ORIGAMI WORKSHOPS

Now and then I give ORIGAMI WORKSHOPS at the art academies. The workshop is intended to give inspirations in relation to e-craft and smart textiles.

2009 @ Willem de Kooning Art Academy (Crsslab)

2012 @ Willem de Kooning Art Academy (Smart Textiles)

cited from: http://wdka2012smarttextiles03.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/origami-workshop-arduino-motor-control/

Origami Workshop and Arduino Motor Control

On 14 February, we’re very lucky to have Maki Ueda join us to show us the basics of paper folding and origami. We’ll also look at different ways that textiles can move, including an introduction to using motors with Arduino.

What we’ll do:

• Paper folding and origami workshop with Maki Ueda
• A first look at Arduino and motors
• Discuss other ways textiles can move

What to bring:

Please bring some paper to fold, plus a different kind of textile for experimentation – fabric, plastic, etc.

Links from Maki:

• Preview: the last workshop in 2009 @ crosslab
• We’ll fold this together: Miura-ori
• Origami Club: contains hundreds of basic models
• Kusudama: making abstract & architectural origami
• Toshikazu Kawasaki: origami mathematician, famous for his “Kawasaki Rose”
• Mathematics of paper folding

Inspiration and related links:

• Pleat Farm blog
• Folding magnetic curtain by Florian Kraeutli
• Growing light by Jordy Rooijakkers
• Folding dresses by Alexandra Verschueren
• ShapeShift electroactive polymer
• Walking City dresses by Yin Gao
• Living Pod dresses by Yin Gao
• Wearable Structures on the Creators Project
• Bacterial Motility by Erdel Kiziltoprak
• Inflatable textile animations
• Hysterical Bubble by Anja Hertenberger

Updates:

• Ori-Revo: app for making 3D polygons and its author, Jun Mitani
• Origami robots!

The video from the lesson is online – you can watch it here.