Our blog is part of our open innovation approach. Research results and insights to our co-creation processes as well as information about the used technologies are being discussed in our blog - curated and written by our artists and technologists.
Sense of Play and Place
In 2016 I launched INTERKNIT, a knitwear collection born out of a series of residencies at Textiellab in Tilburg, The Netherlands. The textures and abstract surface patterns I developed through knitwear technology referenced women’s lived experiences, from the challenges to the joys they face in …
Second Skins, building the fundament
To develop a strong, coherent and relevant project, it is important to build a good foundation. Within this process, it is essential to always keep your main goals in mind. What are we working towards, why and for whom are we doing this? These questions …
Marinero – 9
Dear reader, this is my 9th and last Re-FREAM blog. ”Onderzoek brengt licht, meaning research brings light” The Marinero journey for project Re-FREAM comes to its final stage. 2020/21 has been an interesting year and I want to thank you for following this journey with …
Sustainable Evolution
Hi! Loreto here, my background is in Fashion design and art. For the last 10 years I have been developing my multidisciplinary ethical and sustainable practice. This practice converges in my brand ; anima. by loreto. anima. uses only locally bought, organic, recycled or deadstock …
Embroidered Touch – Life Space
Dear Friends, Colleagues & Re-FREAM Enthusiasts, In tribute to International Women’s Day, I wanted to share with you the first in a series of blog posts that explore design projects I undertook, which lead me to my current research. Throughout these posts I will share …
Need Based Clothing Design
How females affected by breast cancer articulate their individual lingerie needs and how these can be implemented into design Hello, My name is Silke Hofmann. I am a design researcher and clothing designer with a background in the womenswear prêt-à-porter industry. Currently, I am completing …
Assa Ashuach – Footwear Time Based Design
Project title: Footwear Time Based Design / Assa Ashuach at assastudio.com The initial ReFream project phases focus on research, concept generation and some initial experiments. Meeting the project partners was very fruitful and in the past few weeks, we have managed to cover a wide …
POSTNATURAL PROSTHESES: THE PROTECTIVE MASK
We are Filippo Nassetti and Vincenzo Reale, and much of our work focuses on changing the notion of prostheses, from medical devices, to artworks and fashion products. Our previous work aimed at transforming artificial implants replacing missing body parts (“prostheses”), into technological extensions and augmentations …
syntropia
syn·tro·py (sin’trō-pē), The antithesis of entropy, is the tendency towards energy concentration, order, organisation and life. The foundation of the project Syntropia are two individual projects Ra(h)menschuh by Sophia Guggenberger and Syntropic Materials by Eugenia Morpurgo. Ra(h)menschuh is an investigation into alternative construction methods …
Embroidered Touch – Life Space
Hello, Anke Loh here, a fashion designer and artist. Throughout my career, I’ve been inspired by balancing art and science. After graduating with a Master of Fine Arts in Fashion from the Royal Academy in Antwerp, I worked for Martin Margiela in Paris and freelanced …
New Blue. Novel material of recycled denim – first steps in the collaboration with Re-Fream.
Material and product designer Tim van der Loo and techno-anthropologist Sandra Nicoline Nielsen entered the ReFREAM collaboration based on a very simple idea. The co-research idea is to build on an existing fabric created as part of the circular garment project New Blue, further developing …
Co-define NeoBotanical Tailoring
NeoBotanical Tailoring is a co-research project consisting of a capsule collection of multisensorial tailored-inspired garments where nature, science and the well-being of the wearer are woven together thanks to CareApplication’s innovative and sustainable technologies. In each look of the capsule collection, both the natural dye …
RE-FREAM project 2021: Second Skins
Over the next 9 months I will share an inside pic into our Re-FREAM project Second Skin via this platform. To give you a first impression of the project and the concept, I would like to tell you about the broader mindflow behind it. There …
Ignotum project introduction
This is our first blog post for our Re-FREAM project Ignotum. My name is Jan, and I am one of the founders of WertelOberfell. We are based in Berlin and Munich and have a strong background in industrial design and 3d printing within the design …
Wear It Live – Sustainability in Tech – The Future of Fashion, Textiles, and Electronics with Wearable Tech
What role can wearable and close-to-body technologies play in ensuring that the fashion, textiles, and electronics industries are sustainable? Sustainability is important to early adopters and trendsetters of new technologies: it is the basis of success and acceptance of up-and-coming products. But sustainability does not …
Wear It Live – FashionTech at Berlin Fashion Week 2021
Fashion industry follows different rules than electronics, and with innovative technologies in material procurement and fashion design and smart materials, the world of FashionTech is growing at a rapid speed. What distinguishes the fashion industry from the electronics industry and how the new common space …
Marinero – 8
Since we are currently focusing on the new normal, I realize how important it is to think about the meaning of positive change. The daily news is asking what we can do to create a better future. What fundamental change do we need in order …
New artists awarded – Welcome to Re-FREAM!
