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RePiece: Rethinking Heritage with Circuits

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ceramics electronic cultural identity Brand Design designer service Interaction design
Project Brief:  
What if we could use everyday ceramic objects as computational interfaces? Given new methods of integrating circuits into glazed ceramics, push the design space of Ceramic Circuits.

An 11 week design project (Groups of three)

Link to Professor's page: https://clementzheng.info/Crafting-Ceramic-Circuits
What happens when we mix the historical craft language of porcelain with modern design forms?
ceramics electronic cultural identity Brand Design designer service Interaction design
Take a ceremonial Chinese tea set.

Used usually once during rituals of celebration (e.g, Marriage), they serve afterwards as static decorations in a family's home.

We proposed RePiece, a conceptual design service that turns antique ceramics into quirky home devices through grafted circuits and IoT nodes.
ceramics electronic cultural identity Brand Design designer service Interaction design
ceramics electronic cultural identity Brand Design designer service Interaction design
ceramics electronic cultural identity Brand Design designer service Interaction design
Outcome 1: 

A suite of design language interactions mixing tech affordances with traditional Chinese ceramic Art.

ceramics electronic cultural identity Brand Design designer service Interaction design
ceramics electronic cultural identity Brand Design designer service Interaction design
ceramics electronic cultural identity Brand Design designer service Interaction design
ceramics electronic cultural identity Brand Design designer service Interaction design
Outcome 2: Conceptual devices and UIs as realized through RePiece
ceramics electronic cultural identity Brand Design designer service Interaction design
ceramics electronic cultural identity Brand Design designer service Interaction design
ceramics electronic cultural identity Brand Design designer service Interaction design
Outcome 3: Design journal documenting explorations in crafting methods, culminating in a fully functional MP3 player as a proof of concept.

P5 Sketch Link: https://editor.p5js.org/whksoup/sketches/x8MwAk2bU
RePiece: Rethinking Heritage with Circuits
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