DESIGN FROM THE INVISIBLE Fall 2011 Thesis presentation
prof. Cynthia Lawson and Chris PrenticeParsons The New School for Design
HELLO My name is
ALVARO SOTO a PRODUCT DESIGNER
Who loves to Make things
Why and how to make things
Digital Craft
Complexity does not mean returning to the baroque, it means that the material can be transformed in different ways and many times without affecting its cost of production. This means, product designers
can create in an a priori yet flexible and cost effective manner
The transformation of the material is the design decision
In what ways will the product design process, particularly in small local production change if the de-signer utilizes ambient data from the environment to inform the design decisions and formal aspects
of the objects he/she designs?
How will they fabricate these objects? what new techniques are necessary in order to achieve cost effective design iteration and complexity?
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using ambient sound as the data source for the design decision of all the pieces in order to create a conceptual framework for all of them.
Ceramic Pendant project
Street sound visualization
Dinner with friends light fixture
Use of data as an attraction force to transform material.
Bench project
Pick-up sound recorder
Carousel
Folkloric latin group
The ring project
The designer no longer needs to sketch details and defined shapes,he needs to be sensitive toalgorithmic exploration and variation.
The designer needs to be open toprogrammable complexity.
The designer no longer needs to imply but hecan work in an explicit yet flexible manner.
The designer now has the ability to beinteractive and generative.
Cartier Harry Winston Tiffanys & Co
Frozen Exhibition AmsterdamCurated by Marius Watz
Nerveous system
Next Steps
Create a wearable piece and change data from sound to biometric information Continue the ring project
explore concepts for a furniture piece
thank you
Concept
A practice based research in form and fabrication techniques for product designers, working in local production and exploring computational methods as the source of information and inspiration in the design process.