Ocean Wearable Leg-wing (O.W.L.) blueprint for a smartly designed ecosystem and social sustainability proudly exhibited at Demo Eindhoven during Dutch Design Week 2024.
Viviana’s proposal involved an apparel softbotic leg-wing design to innovate our ecosystem and create custom accessories that require merging intelligent manufacturing and computer vision with current paradigms in materials. O. W. L. is both, a speculative softbotic scenario visioning a fashion accessory and soft machine with a moving robotic in smaller human scale that enables natural edibles and aquatic food sensing to aquatic animals. O. W. L. thereby enters aspects of the environment to provide new solutions that help solve the micro- and nanoplastic sea pollution problem in the apparel industry. This, to join efforts in advancing the science, technological translation, and societal impact of educational outreach.
Join us on Friday, 29 November as we will be joining the young creators and innovators of Demo Eindhoven PROJECT NEXTUP, with an Ideation Session platform to open discussion on social sustainability and soft skills.
Viviana’s proposal involved an apparel softbotic leg-wing design to innovate our ecosystem and create custom accessories that require merging intelligent manufacturing and computer vision with current paradigms in materials. O. W. L. is both, a speculative softbotic scenario visioning a fashion accessory and soft machine with a moving robotic in smaller human scale that enables natural edibles and aquatic food sensing to aquatic animals. O. W. L. thereby enters aspects of the environment to provide new solutions that help solve the micro- and nanoplastic sea pollution problem in the apparel industry. This, to join efforts in advancing the science, technological translation, and societal impact of educational outreach.
Join us on Friday, 29 November as we will be joining the young creators and innovators of Demo Eindhoven PROJECT NEXTUP, with an Ideation Session platform to open discussion on social sustainability and soft skills.
Ocean
Wearable
Leg-wing
O. W. L.
A short speculative design artistic production that combines 3-D animation and a sustainable wearable.
O. W. L. is Viviana M. Calderón de la Barca newest Fashion Futuring short production that proposes a scenario where custom manufacturing apparel accessories are only made with natural beads, and in smaller batches when customers need them. The combination of short production cycles and high demand ensures that every wearable created will find a buyer.
Since the global apparel industry is a significant yet overlooked source of (nano) plastic leakage, O. W. L. proposes fashion forecasting to offer a values-driven and sustainability-oriented alternative to fashion futures practices and eliminate the use of plastic.
Plastic pollution is a global environmental threat with potentially irreversible impacts on aquatic life, ecosystems, and human health. Natural materials (including alginate biopolymer) is one solution that can compete with synthetic conventional apparel materials. Natural materials can be employed by manufacturers to put it into prototype and produce fashion accessories responsibly.
Since the global apparel industry is a significant yet overlooked source of (nano) plastic leakage, O. W. L. proposes fashion forecasting to offer a values-driven and sustainability-oriented alternative to fashion futures practices and eliminate the use of plastic.
Plastic pollution is a global environmental threat with potentially irreversible impacts on aquatic life, ecosystems, and human health. Natural materials (including alginate biopolymer) is one solution that can compete with synthetic conventional apparel materials. Natural materials can be employed by manufacturers to put it into prototype and produce fashion accessories responsibly.
DDW Day 2 and behind the scenes:
Behind the scenes. In the making of O. W. L. launched at DEMO during Dutch Design Week (DDW) 2024, with designer and artist Pascal Theron. Photography by Yeugeniia Skydan.
As a cultural entrepreneur and with over twenty years of experience as an educator, through Viviana’s practice we commission young artists and designers to develop stories written, directed and produced for development.
Art photography by Axel Nijboer feat. fashion stylist Eline Gommans sustainable wearable at DEMO Eindhoven during Dutch Design Week 19-27 October.
