The Inner Fabric of New York City is a proposal for an object-driven exhibit, discussing the role and impact of the garment industry on New York City.
Over the last two decades, many museums have put their energies into object driven exhibit design. The presented thesis project attempts to push boundaries, providing an object as personal guide, which leads through and becomes a part of an exhibit.
As pieces of clothing, until recently, were often passed on between sibling, from father to son, between cousins, neighbors or strangers, these passed along articles have become witnesses to times, events and people. It is these pieces of clothing that will guide the visitor through the exhibit, giving him or her a personalized experience as they venture through time.
A 3D flythrough shows the full floor plan of the proposed exhibit, while three build out elements, give examples of the proposed interaction.

I am designing and distributing a new line of hand-made communication devices whose form and function examine the subtle ways we relate to ourselves and to others. The result is a cross-referenced video archive that captures their transformation and interpretation in a variety of locations and situations around the world.

Having an address is how we exist on society,
how we become citizens, where we can be located, where we receive our mail, where our family and friends can contact us.

A house is where we validate this existence,
a shelter that gives us protection, our intimate space.

Are DIY communities able to make something for someone else?

Inhabitable collapsible structure made of cardboard becomes a shelter able to provide an address to a defined group of unsheltered homeless persons, by means of radio devices, proposing a way to integrate them to society.
How to make visible this layer of the population by using technology?

Snails and turtles don\’t need of an external construction, they live portable.

Their shell is their shelter.

The Ovü is made up of a lace arm band, with a highly sensitive thermistor attached on the inside that picks up changes in the Basal Body Temperature (BBT) of a woman.

This method of tracking fertility allows a dataset to be gathered of the woman\’s cycle (which can be quite allusive at times.) This dataset, collected using actual sensors, allows women the tools to have more control over their bodies.

There is no need to think and worry about babies all day long. Women go about their life as the temperature is tracked and uploaded to their online database.

Our bodies are made to move. The kinetic energy used in our daily movements allows us to get from place to place, dance and express ourselves. I want to use our body movements as an input control for manipulating video imagery.
I\’m creating a modular system that will bring sensor and wireless technologies to a wearable device allowing the performer freedom of movement.
The Modulotron system is a potentially useful tool for capturing body movement and make use of them in a digital environment to influence, change, modify certain desired aspects of visual imagery. It is intended for use in addition to the computer and any other equipment performers would need. The fabric used is merely a support for the array of sensors, which allows wearability and portability. The array of sensors is selected on their functionality and usability. Their placement on the body is in function to body movement and where they will be the least obtrusive yet work effectively and optimally. Amongst many, my goal is to make it as easy to use as possible, as plug & play as possible.
I envision the use of the Modul-O-Tron system as either in a live or informal setting. But of course, as it is designed to bring importance and value to body movement in the musical environment, it should be used in such a way that the interactivity between movement and output is clear.

I currently find that assistive technology predominately focuses only on executing specific tasks and not providing a means for personal expression. In order to address this disconnect, I have been working on project called iN-BaGs, which focuses on the objects we carry and how they reflect of our personal expression.

The two current explorations revolve around organization and security of the backpack. One exploration is a series of pouches inserted into the existing backpack. The pouches are wireless connected and controlled by a master panel. The panel is a way for the student to indicate the pouch (desire) they want or to be notified if a pouch is not closed properly (secure).

The second exploration is the in combination of fashion and mobility through the constraint of weight distribution. The frame of an existing backpack is used and modular components are attached and detached as the user desires. This provides flexibility in weight distribution and aesthetics.

My thesis work involves building game controllers into undergarments so that games are played through players physically touching one another. The goal of this project was to research and create objects that challenge the traditional notions and orientation of video game play.

I use light and urban fabrics such as dark denim and white cotton. 2 DC motors enmesh with 4 gears and 2 pulley systems that will move about the different pieces of armor covering. A soft switch is situated at the palm of the wearer\’s gloves. A mini Arduino will count the number of times the fists were made and is responsible for regulating the duration of the gears\’ motion.
The key gesture in Urban Female Armor is a fist-making and covering-up. What these gestures manifest are an expression of a very particular emotion and an action taken accordingly. This wearable provides a protective shell to the wearer in which she can safely feel her emotions and assuredly have them be seen by the others.

Dust is a personalized companion that you can attach to your clothes. It gives you comfort and relaxation when you are depressed or tired. It also randomly snores, vibrates and farts.

In the city,
between huge cubes of buildings,
we walk by people without awareness,
because they are strangers.
We might have been in a same elevator a week ago.
We might have watched a same movie.
We might have used a same bathroom somewhere.

We share the air, the water, the earth.

We all breathe, eat, dream, desire, live, reproduce, and will die.
We are all animal.

I would like to share our forgotten umbilical cord,

\’Savage cord\’

In broad term, we are all from the same big mother land.
Once we were the one.

This is a single long cord(approximately 70 meters) made of stocking stuffed with plastic bags. First I wrap my body with a cord, and start to hand one end to the stranger. The stranger wraps his/herself as well, and ask another stranger to share the savage cord.
At the end, we will all be the one again for a moment.

For the show, I will show the savage cord along with the documentation of performance in Washington Square Park on April 14th.
Audience can both watch the performance and experience the same performance by physically trying it on.