Designing Shape-Changing Textiles – FESCH.TV

Designing Shape-Changing Textiles & FESCH.TV:

There is growing interest in the potential of shape-changing textiles to promote well-being and sustainability.  In this project, design researchers Pauline van Dongen and Anna Wetzel from the ArtEZ Professorship of Fashion investigated the potential of shape-changing textiles to promote sustainable behaviour. They worked in close collaboration with Next Nature Network, UNStudio, AMOLF and the Ecomimicry Institute. From a social, ecological, technical and design perspective, they investigate what happens when textile materials autonomously learn to be adaptive, responsive and interactive, and how that contributes to sustainable behaviour and to an awareness of the interconnectedness with nature and more-than-human entities.

This one-year exploratory study has been supported by KIEM GoCI of Regieorgaan SIA.