TESSI A shape changing and expressive artefact

Together with Maas Goudswaard and Julie Heij I designed an interactive material experience artefact named TESSI. TESSI is a shape-shifting origami fabric that embodies a ‘breaking and unbreaking’ transformation through a pleaded tessellation pattern. With this transformation we conceptualised the temporal form of TESSI. TESSI’s materiality and behaviour came about through a highly intuitive material orientated process with a special focus on designing for expressive interaction.