#objectile

Objectile, Sans titre (maquette et objets), 1998

Collection Frac Centre

For the final grading of my course we need to do an independant final major project. This wednesday we will need to pitch our ideas, but this time last week I had no idea what my concept would be. That was until I stumbled across a book called Future Cities in the library. I had gone to the architecture section with a blind hope I would find some inspiration for this weeks project, which is on architecture. Turns out that this book has some amazing architecture in it. It was there I found EZCT Architecture & Design Research and Objectile, both design companies that use a combination of technology and maths to create their designs.

And that is what gave me my idea for my final major project theme. Basically, my concept is a dark prediciton of the future of the fashion industry: what if computers took over?! This world is relying more and more on technology and other industries are becoming automated; the production side of the fashion industry is already highly automated. But what if designers themselves became obsolete and designs were generated by computers using optimisation algorithms? That is what I will be exploring for my final major project.

Algorithms to create designs already exist, to a certain extent, in architecture and it's really quite fascinating. I'm a nerd deep down, not your average fashion girl, so I'm not going to lie, I am really excited by this! The best part is when I went for an interview at my current college (for the degree course there, I'm only on foundation at the moment), one of the reasons I didn't get in was because the interviewer thought I should have done a maths degree and didn't think I was committed enough to fashion because I did best in my maths A-Level. (why that matters to her I still don't know) So I'll show her that an A* in A-Level maths can be put to good use on a fashion degree.