Touching Me Softly

Summer 2015 Nomadic Studio: Touching me Softly

+FARM 2015 Summer Nomadic Studio: Touching Me Softly, begins at the meeting point of physical and digital space.  The intersection of technology, material, and performative variants led us to consider the potential for making a new type of domestic space – the nomadic dwelling.

The aim of this studio was to consider the dynamic forces of the body, and its systems of mobility to reveal potentials for new spatial relationships, material palettes, component prototypes, and fabrication methodologies to probe toward a new dwelling – a intelligently inhabitable environment for living.

Touching Me Softly, dubbed for its’ soft feel inside-out, measures port side 8′ and hitch 5′.  The lauan interior comfortably sleeps two and easily transforms between sleep and active phases. The nomad is able to cook meals, brew coffee, relax, read, poop, and entertain guests with a digitally projected movie theater – as the dwelling produces up to 1,000 watts of power per day.

15 Student Participants from all around the United States arrived in Perrsyburg, NY to complete this project with a team of 5 professional volunteers. The students designed, fabricated, and constructed the project from concept to completion thus collapsing the nomadic experience into a fluid performative dwelling.

Project Team: Sean Barbe, Monifa Charles, Erin Darnauer, Maksim Drapey, Christin Hu, Nelson De Jesus, Michelle Misciagno, Yuki Nakayama, Aura Phongsirivech, Myah Price, Mark Rakhmanov, Hanson Sohn, Natasha Tsikuonova, Jiachang Ye, Eileen Zhang

Teaching Assitants: Alex Guzman, Jonathan Yates      Instructors: Valerie Arthur, Matei Denes, Lavander Tessmer and William Haskas       Project Manager + Photography: Andrew Nisbet

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