Textile Braille Nsalu Yakuda by Cristina Orozco Cuevas is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2014 Mphoto ya Siliva ya A' Design Award in Mapangidwe a Nsalu, Zovalira, Mitundu ndi Zovala Competition Category.
SilivaNsalu· 2014
Textile Braille Nsalu Yakuda
Client: Cristina Orozco Cuevas
Mphoto ya Siliva ya A' Design Award Winner in Nsalu Category
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About Textile Braille Nsalu Yakuda
Makina opanga zovala padziko lonse lapansi amaganiza ngati otanthauzira anthu akhungu. Chovala ichi chitha kuwerengeka ndi anthu omwe ali ndi mawonekedwe abwino ndikuwapangira kuti azithandiza anthu akhungu omwe akuyamba kuiwala kapena omwe ali ndi vuto la masomphenya; kuti muphunzire dongosolo la braille lokhala ndiubwenzi komanso zofala: nsalu. Muli zilembo, manambala ndi zizindikiro zopumira. Palibe mitundu yowonjezedwa. Ndi chinthu chopangidwa ndi imvi pamlingo wopanda tanthauzo. Ndi pulojekiti yokhala ndi tanthauzo lenileni komanso yopitilira zovala zamalonda.
The Recognition
About the Mphoto ya Siliva ya A' Design Award
Textile Braille Nsalu Yakuda ndi mmodzi mwa opambana a Mphoto ya Siliva ya A' Design Award, kuzindikirika kolemekezeka modabwitsa komwe kumaperekedwa kwa mapangidwe a pamwamba, okongola ndi ochititsa chidwi. Opambana a Siliva ndi ntchito zowala kwambiri ndi zolenga kwambiri zomwe zimaonetsa ukatswiri, luso ndi nzeru zakuthwa za opanga awo. Textile Braille Nsalu Yakuda akuyembekezeka kukhala ntchito yodabwitsa yoonetsedwa, yaukatswiri wapadera ndi yatsopano kwambiri. Mapangidwe opambana Mphoto ya Siliva ya A' Design Award awa ndi chopangidwa chodziwika kwambiri ndi choyamikiridwa chomwe chimapindulitsa ndi kukulitsa malire a luso, sayansi, kapangidwe ndi ukadaulo. Textile Braille Nsalu Yakuda ndi cholengedwa chomwe anthu ambiri amachichitira nsanje, chomwe chimadzutsa zilakolako, kubweretsa maganizo abwino ndi kuyatsa kudabwa ndi chidwi.
Behind the Design
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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
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