Assignment Description

1. Find at least one toy/game designer from your local community who make by their own hands. What kind of techniques and materials do they use? Have these materials evolved over time?
2. Observe and interpret the materials in these work:

Juan Antonio Olivares: There Is No End

Mike Kelley: Arenas | Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts

The Way You Talk: Jory Drew & QUEEN'S THROAT: Zachary Hutchinson & Caleb Yono - Roots & Culture Contemporary Art Center

Anthony Dunne, Fiona Raby, Michael Anastassiades. Priscila Huggable Atomic Mushroom, from the Designs for Fragile Personalities in Anxious Times Project (Prototype). 2004 | MoMA

Storyteller with Twenty Figures

National Museum of African Art - Smithsonian Institution

1. Use any material and make a plushie or plushie-like object.

Assignment Prompts (while making):

Can you employ alternative materials that are not conventionally used in this domain?

For the people who use these objects, what relationships are established through your creations for them to their surrounding social, cultural and environmental contexts?

What connections could plush objects (made with conventional or non-conventional materials) inspire for your practice?

Supplementary references (Woven textiles and Computation):

Irene Posch |

Leah Buechley

Plusea

Maggie Orth Portfolio