DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY OUTPUT (CEM)
PROFESSORS: VICTOR VALENCIA AND ROCÍO RUÍZ
FIRST BLOCK / TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION
Collaborative project with Fragments and Forms. The students needed to design of an interactive experience using an artifact built using digital manufacturing techniques that can receive quantifiable biosignals and translate it into tangible visual elements. The goal is to explore new technology applications for training partner Mirai Innovations, located in Osaka, Japan, from an artistic, aesthetic and perceptual point of view.
OPUS MAGNUM
Daphne Alejandra Hidalgo, Frida Desire Razo and César Arath Ríos López
Our brain is a complex structure, a tangle of feelings and thoughts that often coexist generating chaos. Especially in stressful situations where our mind is saturated, on the other hand, when we relax, our thoughts are organized and we are able to better connect with our feelings.
EUSTRES AND DISTRES
Mónica Andrea León, Franco O’Reilly and Ximena Islas Menez
Throughout history we have been exposed to levels of natural stress, however with globalization, it has become harmful. By capturing brain waves we generate a representation of normal stress levels, reminding us that stress is good, and that we really need it to be able to adapt to various situations.
SECOND BLOCK / EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
Collaborative project with Phil Balgatas. The students needed to design an Hypothetical product design based on emerging technologies by developing a product concept focused on the needs of a future user. The goal is to explore new technology applications for training partner Mirai Innovations, located in Osaka, Japan, from a disruptive, technological and speculative point of view.
BOOND
Ana Paula Tovar Moreno, Ximena Islas and Verónica Zendejas Alanís
Women need to know what is happening to their body in order to understand and take care of it when they are in their menstruation cycle. Today blood tests are very expensive and unfortunately we need this information to understand our body. In Mexico we lack a culture of prevention and that is why we know that something is wrong until it is too late.
ENERGY SKIN COLLECTION
Mónica Andrea León, José Carlos Ortiz and Frida Desire Razo
The experiences and moments of life are based on a basic concept, movement, which can be the trigger for change or the force of balance. Physical effort is a common energy source that provides enough energy to develop storage that can give our gadgets a reliable and efficient source of energy.
ARTIFICIAL EMPATHY
Daphne Alejandra Hidalgo, Franco O’Reilly and César Arath Ríos
Non-invasive deep stimulation, with which we can stimulate the prefrontal cortex, in the frontopolar and dorsolateral areas in the form of patterns, can be used in convicts, whose social reinsertion process can be accompanied by this therapy to prevent them from relapsing, using stimuli with virtual experiences in situations that will allow to generate empathy.
THIRD BLOCK / SMART MATERIALS
This training unit comprises a unique knowledge in the Design curriculum and covers smart materials and meta-materials. Smart materials are those whose chemical composition makes them react in the presence of elements such as temperature, light, electricity, pressure, the presence of water, among others.
In this 5-week course, students learned about: biomaterials, materials with shape memory, thermo-responsive, electroactive, chromogenic, photoluminescent, those which generate electricity or exchange energy.They also learned and experimented with metamaterials (auxetic materials) whose response is determined by their structure and not by their chemical composition. In this case, the structure itself has unique compression characteristics that allow new opportunities in product design to innovate with.
BACK
TRILLIUM
Frida Razo
By detecting increased body heat, this vest opens vents that allow you to regulate body temperature. The upper section is provided with a smart textile made of shape memory thermo-sensitive polyurethane fibers. These fibers contract as body temperature increases, generating a stretch of the auxetic material that makes up the posterior view. This distension opens the auxetic perforations whereby ventilation is achieved.
GROW
José Carlos Ortiz Santillán
Auxetic materials are known by their capabilities to adapt to complex shapes and absorb impact, but they are also visually very attractive. “Grow” seeks to capture the attention from the people in the room. Its auxetic lampshade expands and contracts in all its axes to let out more or less light, turning the lighting of the space into a more interesting experience.
IKOS
Mónica Andrea León Palacios
Meta-materials are those that because of the analysis of their structural composition and ideal distribution, go against our common sense but without being unpredictable, that is why I wanted to capture the elegance, complexity, and adaptability in an object that highlights the calculations of its structure
