Development 5 - The Hoop 2

Development playing with rearranging textures and adding small bars of contrasting texture for interest. I'm thinking about swapping some of the material for more realistic textures so as to enable easier recognition and association for the narratives created by the users.

Development 4 - The Hoop

This fulfills the criteria that the loop has to be uninterrupted to convey the story properly. However, in this version, I put characters on the top side and underlying narrative on the underside and this was too complex for the user as there were too many channels of information being conveyed. Will maybe try putting the top side just one texture and the information on the underside. I'm no longer using the mobius strip idea because I want the story to be just one big loop easily handled by the user, not twisted to follow the curve.

Development 3 - Tangled

This idea was conceived as a solution to creating more interest in my object. However, as much as it might look really cool, and be really intriguing to feel, it does have the downside that the narrative is interrupted when the fingers lose contact with the strip in the overlapping places... So my object needs to be one uninterrupted loop.

The material in this model has one side completely smooth to link the story, and one side with contrasting textures to tell the story. The idea is that the user will feel along the strip and take a narrative from the contrasting side. I may switch the sides so that the narrative is felt along the inside of the loop rather than the outside so the index finger (more sensitive to textures than the thumb) is used to feel along the loop.

Development 2 - Internal structure

As I was making the internal structure for the previous development, I discovered that there was actually a really cool rhythm coming through in the stitching of the wire to the plastic... I did experiment with creating different stitching patterns but it was really difficult to create contrast and ended up conveying more just a concept of sound than of narrative so decided to stick with the original material textures.

Development 1 - Mobius strip

This was just a mini version of what I had in mind as it was very time consuming to put together. I quite like this but as discussed in tutor group, the curve could be smoother and perhaps the shape made more interesting? Will try this out in further developments. Each texture is meant to inspire some sort of picture in the user's head, the variation of which creates the story. The idea is that the user will record their experience in an accompanying book.

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