Textile Braille Akwa Tactile by Cristina Orozco Cuevas

Textile Braille Akwa Tactile by Cristina Orozco Cuevas is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2014 Ihe Nrite A' Design Award nke Ọlaọcha in Nhazi Akwa, Ụdị Akwa, Ụdị Elu, Ụkpụrụ na Akwa Uwe Competition Category.

ỌlaọchaAkwa· 2014

Textile Braille Akwa Tactile

by Cristina Orozco Cuevas

Client: Cristina Orozco Cuevas

Ihe Nrite A' Design Award nke Ọlaọcha Winner in Akwa Category

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The Design

About Textile Braille Akwa Tactile

Industrial Universal jacquard textile chere dị ka onye ntụgharị maka ndị ìsì. Ndị nwere ezigbo anya nwere ike ịgụ akwụkwọ a iji mụta usoro braille site na iji ya eme ihe na nke ọzọ: akwa. O nwere mkpụrụedemede, akara na akara edemede. Odighi agba agbakwunye. Ọ bụ ngwaahịa dị na ọkwa isi awọ dị ka ụkpụrụ nke enweghị nghọta. O bu oru ngo nke putara ihe n’etiti ndi mmadu ma gabiga ihe ndi ozo.

The Recognition

About the Ihe Nrite A' Design Award nke Ọlaọcha

Textile Braille Akwa Tactile meriri A' Design Award nke Ọlaọcha, nnabata dị oke ugwu e nyere design ndị dị n'ọkwa kachasị elu, mara mma ma na-eju anya. Ndị meriri na Ọlaọcha bụ ọrụ na-egbu maramara nke ukwuu ma dị oke nzụlite nke na-egosi ọmarịcha ihe ọmụma, talent na nghọta nke ndị designer ha. A na-atụ anya na Textile Braille Akwa Tactile ga-abụ ọrụ dị ịtụnanya, ihe nlereanya, nke dị oke ọrụ ma dị omimi n'ihe ọhụrụ. Design a meriri A' Design Award nke Ọlaọcha bụ ihe e mepụtara dị oke ịrịba ama, nke a na-eto nke na-erite uru ma na-ebuga oke nka, sayensị, design na teknụzụ n'ihu. Textile Braille Akwa Tactile bụ ihe e kere eke ọtụtụ ndị na-ekwo ekworo ya nke na-akpali ọchịchọ, na-eweta mmetụta ọma ma na-akpali ịtụnanya.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: Industrial weave thought as a transalator for blinded people or visually impaired.This fabric can be read by people with good sight and it is intended for them to help blinded people or people that are starting to have vision problems to make a progress while learning at the same time. It is developed on greys because it applies the principle of no light perception. it contains alphabet, numbers, punction marks and more.
Dimensions & Packaging: Width of 1.40 meters. Rapport repeat: 35 cm width x 27 cm height
Tags: Jacquard, braille, fabric, blind sight, textile, grey, educational, textile, socially friendly, identity
Production Technology: Polyester dyed in black and grey yarns woven in electronic jacquard looms. Sandwich special weave technique, satines and tafeta weaves.
Design Challenge: The first test to do a textile was using just some techniques of yarns with different thickness. The result was weak so the project stopped untill I found a technique of weaves that uses three yarns on three layers. The most important layer is the last one, because it uses a very thick yarns which pushes the middle yarn. The principal yarn uses very opened weaves so it allows to make the volume visible and touchable. All the horizontal yarns had to be tors threads because without them the fabric could have hook problems with machines.
Research: I made for months a research on weave techniques and yarns interaction in order to get the aproppiate volume in order to work for real not just for a prototype.I presented to a special organization for blinded people and they said it really work and people could read the points or cells in grey. Also it was easy for the interpreter to get close to braille language. It can be calisified as a non-commercial textile but it can be used on campaigns even woven with colors to support entities or organizations.
Inspiration: The inspiration starts to find other more friendly materials to instruct and learn the braille system than paper and metal plaques, using and studying the braille system of six points or cells.
Project Duration: This project started in November, 2010 and finished in april, 2011. It has been exhibited in Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Central de Diseño, Matadero-Madrid, Zaragoza, Perú and Ecuador.
Operation Flow: The people with difficulty of sight learn the alphabet by touching the six points of the braille reading from left to right. The helper reads the letters and touches too the braille. The idea accomplished is that people with low resources that cannot acces to special attention in order to learn can have a piece of fabric on their own placea. Fabrics are more frienfly to touch than paper or metal.
Team Members: Cristina Orozco Cuevas