Following last week’s Discover and Define workshop, teachers were tasked to further develop their ideas into prototypes and to present their work to their fellow teachers. As part of the Develop and Deliver stages of the British Design Council’s Double Diamond Design Framework, teachers were given hands-on experience in using sewing machines, bundling POF textiles and using a loom in integrating POF yarn into weave structures to provide handworking skills for the prototyping stage. For many teachers, it was their first time to use POF textiles, and many were inspired by the illuminative effects that the textile could offer for their projects.
In a quick 1-hour prototyping sesion, teachers had to develop their prototypes and to prepare their pitch presentations for the afternoon Deliver session. Groups were taught to use storyboarding as a method to succinctly express their products and ideas and to use a variety of the textiles and materials that the lab provided.
In the Deliver stage, teachers had to present and pitch their products to their fellow teachers and to a panel of judges including Dr. Jeanne Tan and Anne Toomey, head of textiles at the Royal College of Art London. A variety of innovative solutions and prototypes were presented including a uniform that lights up when students get too close to each other and exceed covid social distancing rules, a dog collar that changes color in response to the dog’s emotions and a posturing correcting seat that informs the user of correcting his posture. Tan and Toomey shared their excitement about the range of well-thought-through ideas presented and prototypes presented and about the ways in which the teachers could implement their own version of the workshop to the students in the future.
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