Yushiro and I put our heads together for this wearable assignment.  We bounced back and forth a few different ideas - how the product should relate to the body, how it should enhance or what “added value” it would have - and in the end, settled on integrating technology into everyday clothing.  We wanted to take advantage of motions that we go through on a regular basis and somehow garner the energy from those repetitive movements to create electricity, heat, air, or something that would then be useful for another action.

Maybe we were influenced by our adopted Boston locale, but it - gets - cold!  Hence, we’re looking to design a jacket that warms you up as you simply zip it - the zippers complete the circuit of wiring woven into the jacket’s fabric, with embedded batteries supplying the energy needed to get the electricity flowing.  We of course want to ward against fire (that would be a bit too hot for this assignment), but it’s our initial concept with details to be worked out.

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See the sketches below for additional ideas and brainstorming that we didn’t incorporate (included a brief obsession with stockings, and why some designs are gender-generated: