Threads of Comfort
In this project, I try to capture the small everyday choices that bring the feeling of comfort & familiarity. Leveraging the metaphor of sewing, the tactile nature of a cushion & it’s associated affect, I explore ways of surfacing the varied but similar notions of human comfort.
This project consisted of two parts: a live interactive canvas where the audience could enter information and generate their unique data art patterns and personalised fabricated cushion covers from these patterns.
- Fabrication
- Interactive
- Personalised
- Printmaking
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Data as a Means of Inquiry
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Audience
The project began with the observation that nearly all my peers have moved home & countries to be here. We share common emotions around shifting to and getting acclimated to a new environment, culture, weather & food. The project attempts to surface the small pleasures that have remained constant and are a source of comfort and familiarity.
I conducted open-ended discovery interviews with a few peers to understand their notions around comfort. The qualitative data collected was used to identify & categorise different aspects of comfort. Guided by some of the responses from the interviews, I iterated on different phrases associated with each category & finalised a set of descriptors that felt both broad & complete.
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Context(ile)
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Medium & Metaphor
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Visual Explorations
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Prototyping
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I generated unique patterns for all my peers to showcase at the exhibition
Showcase
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A snap of the audience trying out the interactive
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Fabrication
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