Term one crit

The project is about the recording process of the body motion ...
It's the initial experiment for my research.

tracing object

Swamp

Forest

Cliff

The texts and image of the reorganisation of thoughts

[About design thoughts]
From nine ideas, nomad and the movement of figures are considered as the most important part of design concepts. The continuous landscape reflects to nomad the different environments. According to the definition of nomad, it is the communities of people that move with herd animals from one place to another. When the foods run out, the subjects start to move to next field. It is a motive for people to change the living field and there will be an interface between two fields (original and new). Therefore, there is an interesting dialogue between the speed of the movement and the 'food' in the environment.(speed will be slower when there's more food and faster speed with less food) The dialogues are between the footprints and the environments.

[About adding Object]
Object is a part of human body. It records the traces of nomad - footprints.
Firstly, the key point of mobility is the movement of legs. It might be like a sewing machine on the body to tattoo the landscape in the environments.
The trails of nomadic move reflect the environmental status and the object reflects the status of regional creatures (food, insects, etc.). Therefore, the object with the body is used to travel in the environment and record the regional data where the object passes. The object collects the datum of the environments and provide the basic information for the next move to a new field.

Following is a graph showing how to tattoo a traceable landscape on skin :

The trail of movement from human body

I think the two pictures try to record the trace and moment of human's movement.
In the first one, the white trace of dancer also leave kind of relationship with the spcae and human body.
The second give me the prime idea of the blink although they are doing the similar motion.

Notating the fragments of movement

I use the successive photographs to record the nomandic movements, which is walk and runs, and set the notation on the background. In these series, actions, distances, times and speed give some bases of movement. However, I think it still needs to consider the relationship of figure and environment.

The drawing of 1111 crit

The traces of object in environments

Nomadic active: Mobile and Portable

PROJECT: 'FLEXSPACE TEMPORARY HABITAT'
CONCEPT:

PROTOTYPE: Because human is the most important factor in any habitats, habitats cannot illustrate their value If nobody utilizes it. The concept of this temporary habitat is to use human body as a part of its structure. If nobody is inside, this habitat would collapse and become just a junk. On the other hand, if we dwell in it and use our body as a part of its structure, this junk cardboard can provide a flexible personal space for us. Form and space of this habitat can be adjusted to many patterns depending on different activities.

The drawing about Nomadic objects in 3 evnrionments

This drawing is based on the previous thoughts - 3 environments (cliff, forest, swamp) are a continuous landscape and the 9 curiosities of the study object (knee) having picnic in the 3 environments.
The main concept of this drawing is NOMAD and I used the figures to connect all the other curiosities when imaging the object having picnic in 3 environments. Based on the moving principles of legs, knee is an important hinge to control the movement of legs. This is why I chose ‘the knee’ as my study object, and to connect the 9 curiosities. In the study process, I always keep the relations between the nomadic body movements and the environments in mind.
Next, I started to draw arcs to trace the motions and also gave them notations. The continuous motions represent how to travel or picnic in 3 environments (Cliff: a vertical running movement; Forest: 2 parts - one is running through the trunks of trees and the other is through the thickets of treetop; Swamp: amphibian move out from underwater to land). Also, using line graph to present the energy and speed of the moving object The density of line presents moving pace (the higher density shows faster pace and the larger graph presents more energy used.
In this drawing, 2 nomadic journeys are shown - in continuous landscape (rushing out water - through trunk of trees / thickets of trees - climbing to the top of cliff)
The next step, I think I should strengthen the ideas from 9 curiosities, such as Visual camouflage and the interaction of dynamic events. Maybe use photographic / lines / notations, etc.

Nomadic Object

I'm thinking the most inportant motion of nomad.

so I try to record the motion of legs.

The knee is a hinge of leg to control the body movement.

I separate 3 parts of the motion when people run or walk.

Then picnic in environment...

Study From: Hussein Chalayan

Relate to skin and topology

the idea of landscape

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=WRX-3DDBow0&feature=related

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4DSJi-dqVmc&feature=related

Having picnic in 3 environments

I re-study my 9 ideas and 3 environments then thinking how to have picnic.

This case stands on the first week's work( the ideas is a countinous terrian, the density of level and representation of 'boundary', 'speed', and 'agile' ).

This countinous terrian (the below graph ), I used the graphic I took from Kew as a guide to construct and also thinking my 9 ideas.

Swamp(left) presents the character of amphibian

Forest presents two level of space (the trunks of trees and the clumps).

Cliff presents a vertical level with some details cover the cliff (rocks and plants)

Finally, I'm thinking countinous paths to run through three environments at the same time, also thinking about the ideas: Nomads, Body and Figure, and dynamic movement ...

'Nine' Curiosities

Curiosity: 1
Behaviour: Nomad
LIFE STYLE: Live / Migration / Activities with environment
A kind of mobile lifestyle in different environments / the definition of nomad can reflect on other issues.

