The idea of protest can take many shapes and happen in many different places- in public, in private, online, alone or in a crowd. Try to avoid using words, symbols, paint or maker or cliché representational imagery to describe your idea. Instead, make your ideas physical and tangible by exploring the material possibilities of cardboard in order to discover creative ways to sculpt and shape your ideas instead of writing them.

In order to determine the final form of your prosthetic, you should pay close attention to function (how it works), your body (how it fits), feedback you get from your professor and classmates (how do they understand what you are making) and the context or place you choose to “protest” or share the importance of your chosen social justice issue.

Final presentation of the prosthetic will be worn and documented and potentially marched in. The best ideas find a way to go out into the world and express themselves.

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To begin, brainstorm with multiple sketches, material experiments and research of the social justice issue you are addressing. Using your sketches, discuss your ideation further with your classmates. Make adjustments from their shared perspectives on your topic and your planned approach to it.

​The best wearables try to avoid looking boxy and instead focus on three dimensional form and volume. If you focus on another visual property- form, shape, negative space, volume, movement, texture, or balance- your design will be more dynamic. You should document your development process, which will include brainstorming sketches, modeling, scale calculations, structural planning and careful fabrication. Use printed photographs of yourself from different angles as a guide to design your structures from.  Be sure you are addressing your form from multiple view points. Use these designs to calculate proper proportion and scale enlargements.

Explore and discover new ways to fabricate through physical tests with materials and test out things like moveable joints, flexibility, fit and strength.  You will need to pay attention to the inherent qualities of the cardboard as well as focusing on careful craft, fit, & structure.  Your explorations and careful fabrication planning will result in a wearable that can hold up to movement. As you work, continue to make adjustments to your wearable though self assessment and through feedback from your peers.

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When finished you, will take high quality photographs to document the wearable both on the body and in a context or location that helps articulate the issues being addresses.