Apprenticeship 2.0

A digital design tool simulating craft know-how in virtual reality

This project is now archived and was part of DDW20

Virtual maker space simulates passage of time

Bolor Amgalan

Apprenticeship 2.0 is an immersive VR experience and a digital design tool that uses particle-based simulated yarns with realistic material properties. Enabling a new form of craft preservation practice, the project provokes discussion about human-machine symbiosis in the 21st century.

Today it is more important than ever to take pride in human abilities and direct inevitable technological change to support human creativity and craftsmanship. As VR/AR/XR technologies take center stage, innovative approaches to creating true sense of emb

Virtual textile craft object, a close-up

Bolor Amgalan

Virtual materials and simulated material know-how

Bolor Amgalan

Virtual materials with recognizable properties

Bolor Amgalan

Handcrafted virtual object as cryptocurrency

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About Bolor Amgalan

Bolor Amgalan is an interaction designer/researcher and a fashion design technologist teaching at Parsons School of Design. Trained as a zero-waste fashion designer, Bolor developed her practice further at Central Saint Martins using speculative design narratives, and yet further at Parsons using computation. She programs hybrid materials that belong to both the digital and analog realms and occupy the space at the intersection of craft values, tangible interface design and embodied interaction.