At this years Ars Electronica, our 10 awarded artists of the first round of Re-FREAM and their co-creation teams gave you insights in their 9 months co-creation experiences and presented their outcomes in an online exhibition, in which they also explained the potential of their …
Pre-Selection is closed – Meet the Jury 2020!
As you might know, the selection process in Re-FREAM round 2 consists of 2 steps, a pre-selection and a final evaluation. After the closing of the call, all of the +130 applications were screened by a group of experts and a pre-selection shortlist of 18 …
‘WeAreAble’ 3D printing Kimono collection I ‘Linea Pelle’ in Milan with Stratasys – Ganit Goldstein
The new 3D printed ‘WeAreAble’ collection by Ganit Goldstein presenting a new manufacturing process, showcase the ability to use multi-color 3D printing within the world of fashion and textiles, using integrated techniques of crafts and 3D scanning. Two outfits were produced using polyjet technology directly …
Lovewear – soft robotics empowering self intimacy
We are glad to finally introduce the outcomes of Lovewear, a project founded by Re-FREAM, START-S and the European Commission in collaboration with Wear It Berlin through the technical support of Fraunhofer IZM. What a journey! Among all up and downs and difficulties related to …
ALMA
The story of ALMA is one of collaboration between people, art and technology. “The project started with a conversation” Tommaso Busolo, Material Scientist, Alma co-founder The past two months have been a time of intense work for the Alma team, from the physical tech development …
Witsense collaborative process
One of the main features of Lovewear project is the integration of soft robotics, inflatable pockets embedded into the garment. Witsense is not new to inflatables: in our previous work, we have made a jacket that delivers pressure therapy. The current project is being really …
The combination of Art&Tech
Art and technology, two seemingly contradictory fields combined together, can create amazing projects. Today, technology is a new way to convey artistic designs and outlooks. In the fields of natural sciences, computer engineering, and other respective technology sectors, scientific creations are revolutionizing and reinforcing the …
Marinero – 7
*Co-creation evaluation *Knitting Mix 2 category During blog # 6 I explained about the weaving production at TextileLab. During that time we were also able to start with knitting test samlpes. After the weaving production was finished, I continued working with product developer …
Sustainable Design-Circular Economy
In project cooking new materials, one of the top priorities that we follow in our entire concept is sustainability and circular economy. While most industries are currently following a linear production model to meet the growth of market demand, our circular economy aims to redefine …
Connecting Females and their Bodies
From going to work with a painful infection to not feeling comfortable enough to talk with your doctor about your vaginal condition. From feeling ashamed about your period to struggling through vaginal infections or more serious complications without any knowledge or health assistance. These are …
Ganit Goldstein I S+T+ARTS exhibition I ‘Ars Electronica’ festival
During ‘Ars Electronica’ festival, Re-FREAM results were reviled, showing the result of our 11 months of re-thinking the production of fashion from 2D to 3D Art & Tech research. Regarding my research outcomes, we present several outfits showing cases to produce fashion In relation to …
When sustainability meets 3D printing technology – ‘Re-Textile 3D’ by Ganit Goldstein
In the following months, COVID 19 has been challenging our co-creation process. We continue to work with my partners: Haratech, Stratasys, Profactor, and F&T – in a complete workflow remotely, catching up with progress along the weeks. Working remotely offered a different kind of challenge …
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 …
LEBIU Genuine Cork Skin – Final results
After almost 11 months of Research and Development in the co-creation program, I could develop a new set of Bio-based materials made out of Cork Stopper’s leftovers. The most difficult challenge was to pass from a home-made sample to a final prototype Industrially scalable and …
Stretched printing
After having worked intensively with the bonding seams, the co-creation team decided to widen the application spectrum of filament 3D printing on fabric by printing on stretched fabric. This way, one could generate new shapes and achieve new functions with the same garment piece and …
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, …
3D printing & Textile Webinar – Ganit Goldstein & Guillaume Clement
Join us for the webinar – 27.8.2020 at 7pm CET for explaining our collaboration in hub Linz – combining the world of textiles and 3D printing technology together with Ganit Goldstein and Guillaume Clement (Haratech) hosted by the Royal Collage of Art – Textile …
Making textile manufacturing adaptive
Flexible handling of textile materials in production is a difficult task. In contrast to other materials like metals, textiles are highly deformable and interact with other objects in a complex physical way. In the context of individualization of cloth production, this makes flexible and adaptive …
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 …
Re-FREAM at the ARS ELECTRONICA 2020
Following the motto of the festival In Kepler’s Gardens - A global journey mapping the ‘new’ world, we created the Re-FREAM Garden, which also looks at fashion from an uncomfortable perspective and opens up new spheres for sustainability and diversity with various talks and positions of …
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 …
