“Technology is not neutral. We're inside of what we make, and it's inside of us. We're living in a world of connections — and it matters which ones get made and unmade.”
- Donna J. Haraway

 

The Embodisuit allows its wearer to map signals onto different places on their body. It both critiques and offers an alternative to current trends in wearable technology.

Most wearables harvest data from their users to be sent and processed elsewhere. The Embodisuit flips this paradigm. Informed by embodied cognition, the suit instead receives signals from an IoT platform, allowing the wearer to map personally chosen signals to modular haptic actuators on the body. Knowledge is experienced ambiently without necessitating the interpretation of symbols by the conscious mind.

The suit empowers wearers to reconfigure the boundaries of their selves, strengthening their connection to the people, places, and things that are meaningful to them. We hypothesize that by changing the way people live with data, it will change the type of data that people create.

A film by Oliver David   |   Stills - Rachel Freire   |   Model - Alexandra Groover

 

EMBODISUIT V1:

 
 

ETEXTILE PROTOTYPE:

 

This project builds on material experiments and processes explored in SECOND SKIN. Go to the project page for more examples of etextiles, connectors and stretch electronics.
The Embodisuit was designed and made in collaboration with Sophia Brueckner at Autodesk Pier 9 Residency Program, San Francisco, Spring 2017

 
 

ETEXTILE CONNECTORS: 

Experiments in bridging the hard/soft connection points in a way which is physically and electrically stable. This project requires solutions to quickly connect and re-route circuits. Follow the links for flickr galleries of connector experiements and to see the results from a workshop at etextiles summercamp or click on the images for galleries and tutorials:

TUTORIAL - 3D PRINTED STRETCH SEAMS

TUTORIAL - SAFETY PIN CROCODILE CLIPS

TUTORIAL - SEWABLE WIRES WITH STITCHING LOOPS [STEP 9]

TUTORIAL - 3D PRINTED CONDUCTIVE SNAPS

FLICKR GALLERIES:

ETEXTILE CONNECTORS
MAKING ETEXTILE CONNECTORS - WORKSHOP
3D PRINTED CONDUCTIVE SNAPS