Eyal Shushan

Cocoon 

Walk me layer by layer 3D printers are taking over large parts of the industry as we know it. The technology is currently taking strides towards accessibility to the simple consumer, when it will inevitably adorn the domestic space and open up a variety of new possibilities. In response to the need to mediated between future users and the system, I developed Cocoon. Cocoon is a toy system printed at home by the child, while learning the principles of 3D printing in a fun, engaging, and developing way, and through collaboration between the child and the mechanical process and between the technological and physical dimensions. The printed larvae allow development and adaptation in different and strange directions, just like in nature. The 3D printer at the heart of the system serves as a technological cocoon of sorts, inside which the different incarnations of the larva take shape. Advisor: Dov Ganchrow