Smart Textiles Design Lab Blog at The Swedish School of Textiles
Workshop on Shape Memory Alloy -part1-
Mika Satomi, Mili John Thrakan and Maiko Tanaka had a workshop on SMA(Shape Memory Alloy) on 1t Nobember. The aim was to come up with woven SMA fabric swatches that has different expressions. A shape-memory alloy (SMA, smart metal, memory metal, memory alloy, muscle wire, smart alloy) is an alloy that “remembers” its original, cold-forged […]
Future Master Craftsmanship: Where We Want Electronic Textile Crafts to Go
Authors Mika Satomi Hannah Perner-Wilson Abstract: Craft, both as process and resulting artifact, implies notions of care, foresight, human skill and investment. In this paper we examine the practice of creating E-Textiles as a contemporary craft, and we ask ourselves what will become of this craft when the first fully automated machine for E-Textiles production […]
Ambience’11 Exhibition
Come and see some of the Smart Textile Design Lab projects at the Ambience’11 exhibition. “In art and design practices, materials and technology are means of expression as well as sources of inspiration. On the other hand, in technical development processes art and design provide meaning, direction and expressions of functionality. In some sense this duality of perspectives […]
Existential design – The ‘dark side’ of design-thinking
Why existential design? What makes it possible for people in remand prison to end their lives by e.g. stuffing a sock down the throat and therefore suffocate?
This research project aims at developing a design manual presenting a new way to think design. […]
NeoCraft – Craft and Smart Textiles
This project is a study of current textile craft practices in Sweden, especially in Borås and the crafts of the Sami community in Kiruna. The project aims to create new spaces and opportunities for these communities to be more actively part of the Smart Textiles dialogues, research and development. […]
Ambience’11 Conference
Come and see some of our projects at the Ambience’11 exhibition!
The opening for Ambience’11 participants is on Sunday Nov 27th, at 6 pm at the Museum of Textile History.
The exhibition is open for public Nov 28th 12-17, Nov 29th 12-20 and Nov 30 12-16. Welcome!
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