Final thesis presentation Fall 2011
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Alvaro Soto presented on a concept for product designers to utilize ambient data sources like sound as the informational basis for design decisions and formal aspects of objects. This allows for programmable complexity and flexibility without increased costs. Designers can work in an explicit yet flexible manner by being open to algorithmic exploration and variation rather than predefined shapes. New techniques are needed to achieve cost-effective design iteration and complexity using these data-driven and computationally-inspired approaches to small-scale local production.
Final thesis presentation Fall 2011
- 1. DESIGN FROM THE INVISIBLE Fall 2011 Thesis presentation prof. Cynthia Lawson and Chris Prentice Parsons The New School for Design
- 2. HELLO My name is ALVARO SOTO a PRODUCT DESIGNER Who loves to Make things
- 3. Why and how to make things
- 8. 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
- 9. The transformation of the material is the design decision
- 10. 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?
- 11. How will they fabricate these objects? what new techniques are necessary in order to achieve cost effective design iteration and complexity?
- 13. 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.
- 16. Dinner with friends light fixture
- 17. Use of data as an attraction force to transform material.
- 18. Bench project Pick-up sound recorder
- 19. Carousel
- 21. The ring project
- 22. The designer no longer needs to sketch details and defined shapes,he needs to be sensitive to algorithmic exploration and variation. The designer needs to be open to programmable complexity. The designer no longer needs to imply but he can work in an explicit yet flexible manner. The designer now has the ability to be interactive and generative.
- 24. Cartier Harry Winston Tiffanys & Co
- 25. Frozen Exhibition Amsterdam Curated by Marius Watz
- 26. Nerveous system
- 27. Next Steps Create a wearable piece and change data from sound to biometric information Continue the ring project explore concepts for a furniture piece
- 28. 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. thank you