The rocking chair built for two that I designed and fabricated during Danny Rozin’s Digital Fabrication class.
Tons of prototypes, and a dozen hours on the CNC machine making the parts.
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The rocking chair built for two that I designed and fabricated during Danny Rozin’s Digital Fabrication class.
Tons of prototypes, and a dozen hours on the CNC machine making the parts.
(Source: itpabb)
This is the Weather Window I created at ITP in December 2011. It is an interactive display that takes real-time weather data and re-appropriates it, putting it in the everyday object of a window frame. This project is important for us as we become increasingly urban dwellers with little access to the outdoors and nature. It is an interactive window frame that changes as people choose different locations in the world.
I used Processing to create the Graphical User Interface for the window. I used Arduino to make the physical objects change according to the weather. The window frame holds three objects to show rain, wind and snow (respectively) in any location— a cup of water, wind-blown grasses, a snowdrop chandelier.
The projection in the background changes with each location’s temperature change— a big sun with a warm day in Maui, Hawaii, for example.
Lastly, a few music pieces play if unlocked by especially interesting weather conditions.
Go to weatherwindow.tumblr.com to find more description.
Or itpabb.tumblr.com/tagged/weather-window to find out more about my full process and code from start to end.
In this project I used Processing to show two forms of data representation: one that communicates the data as clearly as possible, the second aims to address the unique nature of the data.
In the second data representation, I wanted to comment on what the global temperature differences might mean for us. The background image is of a forest being conserved through the Arnold Arboretum. The data layer is a visualization of global surface temperature differences (in celsius) from 1850-2009.The circles that climb the tree are scaled proportionally to the temperature differences— and two colors range from cold (at 1850) to warm (at 2009). The layering is to evoke tree ring imagery and at the same time demonstrate the invasiveness of humans in our forests.
While we may not feel these slight changes in our daily life, the trees around us feel them acutely— as well as being affected by constant human disturbance.
Our forests are changing— whether from direct human disturbance such as logging and construction, or indirect human disturbance that may cause these slight increases in temperature as well as other changes in the atmosphere that lead to a changed climate.
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Beech leaves, wrapped to form a lightbulb shade.
This piece addresses the question: what does climate change mean to us and our surroundings, on a daily basis?
I analyzed data of temperature anomalies since 1850. I then mapped this data to a pattern and used the laser cutter to print this pattern on each of the leaves that I sculpted into a light shade.The cutout circles are big when there were big shifts, small with small shifts in temperature. Temperature anomalies mean that leaves age, color, and fall in different ways than they do during average temperature years.
Temperature anomalies mean that leaves age, color, and fall in different ways than they do during average temperature years. While global surface temperature differences for the past 200 years may seem like a broad swath of information, bringing it down to a human scale is important. Printing the information on leaves and adding these leaves to a light allows us to experience the information daily and consider what it might mean. Embedding the information in leaves gives a clue to the meaning— that these changes affect the trees and forests around us quite quickly and deeply.
This project is important as it shows the possibilities of including data and information in everyday objects around us in a thoughtful, non-obtrusive way.
The project has its own page at: temperatureslight.com
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La Serviette, a short video by me, Jee Won Kim, Phil Groman and Michelle Boisson. Inspired by the Breathless trailer, our interest in languages and translation as it combined with serendipity.
In this piece, I used the software Processing to make a clock-like animation where the mouse controls the size of the clock but the hands on the clock are always tied to that mouse movement— a comment on space, time, and our desire to be able to speed up or slow down time.
You can play with the clock here.
This project is a web and mobile application that allows users to search a database of gardens for one in specific neighborhoods, seasons, or with certain features. I made it for the Introduction to Web class at ITP.
I asked my mother, the author of Garden Guide: New York City to add information about each garden in her book into a database.
I then created various ways to navigate this information and presented it in a simple format such that users can access it on mobile phones— allowing people to explore a nearby garden if they are at leisure— perhaps taking their lunch or coffee outside.
Language: ruby.
Click through to my jewelry portfolio— ABB Jewelry Designs.
I have been making jewelry since I was 13 years old.
I use a combination of wire, semi-precious stones, charms and other materials such as leather or silk. I am partial to hammering gold and then using the pieces in different ways— from hanging off the necklace to being the necklace itself. I also like wrapping thick wire in minuscule curls that nevertheless depend on the strength of the shape that they cover.
I always wear my products to check their strength and “user-test” them on anyone near me to be sure of their solid design.
My color and stone palette is:
Garnet for the warm reds and browns—
Aquamarine for the transparent, icy green-ish blue. Aquamarine supposedly gives courage and serenity. It was also thought to bring its wearers (or bearers) safety from the sea).
Labradorite and Moonstone are wonderful for their mysterious glints in various lights and angles.
Another favorite is Iolite— its story is that it sends good luck from the giver to the receiver— especially for travelers.
