Hi I'm Sage. I am a senior @ Brown concentrating in Urban Studies with a tract in the Built Environment. I like material culture and the way that the things we build and how we build them shape our lives. And a lot of other things. This is my blog for a class called DesignStudio or ENGN0930 Spring 2015.
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HUMAN CENTERED DESIGN WORKSHOP
1) The IDEO.org DesignKit. Familarize yourself with the case studies, and watch all of the “mindsets” videos (each about 1 or 2 minutes). http://www.designkit.org/ 2) Download and familiarize yourself with the Stanford D.School Design Thinking Bootcamp. http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&ved=0CEsQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdschool.stanford.edu%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F03%2FBootcampBootleg2010v2SLIM.pdf&ei=_iQEVZj9NpPkoAS_nIJo&usg=AFQjCNErdTiviykSwSN79gyOijcTZBSe6w&bvm=bv.88198703,d.cGU 3) IDEO shopping cart video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taJOV-YCieI
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Furniture examples from last year
http://designstudiospring2014.tumblr.com/post/82800899282/designstudio-furniture-crit-april-15th-2014 http://designstudiospring2014.tumblr.com/post/82800808910/designstudio-furniture-crit-april-15th-2014
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WAS ALSO COOL TO RELEARN THE LASER CUTTER IN A BDW WORKSHOP
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WAS SUPER COOL TO SUCCESSFULLY WORK THE 3D PRINTER ON MY OWN TODAY
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Pencil Hair-tie
Almost there. Because the pencil was sliding around last time I shrunk the diameter of the pencil cylinder to 8.5 millimeters.
In printing I lowered the heat to 220 degrees C to make the print smoother and changed the infill to 15% to make the object lighter.
It turned out like this!:
It turned out really well this time! (S/O to my model-roommate Steff Hayes for having a beautiful head.) It’s easy to put on and the pencil fits perfectly snuggly so that it is easy to put in and out but also doesn’t move around when you move your head.
It could use a few more iterations to get it to lay a little flatter on the head. And I will take a video of someone putting it in so that you can really see how it functions.
I also played around with how it could work as a hair clip as well. My hair is really short right now so I don’t where hair-ties very often and even when I do, my pony tail is so small that there isn’t a lot of room on the hair-tie to spare. But I do wear bobby pins a lot. I could tweak it a little to make it both bobby pin and hair-tie accessible. Attached as a bobby pin it looks like this:
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Pencil Hair-tie
The third time I increased the diameter of the pencil space by 1.5 millimeters.
In 3D rendering it looked like this:
In printing I used the same settings as before (20% infill, 225 degrees C, and PLA). This time the pencil fit, although there was a slight crack along the furthest edge of the cylinder because the layer was too thin. Since the pencil at least fit, I threaded a rubber band through and tested it out. It looked like this:
COMING SOON: A GIF OF THE PENCIL FALLING OUT OF THE HOLDER
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Pencil Hair-tie
The second time around I thought if I changed the printing settings it would be the right fit for the pencil. I changed the infill to 20%, changed the heat to 225 degrees C, and switched to the PLA material. I also adjusted the size of the part where the hair-tie threads into the object to make it bigger and more simple shape.
It came out like this:
The print was better. But the fit was still too tight.
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Pencil Hair-Tie
With my sketches I went to Rhino and started building my object. I had to work with creating surfaces, extruding surfaces and curves, and all kinds of boolean commands.
My first Rhino model looked like this on the screen:
The idea was to make a space that the pencil could fit in very snuggly and then a second space that I hair-tie could be threaded through and tied to the object.
In printing this first iteration I used the ABS material, heat of 230 degrees C, and 10%infill with no rafts or supports. It came out like this:
The pencil didn’t fit in and the print came out a little wonky so I revised and tried again.
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Pencil Project
We were asked to 3D print something that augments the use of a pencil.
I decided to make an object that connects a pencil to your hair-tie. My hair is very straight and fine so when I try to stick a pen and pencil either through a pony tail or behind my ear, it always falls out because it has nothing to hold onto.
I wanted it to look something like this:
I drew out some preliminary sketches, researched the dimensions of a pencil for a good starting scale, refined my sketch dimensions.
