Urban Empathy: Work in Progress

In this paper I present the body of work that I have been developing since 2005: Modes for Urban Moods -Space Dress, Yuga, and Lags. An ongoing project, which aims to evolve through time and in different urban spaces, this suite of wearable mechanisms are intended to help coping with our social sphere in a rather whimsy fashion. Being more or less technological, each of the garments and accessories have a specific reason for being, and are designed according to the research context of location, influence, and availability, while at the same time being aware that different modes of expression are meaningful, or other misunderstood, depending on (self)experience.