DAY 2 |
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Day 2 Independent Kit exploration
Tuesday July 14th
(noon to 1pm) Lunch Discussion
Discussion with Boriah Clothiers, a fashion house in Nigeria making fashion face masks
Discussion with Josue Gill, Stanford Mechanical Engineering undergraduate student designing assistive gear for fieldworkers.
(noon to 1pm) Lunch Discussion
Discussion with Boriah Clothiers, a fashion house in Nigeria making fashion face masks
Discussion with Josue Gill, Stanford Mechanical Engineering undergraduate student designing assistive gear for fieldworkers.
Maker Activities:
Journal: (Journal tasks are being postponed due to the fact we were not able to cover preliminary design thinking info in the Monday meeting)
Press and start growing your mycelium/cocoa bean husk face mask (see info below)
Starting your biogrown assembly with mesh and triangular forms. (see info below)
Watch MycoWorks Video at bottom
Journal: (Journal tasks are being postponed due to the fact we were not able to cover preliminary design thinking info in the Monday meeting)
Press and start growing your mycelium/cocoa bean husk face mask (see info below)
Starting your biogrown assembly with mesh and triangular forms. (see info below)
Watch MycoWorks Video at bottom
LUNCH GUEST SPEAKER |
OISAMOJE GRACE-MARY of Boriah Clothiers, a fashion house in Nigeria making fashion face masks (noon-12:30 PM)
Grace-Mary Oisamoje, fondly called Gmary by family and friends, is the founder and Creative Director at Boriah Clothiers. She holds a B.Sc in International Studies & Diplomacy, an M.A International Political Economy and a Diploma in Fashion Design. Grace-Mary had always been passionate about the creative arts from a tender age and was the best graduating Art student in her High School days. Her love for the creative arts sprung from dabbling first with photography but later grew to find expression in fashion. Her love for fashion was born primarily out of the discontent she felt whenever she faced disappointments from seamstresses/tailors. More so, she was also looking to find Made-in-Nigeria pieces that matched international high street standards but found none that she resonated with. As such she quit her 9 to 5 job and moved to a new city in a bid to pursue her passion for fashion and with the hope that there were other women like her who felt the same way she did. She hopes to change the Nigerian, and by extension, African narrative globally by using her brand and its platform to tell the other side of the African story. https://www.instagram.com/boriah.rtw/ |
Josue Gill, Stanford University
Mr. Gill will speak about assistive technology for agricultural field workers. (1:00 -2:00 PM) My name is Josue Gil-Silva and I am incoming Sophomore studying Mechanical Engineering and Product Design at Stanford. Growing up in the Salinas Valley, where STEM resources are scarce, I did not find my passion for engineering and design until high school. As a kid, when I wasn't doing schoolwork or drawing, you would find me playing basketball. I played 4 years of Varsity at Alisal High and am still involved with the game by being a manager for the Stanford Men's Basketball Team. Besides basketball, I found an eagerness for innovation when I took a Robotics class in high school. I had always loved drawing and coming up with little inventions, so being able to make robots that you can control truly fascinated me. I continued to be involved with our school Robotics club in high school, and when I got to Stanford, I tried to take advantage of the amazing resources at the school of design. I took a class called Visual Thinking, where our final project was to create a product that helps people. I created a prototype for a custom back brace for farmworkers that gives them support for their hard labor. The final product is still in the works, but I hope the product will soon be able to help make life a little easier for people in hard labor jobs. |
Grow a Conceptual Mycelium Face Mask
STEPS:
- Assemble the face mask halves using tape.
- Line the inside of the mask with saran wrap.
- Wearing gloves, spray a cookie tray or a strip of wax paper with the mini spray bottles of 70% isopropyl alcohol. (This spray bottle is in the silver and black boxes).
- Spray the saran wrap lining.
- Spray and wipe a large bowl. Mix the contents of the mason jar (pressure cooked cocoa bean husks) with the mycelium substrate (Reiche mushroom grown in cocoa bean husks) which is in the ziplock bag.
- Fill the face mask with the mixture, pressing as you go so that it is filled to the rim of the mold form.
- Place in a ziplock bag (leave 1/4" gap opening)
- Press the mycelium through the bag against your face to shape the interior of the mask! This is a fun and silly part of the process. You are using your own face as the counter press mold.
- Place the ziplock bag in a paper bag or cardboard box in a damp, warm dark place. A bathroom tends to work well.
- After 3 to 4 weeks, remove your grown mycelium from the mold form and place on foil or a cookie sheet and bake at 185 for an hour.
- Imagine how you will drill or otherwise attach straps to your creation. This is a conceptual design and not meant to be worn as real PPE.
Biogrown Assembly
Bio Grown Assembly using mycelium (Reiche mushroom grown in cocoa bean husks). These mold forms are made of paper dipped in hot wax and have been growing in the mold forms for two weeks. Today, you will press them against sterilized mesh to grown into one unit.
- Preheat your oven to 185. Lay the black mesh that came with your kit on a cookie tray or piece of foil. Place in the oven for 20 minutes. This will dry sterilize it.
- Wearing an oven mit, remove tray or foil from the oven.
- Wearing gloves, spray a cookie tray or a strip of wax paper with the mini spray bottles of 70% isopropyl alcohol. (This spray bottle is in the silver and black boxes). Place the triangular mycelium mold forms on this clean surface.
- Wearing clean gloves, remove the mesh from foil or cookie sheet and place it on top of your three triangular mold forms filled with the growing mycelium substrate. Arrange how you would like them to grow into the mesh.
- Place the mold forms and the mesh back into the ziplock bag (leave 1/4" gap opening)
- Place the ziplock bag in a paper bag or cardboard box in a damp, warm dark place. A bathroom tends to work well.
- After 3 to 4 weeks, remove your grown mycelium from the mold forms and place on foil or a cookie sheet and bake at 185 for an hour.