Response patterns: PhotoChromic Structures
Response Pattern UV Silkscreen
The culmination of the Response Pattern Project is a structure made of photochromic silkscreen prints. The lattice and nodes of the structure are custom designed to create a modular system of textile intervention. A speculation for interior and exterior space that that shifts color in relationship to the sun.
Response Patterns is a project undertaken with the support of the Center for Craft's Materials-Based Research Grant, to invent environmentally responsive embellishment methods for textile. The team includes three faculty from the Parsons MFA Textiles program and leverages interdisciplinary experience—Yuchen Zhang’s knowledge in material science and interactive technology, Travis Fitch’s methodical study of architecture, geometry and digital fabrication, and Anette Millington’s expertise in textile art and embellishment.
The Materials-Based research grant at the Center for Crafts fosters new craft-based approaches to STEM research and advances innovative research in craft materials. In undertaking our project in June of 2020, we are exploring how new materials and technologies add time-based, environmentally responsive behavior to textile surfaces. Central questions to our investigation are: How does the relationship of surface and place change when nature, through light, weather and time, becomes a direct collaborator? What is the communication potential of environmentally responsive materials? What do new materials and technologies add to an already rich lineage of connection between textile and local ecosystems?
Structure Concept
3D Rendering Design Credit Travis Fitch
PRINT GRAPHICS
Print graphics include three triangle designs, the top row indicates color without UV light, the second row indicates the color change in UV light.
