Boundary, “A robot’s dream”

-A Platform for storytelling & a short hybrid animation-

Type: Workshop - Pavion

Year: November 2020 - December 2020

Location: Tehran, Iran

Awards: First Place in “Digital Digital Fabrication” Workshop / United States / Kent

State University

Status: Completed

Held By: Tehran University of Art in Collaboration With Kent State University & DC House

Supervisor & Tutor: Dr. Ebrahim Poustinchi

Brief:

This workshop focused on a robotically augmented design using Maya. The workshop was seeking an in-between-between the digital fabrication, simulation, and digital modeling as a possible design and a thinking medium to combine the restrictions and opportunities of each of the mentioned mediums into a hybrid design process. It also visited the idea of a digital fabric and context as a platform for storytelling and atmosphere creation.

Contributation to the project:

Idea Development

Modeling: Maya 2020

Rendering: Arnold

Presentation: Premiere pro 2020

The digital medium used in this project creates an unreal environment with a narration. In this platform. The story is about a dark and gloomy crowded city after a traumatic crisis where there is no hope, and robots are bringing hope and excitement to the city. In fact, robots are running a factory in which balloons that are the symbol of hope are made. Each robot is responsible for a specific task. Finally, inflated and colorful balloons are produced and are blown out of the trumpet. In the end, some of the balloons which are the symbol of hope are freed to fly upward. Two robots are standing on an arch which is the symbol of the past. These two robots collaborate and help in overthrowing the arch so that those balloons can spread hope easily throughout the whole city and this action is an indication of liberation from the past and boundaries made by human beings. In fact, this is like a dream for robots.