kyle barnes
what is invisiborders? Our world is divided by borders. While some are famous for their walls and checkpoints, others impact everyday civic life in invisible ways. Invisiborders was designed to engage wearers with these borders -- the first iteration being a jacket which lights up upon crossing a border. This project was inspired by the practice of gerrymandering in the United States, wherein legislative borders are redrawn in order to benefit one political party over another. Many such borders go invisible
Results from the initial user study led to a theory of wearable politics , which goes beyond merely wearing one's politics on one's sleeve, to contextualize an embodied engagement with political phenomena and associated active reflection on the part of the user. Wearable politics is inherently social, going beyond personal embodiment of abstract processes to also express that embodiment for the provocation of others and the self. Invisiborders enacts wearable politics in intimate and social encounters, in i
Invisiborders was created by Kyle Barnes , an undergraduate studying computer science at Princeton University. It was originally presented as a Work in Progress at the ACM Designing Interactive Systems conference in Eindhoven on July 6-20, 2020.
kyle barnes