Curiosity: 2
Ideas of ‘Topology’ : from the principle of fashion design industries
"Topology, often called "flexible geometry", is characterized and symbolized by the viewpoint that a circle and a triangle are equal.”......... Eri Matsui

Curiosity: 3
The process (time) in ecology of animation - using ways to record the process
"Animation is a term that differs from motion, while motion implies movement and action, animation implies the evolution of a form and its shaping forces."......... Greg Lynn

Curiosity: 4
The movement or figure of organism or plant or human beings
Observe the principle of movement which are from human being’s figure or creatures or natural phenomenon then transform it as the prototype of structure

Curiosity: 5
The definition of field and boundary
Based on the previous thought, the work of ‘self-portrait workshop’, it discovers the field which we identify from sense between human and the environment and notate it.

Curiosity: 6
Visual camouflage
As the pictures, The blank check (Magritte) and the below one, it make characters in the frames and environments hard recognise or reorganise a new vision by using the visual skill (effects).

Curiosity: 7
The interaction of dynamic events
Caused by communications between Human and other creatures

Curiosity: 8
Ecology in-between the Nature and the Urban environment
Imagination link with social phenomenon
phenomenon: Social events / Crowds

Curiosity: 9
The eco-issue
Science knowledge connects with human beings and environment – recycle / the system of using environment / destruction of ecology
For example: human’s bone can clean the water / the image of rain forest suffers economical impact

Week_1 Works

Three environments line drawing

From left to right : SWAMP, FOREST , CLIFF

I think I misunderstood the requirment for A1drawings.

I guess it shound use some 'translation' from my thoughts for this three.

Therefore, the result become too abstract.

In this case, I used the desity of lines to represent 'the different level of terrain' of three environment. And then it also repsents 'boundary', 'speed', and 'agile' of environment.

Finally, the banding lines which is continous and dynamic show the 'agile' movement of environment.

It's a kind of dynamic motion in these three sites and also represents from low to hight speed when beings shuttle there.

the Workshops : Self -portrait & Situation drawing

SELF-PORRAIT ‘My boundary, my field’

This project aims to find an individual way to portrait one of my characteristic for others. Every day we have a number of chances to connect with crowds on the Tube, in bus stop and underground station, staying in a square, in classroom and so on. For me, crowds have an important meaning for me because I would like to stay with people and do my works then feel somebody around me. However, I can feel my space is changing. This is not because of the real architectural space. It’s based on the people who are around or pass me. The crowds defined my field or boundary (we also say space). Therefore, I tried to identify the boundary which I stay in and using the camera and sketch to record the people who have the identify meaning of my boundary. In this case, the crowds are not all the people surround me and it means I can remember at every recording time. So, I choose three places which I usually stay everyday to record – the court yard of UCL accommodation, the main entrance of UCL, the Kings cross station Final presentation – I made a ‘boundary portfolio’. It shows the segments which record every 30 seconds the people who are surround me and I can record. Also, over lapping segments shows my field when I am in that place. This project let me recognize the perception of the field which I belong and rethinking how to portrait things in the different aspects.

Situation Drawing

Firstly, projecting the adjacent situation, which is above and below my desk, is regard as clues on the paper to record the environment surrounding me. And then adding the elements of graphic information system and flyer markings in the situation paper aims to reorganise and redefine the linear spaces on the paper. This is for representing a kind of site condition under certain situation.
The other step is to draw the sections and elevations of the door pivot in the studio, and then to add the perspective of one part of it. The sections and elevations are reformed and reconstructed to represent a structure of a ‘building’ (plan and section).
Finally, decomposing the ‘site’ and inserting the ‘building’ by considering the condition of the site and the building. It presents a high-tension structure which is suspended in between the two sites at a high level. The information signals and the lines on the site are used as a hint to connect the ‘building’ and the site.

Browsing and thinking

Magritte_The blank check - Camouflage ?

Multi-Touch Interaction
While touch sensing is commonplace for single points of contact, multi-touch sensing enables a user to interact with a system with more than one finger at a time, as in chording and bi-manual operations. Such sensing devices are inherently also able to accommodate multiple users simultaneously, which is especially useful for larger interaction scenarios such as interactive walls and tabletops.

http://www.perceptivepixel.com/

Open eye

ERI MATSUI
Topology, often called "flexible geometry,"is characterized and symbolized by the viewpoint that a circle and a triangle are equal.

LUNAR LONGING
In the October 18, 1952, issue of Collier's, von Braun imagines man's first trip to the moon. He sketched out the "orbit-to-orbit space ship," which he designed to transport people from a space station to lunar orbit. The 190-foot- (58-meter-) tall spaceship houses 50 astronauts in its top sphere. The ship carries a radio dish for communication and a "solar mirror" for energy. Von Braun wrote that the sun's heat would vaporize the element mercury to drive a generator.

FUTURE BOUND
"3-Stage Satellite Vehicle" shows a 24-story rocket ship weighing 7,000 tons (the equivalent of about 1,400 elephants).