What is Surface Tension?
Surface Tension is a digital exhibition, event, and platform devoted to realising the potential materials can have on the human body and surrounding environment across varied creative disciplines. We chose digital or 3D design to challenge the surface and depth binary as these virtual processes allow designers to conceive and produce more complex objects.
The exhibition features submissions from various material designers, artists, fashion brands, architects, and scientists. The works focus on materials which have the intended effect of protecting, sustaining or improving the function of the human body. From Final Frontier Design’s Mechanical Counter-Pressure gloves for NASA, to potential of the anti-viral properties of seaweed by Clean Valley, and clothing brand BYBORRE exhibits their open-source tool for designers to create sustainably.
This exhibition is curated to host both speculative materials concepts and projects which are currently on the market or in the process of being manufactured. While using this as a showcase for what materials are available, this will also be intended to accelerate progress of the industry, for a future where the body and surface are considered simultaneously.
