Today we each went to have our body scanned in the Righton Building at MMU. Here they analyse data taken from individuals body measurements and use it to compare high street sizes against what “should” be but will never be the average body size. they also have various equipment to make garments that are seamless for intense sports wear and other such activities.
The body scan give you a vast amount of data about the shape and size of your body, it’s quite a fun experience, a little depressing though! You end up with a beautiful graphic drawing of the shape of your body. We could also look into having this image split up into steak pieces which we could then cut on a laser cutter and make a half sized model of ourselves.
After we each had been scanned, we discussed with Annie that since we all had the same data to start with, we had to go away and discuss what we could do with this as a starting point for the Digital Futures Option. We had a chat about what we could do with this and agreed that with the assessment coming up next week for us each to write a reflective piece about the body scanning session and how it can link into our individual practice and also in any way collaboratively. We will each write roughly 300 words about this and post onto a social network to share to spark other ideas and conversations. Rather than think together at this initial stage we thought it best to start with our own practice and see what may come from that, then move on from there.
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