soft robotics with kings and craft council

education

educationnoun

1.the process of receiving or giving systematic instruction, especially at a school or university. "a course of education“

synonyms:teaching, schooling, tuition, tutoring, instruction, pedagogy, andragogy, coaching, training, tutelage, drilling, preparation, guidance,indoctrination, inculcation, enlightenment, edification, cultivation,development, improvement,

2.an enlightening experience.

educationnoun

1.the process of receiving or giving systematic instruction, especially at a school or university. "a course of education“

synonyms:teaching, schooling, tuition, tutoring, instruction, pedagogy, andragogy, coaching, training, tutelage, drilling, preparation, guidance,indoctrination, inculcation, enlightenment, edification, cultivation,development, improvement,

2.an enlightening experience.

opportunity

opportunitynoun1.a time or set of circumstances that makes it possible to do something. synonyms: chance, golden opportunity, time, occasion, favourable time/occasion/moment, opening, option,right set of circumstances, moment, turn, go, field day appropriate time/occasion/moment, good time, slotsuitable time/occasion/moment, lucky chance, opportune time/occasion/moment, window (of opportunity),

2. a chance for employment or promotion.

opportunitynoun1.a time or set of circumstances that makes it possible to do something. synonyms: chance, golden opportunity, time, occasion, favourable time/occasion/moment, opening, option,right set of circumstances, moment, turn, go, field day appropriate time/occasion/moment, good time, slotsuitable time/occasion/moment, lucky chance, opportune time/occasion/moment, window (of opportunity),

2. a chance for employment or promotion.

prepare for opportunity

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity" Seneca

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity Seneca

http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/what-we-do/parallel-practices

apply

Describe your practice and the way you work in no more than 200 words.

Outline a collaborative project, exhibition, competition, commission or work that has been progressed through research and describe how it pushed your practice forward and your key highlights in no more than 300 words.

Explain how a collaboration with a medical professional would help you to explore or progress your thinking and craft practice in no more than 300 words.

• Describe your practice and the way you work in no more than 200 words * The book is viewed as a tool with which to contain and communicate content directly, it is a form whose purpose has been understood in these terms for many years. Redirecting the books role challenges this notion, working within this new model creates a space for an audience to re-think book. The sculptural forms I make are derived from examining the possibilities presented whilst exploring the essence of what a book is; spaces in time, sequence, order, notions of revelation, intimacy, accessibility, control, narrative and communication – bookness. My re-imaging of book focuses on exploring the idea of form becoming content and enabling multiple narratives to be developed by manipulating the work in the hand. This leaves space for the viewer, giving them time to connect, look, and consider, creating the opportunity for a reflective experience.The hybrid nature of the work positions itself conceptually and physically between and within the idea of sculpture and of book; the work has its roots in both forms. This shifting of purpose initiates in the reader/viewer a paradigm shift; the work becomes a question rather than an answer, a collaboration in the mind and hand between maker and reader/viewer.

• Outline a collaborative project, exhibition, competition, commission or work that has been progressed through research and describe how it pushed your practice forward and your key highlights in no more than 300 words. * I worked on Journey to the podium, a commission for Essex County Council, to create a collaborative work with an athlete for the 2012 Olympics. Working with Dan Bentley, a paralympian gold medal Boccia player we created a piece that connected the audience to the experience of Boccia. I saw the commission as an opportunity to examine the parallels between art and sport, looking specifically at the idea of repetition, the position of practice, the labour behind the image of our professions. When working with Dan it was important to find connections to enable us to collaborate. We explored the parallels between the art exhibition and the public competitive sporting performance. We decided to make the hidden processes in our lives public.I documented Dan’s training through video and examined it to determine the game-play, Dan’s technique and the dynamics of the balls on the court. This led to developing appropriate structures to explore, rethink and express the issue of repetition within a set of rules. The rigorous exploration of paper folding to explore and determine game play and which set out to actually controlled hand movements was one strand of very practical research. I also pursued a research strand from my teaching role on the Book Art MA at Camberwell - exploration of traditional and contemporary book structures.When reflecting on the work we had undertaken discussion led to issues around strategy, control and dissemination. The opportunity to see the game represented through folded paper in the form of a non-linear book structures with all its inherent qualities enabled a new understanding – a reimagining. The work was editioned, exhibited and purchased by a number of collections including the Tate Gallery. This validated the aesthetic value of the piece alongside its role as a tool for learning.

• Explain how a collaboration with a medical professional would help you to explore or progress your thinking and craft practice in no more than 300 words .

