Link to video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZzD1ZcvYe4
Transcript –
Do you know how to use chopsticks? If so, how did you learn? If you’ve ever tried to teach anybody, how did that go?
Now, imagine those chopsticks are actually 6 m tall pieces of fabric and the student is airborne and spinning. Hard, right?
I’m talking about the same problem as the chopsticks, but in a bigger scale. It’s proprioception, spatial awareness, and observational learning in hybrid scenarios with your life on the line.
For those who don’t know what I’m talking about, aerial silks are pieces of fabric hung from the ceiling and used as an apparatus for aerial dance. While propioception is the awareness of the body.
I’m talking about a design and communication problem. And with 2 years of aerial silks experience, four years in UX research and already eight months of user testing and validation, I can confidently say that there’s no one-size-fits-all solution.
Instead, I propose an aerial silk teaching kit which would support both students who are beginners and advanced in furthering their acrobatic studies by allowing both teachers and students to externalize the internal body process of proprioception.
The kit will be anchored in a 3D model and accompanying app, but will also include supporting elements to tackle each student’s individual challenges like not being able to distinguish left from right.
And just like user research in traditional learning methods in the classroom, I believe this has the potential to revolutionize learning in the gym. Thank you.
