Image above: Joining the dots to further view the silhouette in shapes
Author: Faseeh Saleem
Written paper
Body as moving structure in Fashion Design processes
ADADA + CUMULUS 2021 Proceedings of the 19th annual conference of Asia Digital Art and Design Association, 2021
The human body movement is idiosyncratic and always challenging to document. This research explores ephemeral body movements and their documentation through the body-machine interface. The aim is to explore the body’s aesthetics and find possibilities of the use of the body as a moving structure in fashion design processes. These ephemeral body movements are documented through an installation setup consisting of a computer, posenet (the machine learning model), camera both video and computer screen. This reflects on how the machine interface translates the body and its movement through embodied interaction. The human body is translated into seventeen dots forming new bodily expressions based on the spatial level and structural characteristics of it while moving. The installation setup serves as a method in general or in fashion design processes to create alternative design expressions.
Keywords: Design methodology, embodied interaction, kinesthetics, fashion design
