Connextyle: Techstyle for Rehabilitation
This Friday, during the ARS Electronica festival, we ten Re-Fream artists and designers presented the results of our (almost) year-long collaboration together with our tech partners within the Re-Fream consortium, a pillar of S*T*ARTS EU and Horizon2020. I am incredibly happy to share the results …
Digital Vogue – Every End Is A New Beginning
My Re-Fream project “Digital Vogue – Between Organic and Synthetic Processes” is coming to an end. The research focused on digital processes from 2D to 3D for nature-inspired geometries; and the connectivity and adaptability of textiles with multi-color 3D-printed parts; with an underlying focus of …
Tech-Style Design: A behind-the-scenes look into the future of wearable tech
We are nearing the end of the first Re-FREAM grant, an opportunity for artists and designers to work together with scientists and technologists within a consortium of partners. In my last blog post, I illustrated many different explorations that my partners and I had been …
Technology over Text – The Challenges of Research During a Global Pandemic
Chemistry over Zoom is not straightforward, especially when you have to explain an experiment that you have never done before to someone who has never done, well, chemistry before. The Alma team is spread across five countries, and when travel was restricted because of coronavirus, …
Re-FREAM art/tech webinar 2020
In support of the recent second call, we will provide a webinar on the 7th of September 2020, in which our technology partners will introduce the project and the technologies available. They will especially focus on a live Q&A session to help you with the application …
Alma and Females
At the beginning of July, the team started working on how to build ramifications within Alma’s ecosystem by answering this question: In what ways can wearable technology further improve the life of Females? This involved looking at different aspects of a female’s life and the …
Virtual prototyping
We are finally back in Fraunhofer IZM since a couple of weeks, after a long break due to the infamous pandemic. Useless to mention that the last few months have been challenging since the co-creation process involved members of our team visiting labs for material …
Relational Design for Healthcare: An emotional and tactile experience
We are nearing the end of May 2020 and the entire world has now been in some state of shut down since earlier this winter because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It has been a strange experience so far that has brought physical limitations, but also …
Electronic textiles and Fashion webinar
On Tuesday 05. May 2020 at 17:30 h CET +2 (Berlin), Wear It Berlin is hosting its first Re-FREAM online webinar. Stakeholders from the technology and fashion industry are invited to join the Re-FREAM artists and scientists during the 90 min webinar. Our goal is …
Mapping pleasure
Lovewear is a smart underwear that helps people of all abilities to self-explore and enhance their own intimacy and sexuality. Pressure components are activated in the underwear when a connected pillow receive inputs through a hug. To better understand how pressure could be addressed and …
