updated assembling wk2

docs/assignments/week02.md

 # 2. Digital bodi-odi-odies*
 **pronounce in Australian accent, quote by drag performer [Courtney Act](https://rupaulsdragrace.fandom.com/wiki/Courtney_Act)*
 
-**TO DO**<br> 
-assembling process<br>
-pinterest gif <br>
-upload images to folder for exhibition<br>
-
-![](../images/wk02_nike.jpg)
-
-*The mannequin at Nike's London flagship store that sparked outrage earlier this year. Image by Nike.*
+![mannequin by Loes Bogers](../images/wk02_finalresult.jpg)
 
 For this weeks' assignment, I've done the research and practice work without separating them, to see if I can keep the thinking and doing more connected. I loved the week's theme of not thinking of the body as a white canvas, but instead understand how any perception of, or idea about bodies is already cultural and, if I may add: implicated in body politics. It resulted in three experiments and a realized physical model made out of paper. In summary I have:
 
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 4. Translating the design into flat pieces using *Slicer*
 5. Cut the designs using a *laser cutter* and assembled a paper model.
 
+**Inspiration: 3D representations of the body** 
+I enjoy the art works below because they somehow ask critical questions by what they embody: e.g. what is the relationship between enlightenment, consumerism and pollution? Do we treat our bodies with respect or as a tool? What is expected of women? What is our relationship to sexuality?
+
+More sources of inspiration (more conceptual) are found throughout the research below. 
+
+![](../images/wk02_inspi.jpg)
+* Top left: Nick van Woert, bottom left: Dongwook Lee, center: Iris van Herpen en Studio Drift, and on the right: Charles Ray (2x)*
+
 **About my model the rolemodel**<br>
 I decided quite quickly who I wanted to be the model for my mannequin.  Alex is a super bright and wonderful person and friend, and also the mother of an amazing 8-year old boy. I've known her for almost a decade and we've worked and talked a lot on topics relating to the body, gender, politics. I would love to dedicate this assignment to her and hope I won't disappoint.
 
 The way I've come to know her: she will only wear one label: that of *feminist killjoy* and she wears it with pride. I learn from her every day. She is able to create a welcoming space for everyone without making herself smaller for anyone, and I love that about her. That is why I want to model a torso based on her 3D scan that is fully lifesize, and not a mm smaller. 
 
-I would like to capture what I perceive to be the essence of my friend, how she stands, how she carries her body, the volume of it, its strength as a whole, without necessarily replicating her exactly. 
+I would like to capture what I perceive to be the essence of my friend, how she stands, how she carries her body, the volume of it, its strength as a whole, without necessarily replicating her exactly.
+
 
 ## Research 1: Are digital bodies standardized bodies?
 
+![](../images/wk02_nike.jpg)
+
+*The mannequin at Nike's London flagship store that sparked outrage earlier this year. Image by Nike.*
+
 Let's start here: How is it possible, that in 2019, a sports wear brand like Nike manages to spark a total online outrage by introducing bigger mannequins at their London flagship store? The consumerist glamour fantasy hasn't been real for a long time now! Walk out of the Nike store, onto the highstreet where it's located and you might see that actually, it is pretty common to have a body like this. Western European and Nothern American norms and culture tells us it's ok to judge a big body, mercilessly. Wow. Unlike some other commentators, Dr. Nikki Stamp explains this issue very well in *The Guardian* in her piece ["Berating Nike for Plus Size Mannequin is no War on Obesity, It's just War on Bigger Bodies"](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/12/berating-nike-for-plus-size-mannequins-is-no-war-on-obesity-its-just-war-on-bigger-bodies).
 
 How did we get here? And more importantly, how do move on?
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 13. You should now have a *cutfile* with one layer and only ungrouped elements, and a *reference file* that still has all layers separated and still has the annotations layer so you can find out what's what.
 
 
+**Change of plan, cutting at work**<br>
+
+I had to do another cuttest because I changed to the different machine and ended up cutting at speed 400 power 22. Some of the element curled up so I had to be smart about layering and order of cutting, because once they curl up the focal length changes so you will not get nice cuts anymore. I made sure the machine cut the insides and then outsides by separating the layers and ordering them, and changing these settings:
+
+![](../images/wk02_smartsettings.jpg)
+*Be smart about settings loesy goosey*
+
 ## Assembling the model
 
-Sticky notes are your best friend!
+Ohm this process was crazy. It already was intimate to make this 3D model of a friend, but it got real intimate right about now! Cutting took an hour, but assembling took me the whole rest of the day, another 8 hours. 
+
+Armed with sticky notes, painting tape, duct tape, a ruler and a pen, I set off to assemble this design using the slicer app for reference to see where the panels were. When I got further into the assembling process I found myself also writing what body parts the were because it was getting really confusing really quick! I taped down all the little splices because they were easily damaged. I started with painting tape, because I wanted to be able to fix mistakes, but in the end duct tape was much better for this. 
+
+The tabs give guidance and hold the mannequin together to some extent, but they're always located in the middle giving little support to the edges. They were quite strong though as the tab is made slightly bigger than the hole, but it's also very easy to manipulate the paper too much (ugly!) because you have to pull at it a lot. So I ended up trimming them with tiny scissors. 
+
+![](../images/wk02_assemble1.jpg)
+
+**Order of assembly**<br>
+I made the separate limbs first and then put it together. The size of the mannequin was a little too big for the strength the paper could give. A smaller model would have been much sturdier. But in the end I filled it up with the left over paper from cutting and it's standing firmly now! Probably not fit to travel though. It was quite amazing how it went from very floppy (in the middle of the process) and feeling it gain coherence and structure as I advanced. It reminded me a lot of how confused I can get while sewing when you have to keep pulling things inside out. I find it easy to get confused about what body part I'm working on haha. 
+
+Left arm: 
+Right arm: 
+Head: 
+Back: 
+
+![](../images/wk02_consentual.jpg)
+
+*Entirely consentual assembling going on*
+
+**An ikea moment**<br>
+And..... done! With I had to stuff her a little with the left over paper, but here she is. Gorrrrrgeous. And surely there had to be some mystery leftover pieces! They can be placed at the head and neck but it doesn't really help. The slicer made some sub-optimal constructions for the neck. And there's also a hole in the back (which can be fixed easily by designing another vertex for it). I missed that when working on the flat designs.
+
+![](../images/wk02_selfiefinal.jpg)
+
 
 ## Files
 
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 Pater, Ruben. *The Politics of Design*, Amsterdam: BIS Publishers, 2016.
 
-Stamp, Nikki. "Berating Nike for plus-size mannequins is no war on obesity – it's just war on bigger bodies", *The Guardian*, 12 June 2019: [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/12/berating-nike-for-plus-size-mannequins-is-no-war-on-obesity-its-just-war-on-bigger-bodies](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/12/berating-nike-for-plus-size-mannequins-is-no-war-on-obesity-its-just-war-on-bigger-bodies)
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+Stamp, Nikki. "Berating Nike for plus-size mannequins is no war on obesity – it's just war on bigger bodies", *The Guardian*, 12 June 2019: [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/12/berating-nike-for-plus-size-mannequins-is-no-war-on-obesity-its-just-war-on-bigger-bodies](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/12/berating-nike-for-plus-size-mannequins-is-no-war-on-obesity-its-just-war-on-bigger-bodies) 
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