Yokai Face Masks | Part Two
Going Into Production Other important issues we had to consider were the choice of fabric as well as the form of strap-application. It was important to us that the masks could be worn comfortably for a longer period of time. We deliberately searched for a …
Yokai Face Masks | Part One
Fashion Beyond the Crisis After our successful testing and try out sessions for the YOKAI seaming solution (see previous blog post), our motivation to stay on track with our work was high, to say the least. We were convinced we’d be unstoppable; that our hard …
Digital Vogue – Exhibition “NEAR + FUTURES + QUASI + WORLDS”
Re-Fream is almost coming to an end but I am thrilled that the exhibition “NEAR + FUTURES + QUASI + WORLDS” by S+T+ARTS recently exhibited some of my work and research results. Since its launch in 2015 as an initiative of the European Commission, S+T+ARTS, …
Marinero – 6
*Melt coating production Jürgen Leßlhumer from Wood K Plus wrote a summary based on interview questions: Can you explain what exact materials are used to create the sample 1 textured filament? For the production of the textured filament we used a high viscosity polyamide 6 …
Fragments Garments #7 – Co-creation residency in Hub Linz (Part 3)
Clothing Fasteners 3D Printing As the entire project revolves around local and on-demand production of customizable seamless and modular garments, I decided to enrich the offer to the consumer with personalized clothing fasteners using 3D printing technologies and micro-nebulization dyeing. SLA Printed Fastener The first …
Fragments Garments #6 – Co-creation residency in Hub Linz (Part 2)
Modeling Foot Arch for 3D Printed Shoes Now that the shoe high heels were prototyped, I needed to adapt them perfectly to the foot arch. To do so, I needed a precise 3D model of what we call a “shoe form”, i.e. a plastic made …
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 …
Fragments Garments #5 – Co-creation residency in Hub Linz (Part 1)
Residency Objectives Develop an articulated and customizable 3D printed high heels pair of shoes combining soft and hard printing materials. Develop 3D printed customizable and reusable clothing fasteners, to be produced on-demand, to be then dyed using the micro-nebulization process of Care Applications. As my …
Fragments Garments #9 – Material Sourcing & Sampling Tests
Sustainable Fabric Sourcing For each of my projects, I usually source fabrics locally. As my main partners were in Alcoi, I decided to scout fabric suppliers in Spain. I had the chance to get help from Blanca Gomara from B2Fabric which is a specialist in …
Fragments Garments #8 – Covid-19 Seamless Facial Protection Masks
Facing an Unprecedented Event Like all artists, designers, scientists, and technicians from the Re-Fream crew, I have been deeply impacted by the consequences of the Covid-19 crisis. As explained in my previous post, I was in a co-creation residency in Austria when the government decided …
Fashion Design and Reverse Engineering? – Conversation with Guillaume, Sander and Ganit
As part of my research within ReFREAM project, I interviewed Guillaume (Haratech) and Sander (F&T) about the idea of using 3D scanning in the context of fashion design. They were both part of the process I worked on in Linz, Austria, in which I scanned …
APeel-New Collection
Our design brings revolutionary concepts into reality, a perfect combination of technology and aesthetics, products featuring circular design and sustainability. Focusing on one of the key factors in our design, sustainability, we introduce our independent-developed material ‘APeel’. APeel is a bio-material that utilises the seemingly …
Bio-Material Innovation
In the field of textile and material industry, innovation never comes easy. Being a new-material researcher and fashion designer, my mindset has shifted as I am not just designing products but forming an eco-system around my product, establishing a viable solution to sustainable fashion and …
Programming the Future of Fashion by using 3D Design tools – Ganit Goldstein
3D scanning process of myself made at Haratech, using multi 360 Depth Camera, Linz, Dec’ 2019. “For dealing with this challenge, I realized that my process consists of the methods of Reverse engineering, going back and forth to create the bridge between the digital and …
WEBINAR: URBAN MANUFACTURING AND THE FUTURE OF FASHION
On Thursday 18th of June2020 at 17:00 h CET +2 (Vienna), CREATIVE REGION Linz & Upper Austria is hosting the second Re-FREAM webinar. Stakeholders from the technology and fashion industry are invited to join the Re-FREAM artists and scientists during the 90 min. webinar. Our …
SUSTAINABLE TEXTILES AND FASHION WEBINAR
On Tuesday 23. June2020 at 17:00 h CET +2 (Spain), Aitex is hosting the third 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 to connect you …
Marinero – 5
*3D animation – *Archi-Filament Aitex Jaime Gonzalez from Aitex wrote a summary based on interview questions: Can you explain what exact materials are used to create the Archi-Filament? Explain per yarn and filament: Monofilament Elastic yarn: is a thermoplastic polyurethane synthetic fiber. Multifilament1: PLA Polylactic …
KEY POINTS of LEBIU – Hub Valencia
In this article, I explain what are the main values of my project. During the co-creation process, I was able to cover various socio-environmental areas that had been left apart in the presentation of the concept at the beginning of Re-FREAM experience. I tried to …
Fragments Garments #4 — Exploring Upcycling
Mid-Term Presentation The entire Re-Fream community and all of its artists met in IED Madrid in January to present the advancement of the co-creation projects. This event allowed us to share both our preliminary results and the problems we were sometimes facing. As all teams …
