller that is easy to use and fun to play. The controller has adaptive buttons that help the driver fully experience the game.

Our project is an adaptive game and controller that exists to make driving games easier for those that find them difficult to play. We made the controller by 3d printing the shell that would house the Arduino and a base made out of laser cut wood and a PVC pipe that the wires for the potentiometer could go through. The game was construed in unity by using obj's and other rendering files.

Our project is designed to simulate the effects of oil on a body of water, in order to combat water pollution. The machine is made of a series of gears that work in unison powered by an Arduino run motor. The Arduino is coded to spin the motor without stopping, this spins 4 spiral 3d printed pieces around which look like waves. This is a second part to a project constructed weeks prior. In this project, a 3d printed oil droplet would fall onto a button which triggered an array of red led's to light up across an acrylic panel which is supposed to represent oil mixed with water. Overall, this project was formed to symbolize the effects of oil usage and extraction on our planet.

Lila Goldstein:

Watch Your Back: A skirted belt covered with weighted eyes to represent the emotional toll social media can take on an individual. The model wearing the outfit cannot see any of the eyes but can feel their weight. 

Watch Your Back is a wearable designed to highlight a negative aspect of social media: the spawning of people who stalk "influencers," those who make their careers advertising certain products or outfits on social media. The street artist named “I <3” talks a lot about online stalking in his collection named “A Sign of the Times,” particularly in the piece “Follow for Follow”. This piece shows a woman smiling, looking at her phone, with a bubble above her head saying that she has two new followers. Behind her, two genderless people wearing all black and hoods represent these "followers" in an ominous light. The skirt Watch Your Back aims to replicate the chills people get from looking at this art. The outfit consists of many eyes stitched in a unique pattern that makes a skirt hanging down from the back of a simple black belt. Each eye's pupils are a unique color, created by filling the eye-shaped laser-cut wooden frames with different textured fabrics peaking through. Originally it had two pieces of wood sandwiching the fabric. In the final iteration, the eyes only have one piece of wood with rowlux covering the back. These eyes appear to watch and follow the model. The goal is to make this person appear and feel vulnerable the way social media often can. 

Emma Ruddy:

Watch Your Back: a wearable that draws attention to the potentially threatening aspect of "followers" on social media. This wearable consists of a train made up of many different-colored eyes so that the model feels the eyes' presence without being able to see them. 

Watch Your Back is designed to address the effect of social media "followers" on the average person's mental state and social life. The eyes are made of laser-cut frames filled with pupils of different textiles and finally, laser cut Rowlux film to add to the visual effect. There are wooden pieces attached to a belt that acts as a frame for the piece, and the eyes are attached by using clear string and tying them together with small holes. The accumulated weight of the wooden eyes represents the weight of media attention can have on someone's livelihood. The inspiration for the wearable originates from a street art piece created by an artist named iHeart, whose art aims to draw attention to the negative aspects of social media. In his piece "Follow for Follow", a woman is depicted as excited about two new followers, but the background image suggests that she is being physically stalked by two hooded figures. To make a similar point, that the intent of social media followers is unknown and can be threatening, Watch your back uses eyes to highlight the creepiness of being watched by so many people who can't be seen in turn.

The Sunrise light:  The light is for children that are diagnosed with Depression and other mental health disorders that make it hard to get out of bed in the morning.  The light awakens children with a smooth, slow glow to help them get out of bed in a comforting way.  A Castle, dragon or even a sailboat can be inserted inside the light to give the light more appealing features.

The light is in the shape of a box and has a frame on the front of it. Inside the frame, there is a thin sheet of paper so when the light is turned on, it will give off a soft glow effect. Inside the box, there is an opening where you can place various shapes and in the back of the box, there is a mechanical bird that flies back and forward.  

The Sunrise light brings up with an issue about children with depression and other mental issues that are not discussed as often. Our project helps the children who don't want to get up in the morning and the ones who feel as though they don't have enough light in their life. A study was done by the CDC and it showed that depression in children has increased greatly, going up by 3.4% or more each year.

Our light is run an Arduino that is attached to the battery pack. The technology in our light is pretty simple. We used the servo to make the bird look like it was flying and we used the light to make the shapes cast a shadow on the paper. How it works is that it would be placed on a bedside table and it would be programmed to a certain time and slowly the lights would get brighter, which would wake up the child gradually.  When the child wakes up they can see a castle cast on their wall or a sailboat which is just a fun, nice, thing to see in the morning.