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Thermochromic workshop at Aalto University
ArcInTex – network 25th february to 1st March 2013 www.arcintex.se Marjan Kooroshnia and Linda Worbin from The Swedish School of Textiles gave a Thermal Printing workshop using silk screen with thermochromic print, participants did designing and print dynamic textile patterns (using both external and integrated heat elements to activate dynamic textile patterns). Ramyah Gowrishankar from […]
Introduction to E-Textiles: Wearing Light
This one and half days workshop is an introduction to E-Textiles materials and techniques for fashion and textile design students. E-textiles, also known as electronic textiles or smart textiles, are fabrics that enable computing, digital components, and electronics to be embedded in them.* The course starts with short lecture about current E-Textiles projects in art […]
Textile + Glass
Laminating textiles between layers of glass. We want to explore by design both traditional and smart textiles, in knitted and woven designs. The project investigates different spatial expressions using different dichotomies like: Diffusing – Blocking Transparent – Opaque Contrast – Shade Color – Colorless Reflective – Dull Unit – Repeat Static – Dynamic Project […]
YOUR BALANCE
What could be the role of textile user interfaces in the digital age? YOUR BALANCE is an interactive, textile jewelery with the inspiration taken from insects. It is a critical design project that deals with the control through the 24/7 availability and the expectation of efficient time-use we live with today. It questions our passive […]
Inese Parkova
Guest PhD student
Smart Textile Design Lab
The Swedish School of Textiles
Contact: inese.parkova [at] rtu.lv
Relational Textiles for Space Design: design methods and expressions
Dumitrescu, Delia. 2011. Relational Textiles for Space Design: design methods and expressions. Department of Applied IT, Chalmers University of Technology and The Swedish School of Textiles, University of Borås.
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