For those of you in or close or coming to Kyoto in the next week, my recent work connected to my science/art research project called ORI* (meaning fold anything) in collaboration with Kyoto Design Lab.
This page is in Japanese, but google translate does a reasonable job. http://www.cis.kit.ac.jp/~ikegawa/ori/index.html We held a few events: public lectures, workshops, an exhibition (open till 28th March 2016), with some thought provoking works by the local students, plus original artefacts that feature folding as a key design strategy, such as sensu, an origami design book from 1904, plus my oribotic works and related research prototypes. I highly recommend a visit. We screened the recent French/German documentary (in English) “The Origami Code”. A very inspirational film, for those who haven’t heard about it yet: it is available here in German: http://www.3sat.de/mediathek/?mode=play&obj=54054 and here is the trailer: https://vimeo.com/151504441 Info sheet on the ORI* workshop. http://bit.ly/1LyvyYT For those interested in some of the research background, though we have yet to publish any of our results, our basic intentions are visible. http://matthewgardiner.net/ori/abstract Basically, we are are employing an artistic line of inquiry into the contemporary meaning of folding and its applications, and we are seeking new ways to apply folding in artistic and technological ways. My paper in Origami6 sheds some light on the ideas we are developing in ORI*. Happy to answer any questions anyone may have. happy folding, Matthew Gardiner
