Woven Speaker: Exploring the Potential of Technology and Craft Juxtaposition through Speaker Weaving

Curiosity is an essential quality that is integral to the human experience and plays a crucial role in fostering creativity and promoting engagement. By understanding how to evoke curiosity through design, designers can leverage curiosity as a means to cultivate exploration and strengthen engagement with their creations. One approach to evoking curiosity through design is bringing conflicting elements together to prompt individuals to seek deeper understanding of the underlying relationships and explore creative possibilities between them. With this in mind, there is potential in uniting craft and technology, two seemingly polarizing domains, to foster these behaviors. This work explores the juxtaposition of craft and technology through weaving to create speakers and investigates how this juxtaposition can be utilized to ignite curiosity and lead a deeper engagement with technology. Following a research-through-design approach, a material recipe and weaving-based technique for speaker construction was developed. Utilizing the material recipe we conducted a hands-on speaker weaving workshop with ten experienced makers to gather insights on the implications and limitations of using craft and craft materials to build electronics. By integrating weaving methods and craft materials into the process of building electronics, an acceptance of imperfection was fostered and curiosity was sparked, which facilitated further exploration of technology. This thesis demonstrates the potential of juxtaposing craft and technology in product design, offering new pathways for designers to enhance user experiences with curiosity and engagement.

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters

Department dc:contributor.department

Industrial Design

Grantor dc:publisher

Georgia Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2024

Author dc:creator

• Romero, Lissette A.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Oh, HyunJoo

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Tonetto, Leandro
• Marks, Lisa

• Juxtaposition
• Weaving
• Curiosity
• Research through Design

Language dc:language.iso

en_US

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1853/75316

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repository.gatech.edu:1853/75316