Venous Materials Interaktivt Materiale by Hila Mor is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award i Sølv in Idé og Konceptuelt Design Competition Category.
SølvIdé· 2021
Venous Materials Interaktivt Materiale
by Hila Mor
Client: Tangible Media Group, MIT Media Lab
A' Design Award i Sølv Winner in Idé Category
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The Design
About Venous Materials Interaktivt Materiale
Venous Materials er et blødt interaktivt materiale, der viser dynamiske mønstre som reaktion på berøring. Designet er inspireret af de årestrukturer, der findes i planter, blade og menneskekroppen. Væske bevæger sig gennem interne kanaler, når der påføres tryk eller deformation, hvilket skaber synlige ændringer i farve og mønster. Hvert ark fungerer både som en sensor og som en visning af håndgribelig information. Materialet er fremstillet af PDMS-silikone og ecoline-blæk ved brug af lasergravering og manuelle laboratorieprocesser. Prototyperne måler fra 5 gange 5 centimeter til 15 gange 15 centimeter.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award i Sølv
Venous Materials Interaktivt Materiale er vinder af A' Design Award i Sølv, en usædvanligt prestigefyldt anerkendelse, der tildeles designs i topklasse, som er pragtfulde og imponerende. Sølvvinderne er enormt geniale og overordentlig kreative værker, der illustrerer deres designeres fremragende ekspertise, talent og skarpsindighed. Venous Materials Interaktivt Materiale forventes at være et vidunderligt udstillingsværk, der er bemærkelsesværdigt professionelt og dybt innovativt. Dette design, der har vundet A' Design Award i Sølv, er en højst bemærkelsesværdig, beundret opfindelse, som gavner og flytter grænserne for kunst, videnskab, design og teknologi. Venous Materials Interaktivt Materiale er en skabelse, som mange misunder, og som vækker begær, bringer positive følelser og antænder forundring og undren.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- The Venous Materials project envisions a new way to design dynamic tangible interactions using fluidic structures. It is a new type of dynamic interactive material that is inspired by veins systems in nature: in plants, leaves, and throughout the human body. These Materials respond to user's pressure and motion with dynamic displayed patterns. Venous Materials can animate dynamic graphics, create responsive objects, and to visualize body movement and balance.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The different Venous Materials prototypes are mainly 5cmX5cm, while some of them can get up to 15cmX15cm.
- Tags
- Interaction Design, Material research, Dynamic Graphics, Microfluidics, Computational Aided Design, Sensors and Displays, Venous Structures
- Production Technology
- Venous Materials technology developed through research on current Microfluidics,that is specifically designed for human interaction and UX design. A specilized computational tool was developed for the design process and to simulate and visualize of the color change and display of the flow within the material, according to the user input. Production process involves laser engraving and manual lab processes. Materials used are PDMS silicone and ecoline ink.
- Design Challenge
- While current computer chips and electronics usually require rigid and bulky components that challenges the integration with varied objects or fabrics, Venous Materials is soft and self-contained mechanism that utilizes the motion of daily activities as its energy source. Design of micro-fluid dynamics is not intuitive task, our approach and computational tool allows the design, simulation, and prototyping of fluidic interactive sensors that can be embedded in, or attached to, any object.
- Research
- This work present design and fabrication methods for interactive fluidic mechanisms that respond to deformation by mechanical inputs from the user. The Venous design tool provides designers with a simple way to create and validate designs of fluidic structures. It allows users to design the geometry, and simulate the flow with intended mechanical force dynamically. This leads to Interactive applications of Venous Materials, to augment human movement and everyday objects.
- Inspiration
- This project is inspired by venous structures that are ubiquitous throughout nature and in the human body. By changing colors, veins can inform us of internal and external physical conditions. For example, veins in leaves transmit pigments that drive color change, which informs us of the internal condition of the leaf and which season it is. When we press firmly on a button, the tip of our finger changes its color, this subtle color change can be used to indicate the applied pressure.
- Project Duration
- The project started June 2019 and finished April 2020 in Cambridge, MA, at the MIT Media Lab, Tangible Media group
- Operation Flow
- The displayed flow pattern and color change of the fluidic channels within Venous Materials inform the users of the motion and physical force that is applied on the material. The users can interact with Venous Materials by deforming or applying pressure on the material, which drives the fluid flow within the internal channels to visualize the dynamic responsive display. Therefore, Venous Materials simultaneously functions as a sensor and display of tangible information.
- Patents
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Tangible Media Group / MIT Media Lab - Team Members
- Hila Mor
Tianyu Yu
Ken Nakagaki
Benjamin Harvey Miller
Yichen Jia
Hiroshi Ishii - Image Credits
- All Photo/video credit to Tangible Media Group, MIT Media Lab
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