Porcelain and play

After the first explorations I decided to mostly work with the beautiful, white Jade porcelain. I was hoping for more control in creating bowls, spoons and plates. The teacher realized my fragile and soil-able work needed some extra care in handling and firing, which was very helpful. Spoons The spoons from the previous session all […]

Performance design

The make-up performance at Damians Dressing Table aims to provide the audience with a (stylized) insight into the intimacy of the performers dressing room. For the performer the make-up performance is meant to stay connected to their own body and the (objects on) the table whilst transitioning into the drag persona Damian and preparing for […]

Damians Dressing Table

Who is Damian? The past couple of post are part of the project “Damians Dressing Table”, but who is Damian? Damian D. Doggy is the drag persona of designer and researcher Danielle Roberts, the creator of this blog. Damian was born a couple of years ago. He is a dragking and helps Danielle to explore […]

Bring things together

Last week Danielle had her mid-term evaluation from WEAR Sustain. I found it interesting to hear about it because as a part of my internship I am also interested how the dependency on a grand feels. She had to show the progress of the project so that the financier can decide if there are enough steps made to further sponsor it. […]

Reflecting intensively on the multidisciplinary collaboration

Last weeks we had a great time working hard on the paper we wrote about the collaboration in a multidisciplinary team. All team members worked hard on the next prototype of the Silence Suit and we made great steps to realize it. Collaboration Paper But first, I want to tell you more about the paper […]

Things come together in Twente

Last week we went to University Twente to meet Vera de Pont, our designer, and Klaas and Stephen, two of the students of DesignLab, working on the electronics and the software of the Silence Suit. It was a very exciting day to me. Before, I did not really know what to expect from the meeting. […]

Design Lab nirvana

Ready, set, go! After a difficult start things are really starting to move. Since a couple of weeks all the team members are working on their individual tasks: the database design, the interaction design, suit design, PCB design and experiment design. The project feels like a sort of organism that grows organically in different directions. […]

Trying to get the complexity of the project

For me the project becomes more and complex. So in this blog post I will try to give you an overview of different aspects of the project around the Silence Suit, the correlations of these aspects and my difficulties with this complexity. Developing the button further To keep it concrete, I will first explain to […]