VR Gestural Modeling to Recapture the Human Body in Design

This paper positions the work of a three-credit elective seminar that investigates the potential of an immersive VR collaborative design environment to realign the importance of the physical body in digital design. The students in the course engaged in the process of designing based on the human body, being exposed to the historical background in art and design practices as far as the contemporary digital culture. The research question that motivates the work arises from the fear of losing the agency of the human body in both dimension, movement, and gesture to inform the translation from 3D reality into a 3D representation. However, new VR technologies aim to directly connect designers and what they draw and model, filling the gap between input and output design workflows.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.110.63

Volume Editors
Robert Gonzalez, Milton Curry & Monica Ponce de Leon

ISBN
978-1-944214-40-1