Human beings often ask 'Who are we.. What are we doing?'
Simple yet long-lasting unanswered questions. According to multiple Gallup polls in 1989, 55% of Washington, D.C., U.S., workers claim to define their identity based on their job titles; rather than what they are personally capable of or feel themselves more in.
When these questions are left unanswered, humans most likely to experience trauma tragically, than those who do. The risk of anxiety, depression, and social isolation might be long-lasting or permanent.
Identity
Ballet dancing is one of the physically elegant languages throughout history; mastered by few and understood by many.
Being a ballerina or a ballerina is a sense of pride, self-expression, physical performance and most importantly, it is an identity. When a tragedy, which leads to under knee amputation, take place, the ballet performer experience everything beyond pain.
Being a ballerina or a ballerina is a sense of pride, self-expression, physical performance, and most importantly, it is an identity. When a tragedy, which leads to under knee amputation, take place, the ballet performer experience everything beyond pain.
Thus, designing a below-knee prosthesis that enables the ballerina to perform different choreographies by providing mechanisms to that achieve the foot and leg ballet positions.
Challenges
The flexibility and various movements of the foot and leg positions are different from one ballerina to the other due to their muscles weight, physical capabilities, training periods and techniques. The challenge in this design was understanding and applying all possible scenarios, which take place within the basic or common horizontal and vertical positions.
Design Process
A prototype was made out of basic materials such as foamboards, elastic rubber bands, scotch tape and thin plastic sheets (used for portfolio covers). This clarified and identified possible weak, strong and turning points. Afterwards, more illustrations were created to set the movement points and how they are connected together and depending on one another.
Design Trials
(Individual-Work-Project)