Emma Fukuwatari Huffman

Design/Mend/Research

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Hato Poppo

October – November 2022

How can we think and act like pigeons? Maybe by acting like one! Hato Poppo is a simple origami pattern for human-sized pigeon beaks. Developed by me (Emma Huffman), Asuka Kondo and Mily Bogaarts for Mediamatic’s Museumnacht 2022. Read more about the event here.

MuseumNacht 2022

Photos by Anisa Xhomaqi. See more here on Mediamatic’s Flickr account.

Design Process

The very silly and very serious design process with Asuka and Mily
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Screenshot of an Etsy product 01
Screenshot of an Etsy product 02
Mily’s sketches
Very early prototype
More very early prototypes
Early prototype with top and bottom beak
Screenshot of an Etsy product 03
First prototype with moving beak
How big should the beak be?
Sketch for human scale beak
Eating test with Beak
Looking good but too tight and uncomfortable
Drinking test with Beak
Concept sketch by Mily
More Prototypes
Asuka modeling the prototype of a beak with prominent “cere”
Asuka hugging with Beak on
Screenshot from a email correspondence with the team of Mediamatic telling us which steps are confusing. We learned how difficult it is to make clear instrcutions!
Instructions of folding the upper beak
Instructions of folding the bottom beak