Smart Textiles Design Lab Blog at The Swedish School of Textiles

The Silent Context – Detachment as Leitwort for Artistic Development
The Silent Context - Detachment as Leitwort for Artistic Development

Paper by Lars Hallnäs, The Swedish School of Textiles, University of Borås, available at Reserach Outlet. Abstract Post modernism as a philosophical, ideological foundation of artistic practice lives by contextualizing, relativizing; the ubiquitous context, the wandering eye, this is what it is, but on the other hand also that… What is the context? We must be […]

Around Over Between Up…: Spatial properties as variables in textile design_PhD thesis
Around Over Between Up...: Spatial properties as variables in textile design_PhD thesis

Tonje Kristensen Johnstone, The Swedish School of Textiles Abstract With a starting point in defining space through materials, colours, planes, and surfaces, the aim of the work presented in this thesis was to explore and introduce spatial concepts as design variables in textile design. Another aim was to explore surface patterns in terms of their […]

Svenja Keune

Postdoctoral Researcher at Swedish School of Textiles, University of Borås, SE and CITA, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation in Copenhagen, DK with an international postdoc grant from the Swedish Research Council for ‘Designing and Living with Organisms (DLO)’ Doctoral student in textile design The Swedish School of Textiles, ArcintexETN and Svensson AB Contact: Svenja.Keune […]

Wearing Sound : The Foundations of Sonic Design_PhD thesis
Wearing Sound : The Foundations of Sonic Design_PhD thesis

Vidmina Stasiulyte, phd student ArcintexETN(www.arcintexetn.eu) and The Swedish School of Textiles University of Borås Abstract  Fashion is primarily a visual ontology consisting of definitions, theory and methods that are based on visual language. This research revises fashion by approaching it from a different—sonic—perspective wherein sound is considered not as a negative aspect but as a […]

On the textility of smell in spatial design_PhD thesis
On the textility of smell in spatial design_PhD thesis

Jyoti Kapur, PhD student ArcintexETN(www.arcintexetn.eu) and The Swedish School of Textiles, University of Borås Abstract The ocular-centric approach predominant in the field of design, particularly textile and spatial design, focuses on visual aesthetics and visually mediated interactions. Whereas the non-visual materialities of a space, such as smells, are ignored in the design process, meaning that […]

Kathryn Walters

Doctoral student in textile design The Swedish School of Textiles Contact: Kathryn.Walters[]hb.se