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Fictional Tech Overview 3
For our final presentation, we wrote a script for the story we'd developed. It starts with an overview of how the world had come to be what it is in the year 2300. And then, when the lights come up, it switches over to another council meeting with the land leaders where we explain the SeaCircle C5 in the best detail we've had yet and make plans for them to use our technology in the coming years.
In the coming week I'd like to make the final presentation slideshow and script tumblr accessible.
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Writing Scifi
Atty and I have been writing out the story we've been coming up with as a group. And thinking about how best to tell the story.
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Brainstorming
Working on ideas for exactly how you get into and out of the SeaCircle as a group.
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Fictional Tech Progress
Vira and I have been working on making a small scale model of the SeaCircle C5. It seems very much off topic because it's not a huge part of our presentation, but it's been fun to work on. We wanted to make a model fo the vehicle as well as a model of a human to sow how it's worn.
First we tried to 3D print her.
That didn't work.
Then we decided to see if we could laser cut a 3D model with hinges.
We took an image of a woman's figure from google images and traced it in illustrator.
We cut it out once. Changed the shape, cut again.
Resized it, cut again. And kept going until we got a figure that worked.
Once she was all cut out and sized, we used a 1/8th inch material from the RISD 3D store to make hinges.
Once she was put together, we made the SeaCircle out of acrylic on the laser cuter and added a hinge to make it easy to open.
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Fictional Tech Overview 2
Stage 2 - Air, Pressure, Power
We took our crit feedback and went back to the drawing board. We decided to focus on the technological elements of our idea to see if we could fix them or not. We settled on fixing three things, Air, Pressure, and Power, to make our technology more convincing.
We decided that, while it was the starting point for this project, we had to move away from the UV ray idea. Instead we moved to a fictional material that retracted into the SeaCircle when not used and encapsulated the used when in water that filtered water the way fish gills do; water moves across a large surface area of gill like material that filters O2 into the bubble and CO2 out into the water. #biomicry
That material would also act as a futuristic pressure seal and a pressure chamber so that there was no risk of being crushed by 14,000 feet of water pressure or suffering from decompression sickness (or the way that diving too far or too fast effects the gasses in our body, often leading to neurological problems and even paralysis if not managed properly.) This made it so that travel could either be in shallow water or deep seas.
Lastly, we went with the idea of Arc Reactors, or their futuristic cousins, as the power source for these vehicles. We assumed that they would be stable and long lasting enough to power trips from the bottom of the ocean up to land. They would power the operating system of the vehicle as well as the mechanical elements (expansion/retraction of the outer material and propellers.)
Little things we also added were, a seat that retracts into the ring, hook for bags, and DNA turn key operations.
With the technological components figured out (for the most part), we started to throw around ideas about the world that our technology existed in. We chose to go with a post-apocalyptic-humans-ran-out-of-resources-and-moved-underwater theme. That set up led us to consider the larger implications of a societal shift like that. In history when people have moved places so dramatically, be it from the country to the city or the city to the country, there are always dramatic divisions between those people in power and those who are not. These divisions are often socio-economic a well as cultural and are usually incredibly confused/confusing. In our world we decided that a certain segment of the population moved underwater where they established new, cutting edge cities, schools, and health care. People who couldn't leave land were left to fight amongst each other for the remaining resources. There would be strict boarder controls to keep people out of the sea cities unless they belonged there.
Thinking about this world we started to wonder how we fit into the story. Were were "landies" or "sea people"? We worked out a story where we were born on land but plucked from our homes when we and other land children tested highly on the international standardized testing. We then attended school underwater and were recruited to work at SeaCircle upon graduation where we developed the newest SeaCircle model.
With this new story in mind we decided that the best way to pitch the new technology elements of this iteration, as well as this iteration on the story, was to make our presentation a council meeting with the land leaders as double agents who want to help them advocate for reunification by hacking the SeaCircle to get landies into and out of the sea cities undetected.
The feedback was to develop the story more. And to figure out a better way for people to get into the vehicle...
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New shape
Vira worked on the solid work file to include the Gilead material and "Arc Reactors" in this iteration of images. It looks more like this now:
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Fictional Tech Project 1
The prompt for this project was very open ended. "Make a fictional technology." It was a group project and the idea was to make something that didn't exist, and in the process start to use the tools of the BDW, classmates, and a design sensibility to present our ideas.
I was in a group with Vira Behnam Roudsari, a senior in engineering and Athyuttam Eleti, a sophomore in computer science.
