BioLogic_Eskandar_Inst

Artifacts from a Parallel Universe is an electronically enhanced garment designed to help the wearer adapt to temperature changes in their natural environment. As a design for a fictional world called Other Earth, the viewer is asked to consider a place where humans live as nomads in technologically advanced, self-sufficient, and low environmental-impact nodal groups. As conceived by Eskandar, Tentative Architecture is an immaterial architecture that can happen at any time and any place responding to the immediate needs and environment of its wearer - ideally suited to life on Other Earth. This on-demand architecture works with its wearer to regulate body temperature by assisting in ventilation. The garment emulates the breathing of its wearer and its form is inspired by marine coral. This work is both a playful and provocative look at the potential benefits afforded through bio-mimicry and ubiquitous computing. Using galvanic skin response sensors and shape memory alloys embedded in hand knitted and felted wool, Artifacts from a Parallel Universe is a garment born from a Utopian vision where human/machine co-evolution and interaction is beneficial to the preservation of the natural environment.
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