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Molly Price, UK based associate partner at Diffus Design will be guest speaker at  “Watershed“. She will introduce our approach and Design philosophy through our latest EU collaborative research project: CREATIF, Digital creative tools for digital printing of smart fabrics. The CREATIF research consortium are developing collaborative software tools and a smart fabric printer that will be used to design and print electronic inks onto textiles. Designers will be able to print fabrics with interactive...

Our EU-project Light.Touch.Matters continues to develop in new and exiting ways. Last week we participated in another successful workshop held at Material Connexion in Milano. Material Connexion was a perfect frame around Workshop 04, which achieved its main objectives, to present and discuss 20 product design concepts made by the design SME’s. These proposals and discussions are feeding the materials research stream in a way that a true collaboration and exploitation of the diverse competences...

Molly Price, Diffus Design’s UK based associate parter, participates as a speaker at Wearable Futures, a two day conference exploring wearables, from smart materials to new technologies. On the10 th and 11 th of December 50 thinkers and creative people from around the world will debate and share their vision for the future of wearables, from smart materials to new technologies. The two days will include a broad programme of talks, interactive and immersive installations, and the chance to experiment...

CREATIF collaboration aims to revolutionise ‘smart’ fabric production Imagine that you could print touch sensors and active light directly on fabric – if your fabric could be turned into an interactive surface with different inputs and outputs printed in one go, on one surface. October 1st 2013 the EU-project, CREATIF, was kicked off. CREATIF is a unique project that strives to make this imagination possible. Three creative partners; Base Structures (UK), Diffus Design (DK) and Zaha Hadid Architects...

October 1st our second exciting EU-project – CREATIF – is kicked off where Diffus will be one of three creative partners together with Base Structures (UK) and Zaha Hadid Architects (UK). Technical and research based partners are Grafixoft (BG), Institut für Textiltechnik Aachen (DE), University of Southampton (UK) and Ardeje (FR). The CREATIF project is based in the area of smart textiles and aims to create collaborative tools in the form of intuitive digital software design tools coupled with...

In june 2013 the members of the Light.Touch.Matters consortium got together in lovely London for a second workshop. The workshop represented the beginning of the so-called first iteration that will bring to the definition of meaningful scenarios connected to new materials properties and experiences. It saw the start of designer-researcher dialogue, exchange of projects progress, handing out material samples, first sketches of scenarios of meaning and good team-building and decision-making. During...

The Climate Dress is featured in the newly published book “Textile Messages: Dispatches From the World of E-Textiles and Education”, Published by Peter Lang Publishing. The Climate Dress is mentioned as ”a statement that, though an aesthetic representation of enviromental data, contributes to the ongoing debate about enviromental issues. (…) The dress does not rely on wiring, soldering, or crimping which is often impair the textile aspect of ”smart textile” products. All functional elements are...

The Climate Dress is included in a material blog run by one of the largest material databanks in Europe: RaumPROBE – a true paradise for architects, interior decorators, planners, and interior designers: It is a competent contact partner in all matters regarding material. This is not only available online and searchable using common search criteria, but also on-site. raumPROBE makes the fascination of material accessible and wants to promote creative use of various materials. The blog is a huge...

Moving Materials is now located at the Buda Art Center (previously a textil Factory) in Kortrijk (Belgium) until the 30th of June 2013. Moving Materials is a travelling and growing exhibition. The design caravan will visit Essen, Eindhoven, Lancaster, Kortrijk, Paris and Helsinki. New materials will be taken on board at each location Moving Materials is evolving and developing in the framework of PROUD (People Researchers Organisations Using Design for co-creating and innovation) and initiated...

Courtney Lochner from Société Perrier comments and asks the following question: ‘The world is getting exponentially smarter. Your phone alone can tell you how to walk from your house to anywhere on the planet, what the weather will be like for the journey, and even what to wear. Cars, computers, robots, they’re all getting smarter. But what about fashion — can it get smarter?’ An answer to that question is given through the work of our design in the article: Diffus: Fashion with intelligent Design. Read...