Category: Powerpatterns

Happy new year!Our design project called “Wearable Energy – Textile Batteries” funded by WEAR Sustains is now behind us. Based on the positive evaluations by the end of the project we decided to work further with Vadim Tenner, our partner from Institut für Textiltechnik of RWTH Aachen University (ITA). As a major milestone in our future collaboration, we have co-funded PowerPatterns, a company aiming to develop a new way of battery integration into wearable smart textiles. We...

Diffus rethinks the traditionel Shanghainese dress – the Qipao for the Edinburgh Art Festival. This was conducted through a collaboration between fashion students, material scientists from Donghua University, Shanghai International Institute of Fashion & Technology and Diffus Design. We created two different collections – both had transformation as the driving force. In this case transformation was connected to the Chinese philosophy of five elements. The result of the...