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Urban Armor #7: The Social Escape Dress

Urban Armor #7 consists of a dress with nine built-in mini fog machines. Using a GSR sensor to measure conductivity on the wearer’s skin (often used as a measure of stress), the Social Escape Dress can be deployed to automatically emit a cloud of fog. Where commercial wearable technologies often aim to facilitate self-optimization, dealing with stress by trying to create more efficient humans, the Social Escape Dress aims to make feelings of stress visible; a gesture than can be seen as one of protest, absurdity, or simply as a diversionary tactic allowing the wearer to exit the stressful situation.

The Social Escape Dress is part of Urban Armor, a series of speculative and absurd wearable electronics further documented at urbanarmor.org

2016
fabric, pump motors, vaporizers, GSR sensor
high res images available upon request