Project Diary: Day 7

Can't believe this is day 7!

Ok, today I get my ideas down and get some sketch. So, here they are!

The top one is in a high heel style and has more possibilities of different shapes than the latter one.

The top one actually has three engines, two of them can adjust their direction to make the wearer either go higher or go forward.

While the latter one has two, both of them can change direction. The engines will hide in the sole of the shoes and there will be some kind of "door" to keep the engines in a proper environment so that they will not break because of water or snow.

There are sensors in the bottom of the shoes, so it can get the information of the direction that the wearer wants to go, so the sensor can deliver the message to the engines and decide the direction of the engines.

Oh, and there are zippers on the surface of both shoes.

As for the controllers, the man shoe's controller is on the fort side of the shoe, since that is the part will not be moved. And for the woman's shoe, the controller is on the side of the sole (or maybe it is better to put it in the heel? ). The controller can provide the wearer to decide the appearance of the shoe which is the graphics that will be showed by the screen on the surface of the shoe. The wearer can use blue tooth to upload the graphics to the controller of the shoes and there will be some kind of memory stick to save these graphics. However, the memory will not be bigger than 128M (or 64M?) since we need to keep these things small and it is not necessary to use bigger memory stick. 

Project Diary: Day 6

Ok, I just get all my ideas generated and listed in the earlier post. I went to the Bata Shoe Museum yesterday and got something from these shoes.

I decide to use the marten boots as the fundamental shape of the shoes since these ready-made models could provide possibilities to the use of the zippers and the sole is also heavy enough to put in two engines.

I may also make a high heel series if I have enough time.

For the final, I think I'm going to make a layout of the shoes and make it to some kind of advertising or in a rather commercial style.

I've got the basic things in my mind and I'll post the sketch some time tomorrow.

Device Proposal

Basically my device would be a pair of shoes.

The differences between the shoes I'm going to make and the regular shoes are:

◎ They would satisfy the wearer's aesthetic needs by the movable parts on the shoes that are combined with zippers
◎The surface of the shoes will be covered with small screens so that the wearer can change the graphics on the surface 
◎ For the practical using function, since the parts are combined with zippers, the will be covered by nanophase materials to either protect the screens and making the shoes waterproof
◎ There will be two small engines in the sole of each shoes. These engines can spurt some kind of special particle that can provide the wearer enough power to make them run faster, jump higher and even fly

Body

        The relationship between my body and I is similar to the relationship between the user and object. While the body can be considered as two parts that are body schema and body image. While the body image designates the body as the object or content of intentional consciousness, the body schema characterizes the body as a “prenoetic” function. So from my point of view, the body is dominated by the conscious of the owner’s mind. And on the other hand, for some occasion, the body reacts to the emergency faster than people’s conscious. In these occasions, the body moves itself without consciousness; however, the body is moving under the subconscious.

       The relationship between the body and technology is sort of subtle. The recent researches are greatly focusing on the body movements as well as the reaction of the body. Technology can bring the body with more possibilities and the body on the other hand, helps technology to develop faster and create new things to relief the body from many high-risk environment.

Project Diary: Day 5

I have to write this down...

For the tear-down parts I thought about yesterday, I don't feel it is practical to make these parts in Sketchup and it is not possible to show how these things work. So I came to another solution, I can make zippers on the shoes like these pants that can adjust the length of the pants by moving part of the pants, and each part that is movable is combined by zippers.

P.S. I'm going to the Bata Shoe Museum today and try to get some inspiration from these shoes.  

Project Diary: Day 4

I did got some ideas today about the transformation of the shoe.

The basic form of the shoe would be a winter shoe, and once the wearer want to make a shift between different styles, he/she would only need to tear the specified part of the shoe, and this will not have any influence on the other function.

This is what I've got so far and I will be out of Internet access for one or two days, so I will continue this thing after I get Internet access again.

Project Diary: Day 3

Ummm.....

I've got no idea today....

I was wondering about whether it is possible to do a pair of shoes that can transform from one style to another...

I looked for "concept shoes" on google and find the appearance of most of these shoes are designed with geometric shapes. I also found a pair of shoes that has a speaker on the side and can also work as a CD player.

Project Diary: Day 2

Ok, I thought about several functions of the shoes today, and they are here:

◎They can change their appearance according to the wearer's willing. For this, I thought about adding screen to the surface or make the surface itself as a screen.

◎They can change structures according to the weather and the wearer's need. So the shoes would become a pair of shoes that people can wear it for the whole year and under any occasion.

◎They can enhance the human body abilities. This means that the shoes can make the wearer run faster, jump higher, or even can help people fly.


These ideas sounds simple, but I am not sure whether they will work or not. I'll divide these ideas to more detailed things tomorrow. And I'll upload some of sketches as well.

Project 3 - Embodiment - Project Diary: Day 1

Alright, I just decided to start this project diary to keep myself on track.

Here is what I come up with for the day:

For the project, I choose to do some kind of "sci-fi" shoes that have some special functions.

I did a painting of a part of a sci-fi high heel last year, so I decided to make such a series of sci-fi shoes, or say, future shoes.

However, I am not sure whether to stay with high heels this time since I really don't know much things about high heels...So I'm still seeking for the basic shoe model to work on! 

I found the Mercury shoe pretty interesting and pretty similar to what I have paint in the past. However, wings may not be appropriate, so I need to find a alternate design.    

Furniture modeling