Wrapping/Tailoring Project

RESEARCH BACKGROND: Chyon's Wrapping/Tailoring project featured a series of porcelain tableware pieces that fuse the handcraft of paper folding with digital technologies. It was exhibited at The Future is Here, a touring exhibition created by the prestigious Design Museum in London and curated by Alex Newsom. When on show at RMIT Design Hub, the exhibition included additional local design research projects that demonstrated the importance of speculation and prototyping to innovation and design. RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION: Chyon's installation experimented with the relationship between craftsmanship and industrial mass-manufacturing. It exhibited the design process of where and how the making oscillate between hands and eyes, and digital hands and eyes. The work explored how these two making methods inform and infulence each other in creation of an object, and subsequently offer an understanding of digital craftsmanship. RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE: The significance of Chyon's project is evidenced by its selection for The Future is Here exhibition, as a representative of leading design research at RMIT. One of her works was commissioned to complete the narrative for the exhibition. An interview with Chyon was recorded and published on YouTube.The installation was peer-reviewed by two curators for its thematic relevance and for its quality to complement and be exhibited alongside pieces that had travelled from the original exhibition in London. The exhibition was extensively reviewed in Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Architecture and Design, and Architecture Australia.