When developing successful creative solutions to material problems makers undertake a rigorous, investigative methodology to a specific subject matter.Repetitive acts which lead to revelation through reflection is an approach that could be explored by a medical professional. Working in collaboration within this framework would be an opportunity to examine systems utilized by others and through reflection those used by myself.The books relationship to the body is fundamental – the language of book (spine, head, and toe) is rooted in its making. The touching and handling of book structures and how their functionality controls our movement and vice versa was an issue I began to explore in a recently completed project entitled unpicking and rebinding. The projects core concern was to create new entry points for exploring and utilising collections whist mapping the process of accessing museums for visual research. Working with staff and volunteers in a range of situations I encountered new ways of working and thinking. This exchange of information led to the recognition and exploration of the ergonomics of creative activity.Through this accumulation and exchange of knowledge I learnt a number of traditional skills and individual approaches to making which continue to inform my practice. Reflecting on and developing these new acquisitions has meant that I have been able to expand my conceptual and practical ‘tool kit’. This has facilitated a more experimental approach when making work. It would be intriguing to consider how the physical properties of the book with its linear sequential narrative has informed and directed our thinking and how digital technology which provides non-linear, multiple narratives will evolve our ways of thinking. Making these forms would enable us to hold and manipulate these new structures in our hands, presenting alternative opportunities to inform our thinking.

interview

connection

Thrishantha Nanayakkara was a senior lecturer in the faculty of engineering at the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, till 2007, where he won the outstanding researcher award. He has been a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University, USA, and a research affiliate at MIT, USA. At present, he is a senior lecturer in the department of Informatics, King’s College London. His current research interests are in soft robotics, and robotic interaction with uncertain environments. He is the technical manager of the EU funded STIFF_FLOP research consortium that consists of 12 European partners, and one of the founders of the London Robotics Network. He has published one textbook, and more than 70 peer reviewed international journal and conference papers.

Naomi Mcintosh is preoccupied by the body and how we can use jewellery and objects to reveals it’s landscape. By using an architectural background, she manipulates scale, transforms two dimensional surfaces into three dimensional forms and experiments using pattern, lines and planes to create volumes and spaces, that are reconfigured with the movement of the body. Mcintosh’s practice involves hand drawings of the body, exploring the surface of the skin, with 3D body scans, casting and laser cutting. The dynamic sculptural and precise pieces in woods, precious metals and perspex, investigate how volumes, patterns, planes and forms that surround the surface of the skin are perceived.

soft robotics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=949eYdEz3Es

proposal

1.Innovation is the trialling and testing of ideas leading to new practice, policy or production. What idea are you hoping to test or trial and how do you propose to challenge and expand your practice? (do not exceed 500 characters)2.Is there evidence that this idea has not been previously tested? (do not exceed 500 characters) 3. How, in practice, would you work in partnership to test/explore the idea? (do not exceed 500 characters)4. Through this exploration, what outputs might be generated? (do not exceed 500 characters)5. In relation to academic, artistic or cultural practice, policy, production - what could be new or different if the project is a success? (do not exceed 500 characters)6.How might the project impact on wider cultural and/or, policy and/or creative production? (do not exceed 500 characters)7. What can the partners do together that they could not achieve on their own? (do not exceed 500 characters)8. What would be the underpinning research and area of professional expertise informing this project? (do not exceed 500 characters)9. How might the project inform or develop academic research and teaching? Please indicate if it could inform the REF. (do not exceed 500 characters)10. If applicable, could there be a public-facing dimension to the project? (do not exceed 500 characters)11. How would you budget for the £8000 committed to your residency, should your application be successful? Include a breakdown of costs if possible (this might include materials, peoples' time, workshops, seminars or exhibitions etc) (do not exceed 500 characters)12. What would success look like? (do not exceed 500 characters)

planning

13. The residencies will run for four months, from September until December 2014. Please provide a project timeline covering these months. (do not exceed 500 characters)

Sept Oct Nov Dec Jan

Development of shared vocabulary

Creating initial structures

Developing structures

Developing structures collaboratively

Creation of final models

Mapping project

Team meetings

Developing exhibition

Creation of educational material

Evaluation

Intro meeting

Mid-point pres

Progress meetings

Showcase

White-papers

13. The residencies will run for four months, from September until December 2014. Please provide a project timeline covering these months. (do not exceed 500 characters)

Soft Robotics - Squeeze Fold Bend and Expand - Structural Memory in Deformable Objects.

A project in collaboration with The Crafts Council and Kings College London working with Thrishantha Nanayakkara, Naomi Mcintosh and Nantachai Sornkarn.

http://de-reform.blogspot.co.uk/

control

first visit

research

framework

blog

http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/articles/craft-and-healthcare/

research testing sampling designing finished pieces

relevance

share

editing

choice

collaboration

hybrid

flip an idea

testing

workshop

reflection

problem solve

documentation

other

sampling

breaking rules

materials

more other

rethink

http://de-reform.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/foldfoldfoldfoldingmachines.html

more testing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HqKwnRKDQI&feature=youtu.be ://youtu.be/5HqKwnRKDQI

more testing

versions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfOVMb5ecsk&feature=youtu.be

steal

refine

http://de-reform.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/somelightthoughts.html

production

knowing

more reflection

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SvGQB9Vk-c

http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/what-we-do/parallel-practices/

http://de-reform.blogspot.co.uk/