Designblok Prague
Touch my Glass
/ exhibition : digital fabrication /
/ Prague : 2019 /
/ glass : cnc-fabricated plaster /
Touch my Glass is a material experiment that was presented at the Designblok Festival 2019 in Prag.
A collection of textures like natural rock, bark, artificial façades and plasterwork were used as a dataset and translated onto a series of glass objects.
Visitors are encouraged to touch these glass objects and feel textures from unfamiliar places.
The original textures were digitally interpreted and transformed, so that each texture resulted in a different pattern with a distinct density, depth and size. Mapped on to three-dimensional shapes they serve as moulds for the glass blowing process.
Each glass object is an abstracted reproduction and combination of those textures. With a different texture on each side, they connect two independent geographic locations.
