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This project explores individual uniquness within a collective. In partnership with Stratasys, the latest additive manufacturing production techniques are explored and exploited to

consider potential opportunities offered by technological advances in digital fabrication.

Chromatose is a collection of 3D printed pendants, each unique and varying only slightly to other members of its family. Inspired by animals with an ability to change their colour, these

pendants inflate to reveal their own colours held within their cavity.

Dynamic

Revealing

Emotive

Multi-materiality

Colour

Interactive

Form

Movement

Colour

Behaviour

Chromatose is a collection of 3D printed pendants, each unique and varying only slightly to other members of its family. Inspired by animals with an ability to change their colour, these pendants inflate to reveal their colours held within their cavity.

Chromatose addresses the dichotomy between the natural and digital worlds. By reconsidering the boundaries that lie between these worlds as fluid and constantly shifting, the notion of nature and naturally occurring phenomena is challenged. The collection of objects, natural and organic in their structure, behaviour, and colour, have been constructed entirely synthetically using digital processes. With growth, uniqueness, and variation generated parametrically through code, sequencing, and algorithms, the dialogue between the natural and the digital is interrupted and disputed. The designer now wields total authority over evolution and natural selection.

By replicating form and behaviour found in the natural world, the objects entice the subject into interacting with them. It is through this interaction with the installation the objects come to life, transforming themselves into a surrogate for our emotions.

The Chromatose collection demonstrates the versatility of the latest technological advancements in additive manufacturing. Stratasys’ Connex3 3D printer is used to fabricate objects with multi-property materiality. Micro-pneumatic mechanics are employed to exploit the potential dynamic qualities the Connex3 can offer. Their kinetic character is emphasised using colour, resulting in the worlds first inflatable, multi-material, and colour 3D print.

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Eidner, Franziska, and Nadin Heinich. Sensing Space. Berlin: Jovis, 2009. Print.

Gris, Stefano, and Andrea Cescon. Stefano Gris. Padova: Il poligrafo, 2006. Print.

Hanlon, Roger T. et al. "Physiological Color Change In Squid Iridophores". Cell and Tissue Research 259.1 (1990): 3-14. Web.

Oosterhuis, Kas. IA. Rotterdam: Episode, 2007. Print.

Spuybroek, Lars. Research & Design. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2009. Print.

Tamschick, Charlotte, Marc Tamschick, and Beverley Locke. Tamschick Media+Space Gmbh. Stuttgart: Avedition, 2015. Print.