We made the SeaCircle S5 for underwater transportation, and imagined a world that it would exist in.
Stage 1 - Brainstorming and 1st Presentation The project started with a workshop on the way that candles compare to LED lights (link). And then we split off into groups to work on our fictional tech. We threw around a lot of ideas about different uses of light, hand held devices,biotech, Elon Musk, and transportation and called it a day.
At our next meeting we revisited the idea of making a form of underwater transportation that uses a field of light to evaporate the water surrounding the user, creating a bubble of oxygen for them to breathe in. It was the best of the bunch so we went with it.
The idea was that a sleek carbon fiber ring would go around the users waist, either by them stepping into it or putting it over their head. Once inside, the rind would project a field of light upward and downward, creating a cylinder around the user. This cylinder of air would allowed the user to breathe underwater. The ring would also have steering controls and a self driving GPS system.
We then thought some about exactly how/when/why this kind of transportation would be needed. We decided that it was technology for a very futuristic world where people moved their homes or second homes to colonies under the sea and needed transportation to get there. We imagined "sea roads" that were charted out so people could get places and not disturb the sea life too much, like high ways. We imagined "Sea Ports" as the places that people got onto or into their see transportation to travel underwater. We imagined that there were other forms of mass sea transit (think buses or planes) that people boarded at the Sea Port and took down. Our technology was like the Model-T, a personal transport that you could take when you wanted, where you wanted, how you wanted.
The Pitch
Then we worked on how to pitch it for our first presentation. We knew that there were a lot of holes in our project and questions that we were just jumping over, so we decided to pitch our idea by just throwing everyone into this world where this technology already exists in the hopes that people would imagine solutions to the holes in our story on their own.
So we gave our technology/the company that produced it a fancy name: "Sea Circle" We followed the lead of an Apple launch in our aesthetic and called our model the SeaCircle C5, an obvious follow up and improvement on the previous models. This iteration would be adding in some key features like an operating system, named Phe, would talk to the user as they moved around and speed increases. Made solid works models of the vehicle. We mocked up some quotes about our company shaking up the Sea Transport industry. We made a prototype of the SeaCircle C5 using foam core, shiny silver paper, and LED lights. And Atty and I (Vira had her last RISD class that day and had to miss) as the founders of the company.
The feedback we got was the develop the technology of the product as well as the world that it exists in more. How did we get to the point of using this technology? What exactly is is for? Shallow water travel? Deep sea diving? How does the UV ray tech replenish O2 to sustain healthy air quality? How do you steer? How is it propelled? Is it one person only? Where do you put your things if you are traveling to your sumer home? How do you get into it?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SNwOneO3t8
These videos by Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby were really interesting.
Inspiration: Affirmative Design
Critical Design (as the opposite of affirmative design)
Radical Design http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_period_%28design%29
Super Studio http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/about/blogs/2013/02/04/superstudios-radical-architecture
Archigram http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archigram
"Thinking of different ways in which you might live." "Those ideas of critiquing the current social and economic systems."
These are their projects.
Hertzian Tales Thief of emotion "Our examples sitting next to the other ones would open up new thoughts on the topic."
Weeds Project "About trying to design into the world of furniture that responded to much more personal obsessions and poetic needs." to..."gently critique the current kinds of manufacturing."
Why is it happening now? was a great question. "Allows people to ask broader questions about the value that make up society, using design."
Ex. The cultural side of robots instead of the romantic technical side of robots. "What happened when you think about robots in a very domestic cultural context and you imagine what happens when they become much more integrated into our lives." "A much more complicated relationship than master and slave." "challenge the utopia idea." Relates back to the "Anxious Times" project.
"Humor is a way of respecting people's intelligence. Kind of engaging them in ideas and appealing to their imagination. A way of being ambiguous we are not saying this is how things should be, we are putting an idea there and saying lets talk about it." "the balance between some kind of critique or challenging idea and enjoyable. I think we aim for 90% critique and 10% humor."
"No. It's definitely not art." "If its art. it defuses it people relax and say oh its fine its supposed to be strange and poetic. But if its design its more personal, its more about everyday life. "Design is about everyday life."
"We love the idea of showrooms." "You see an object in a show room and imagine living with it before you buy it. We want to push on maybe a different future they might buy."
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