Nuoqi Shen
Fashion MA
Royal College of Art
Specialisms: Fashion Comms / Genderless / Visual Effects VFX
Location: London, United Kingdom
Nuoqi Shen
First Name: Nuoqi
Last Name: Shen
Specialisms: Fashion Comms / Genderless / Visual Effects VFX
Sectors: Fashion/Textiles/Accessories / Fashion/Textiles/Accessories / Fashion/Textiles/Accessories
My Location: London, United Kingdom
University / College: Royal College of Art
Course / Program Title: Fashion MA
About
Nuoqi is an interdisciplinary designer and strategic concept communicator born in Hangzhou, China, who spent five years in Melbourne, Australia, before moving to London.
Her work seamlessly blends digital and physical creations, exploring new possibilities for the resilience of humans and the environment in the future. By incorporating cutting-edge technologies such as XR and wearable sensor technology, Nuoqi pushes the boundaries of design to envision innovative solutions for future challenges.
In a speculative future where clean air is a rare commodity, this digital parkour-focused fashion film showcases a groundbreaking air pollution-responsive suit. Designed to protect outdoor athletes from severe air pollution and allergens through smart air purification technology, the suit also features an integrated digital twin using mixed reality (MR) to reflect real-time sensor data, dynamically indicating pollution levels. The fashion film follows a thrilling parkour journey through a polluted, post-apocalyptic urban landscape, highlighting the suit's adaptive features and technological prowess. A digital storytelling and gamification campaign immerses viewers in future scenarios, serving as an effective strategy to engage audiences. This cinematic adventure not only demonstrates the suit's innovative design but also serves as a public health warning, raising awareness about environmental challenges and the critical importance of adaptive technology in ensuring clean air and protecting public health.
Competitions
Global Creative Graduate Showcase 2024
Introducing the “Future-Explorer Eyewear”, where bold style meets function. This eyewear makes a bold statement, ideal for casual utilitarian, festival, and outdoor looks, drawing inspiration from the merging realms of the virtual and physical worlds. Crafted with cutting-edge 3D printing technology, it offers a fashion-forward design that transcends on and off the screen. The modular design with detachable fastening allows wearers to adapt their look with ease, complemented by metallic finish frames and tinted lenses. This eyewear places a strong emphasis on protection, featuring an ergonomic, wraparound design. Sustainable materials like biodegradable PLA are chosen for the frames, ensuring durability while minimizing environmental impact. The “Future-Explorer Eyewear” is the ultimate fashion statement, seamlessly blending style, innovation, and sustainability, individuals can elevate their style, protect their eyes, and confidently step into the future.
Competitions
Global Creative Graduate Showcase 2024
‘Mars Odyssey’ is a world-making future fashion collection that envisions a future lifestyle on Mars and proposes possibilities of more sustainable and technology-engaged fashion. New spacesuits, wearable oxygen gear, and life support devices provide alternatives for outdoor human activities on Mars, as well as opportunities for bold self-expression. These pneumatic design prototypes have the potential for temperature control and air storage, combining style and innovation. The design engages distinctive details, unisex gender-fluid styles and avant-garde expressions with blended design development and exploration between the digital and physical. The collection is inspired and developed through “Zero-waste pattern” experimentation in 3d program Clo3D and physical draping. The collection engages multiple sustainability innovation methods, including zero-waste design, upcycling, streamlined production in 3D programs and using biodegradable thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) across the whole collection. The key techniques in this collection are: 1) Air-tight inflatable-making pneumatic designs (including sonic welding/heat welding + heat-bond quilting), 2) Zero-waste design (3D pattern making/designing complementary patterns +upcycling / remaking) 3) Digital Print and Transfer Print graphic design. The key materials are TPU plastics, high-density scuba and heat-reactive colour-changing materials.
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