Designblok Prague
Touch my Glass
/ exhibition : digital fabrication /
/ Prague : 2019 /
/ glass : cnc-fabricated plaster /
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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.
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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.
