Goals for the workshop
- To investigate and understand the potential of interactive technologies combined with textile material and techniques.
- To explore and define a new language for wearable expression.
- To explore new paradigms of expressing identities trough smart textiles.
- To explore possibilities of applications in related fields like interior design, space design, scenography, choreography, furniture design etc.
- To explore different computer-mediated interaction scenarios.
- To combine traditional textile practices with computational design.
- To create sensual, tactile and aesthetic artifacts combined with computer mediated abilities.
Methods
1) Invevestigation of two possible technologies
– Luminescent wires, films and strips
– Thermochromic ink
2) Exploration of reactive pattern’s typologies
3) Conception of interactive garments – Hands on!
4) Defining the ‘story’ as well as the rules and nature of realtime based interaction mediated by textiles
– Input? pollution, hearth beats, sound level, proximity…
– Output? blinking, fading…
– Rules? when, where, why…
5) Experimenting and playing with the technology