Re-FREAM at Wear It Innovation Summit 2021
Wear It Innovation Summit 2021 For its 8th edition, the Wear It Innovation Summit went online for the first time. Over the course of four days, more than 40 speakers gathered to discuss the future of Wearable Tech. More than a thousand participants from all …
Ignotum final post
This is our final blog entry here on the Re-FREAM website, but before we dive into it, we would like to thank all of our partners and collaborators: Fraunhofer IZM: Christian Dils, Max Marwede, Robin Hoske, Sigrid Rotzler, Lars Stagun, Dr. Rafael Jordan, Kamil Garbacz, …
Second Skins, The final prototypes
Prototypes Finally, after 7 months, I was able to visit Fraunhofer IZM in Berlin, to work together in their labs for 3 weeks. It was great to experience that every part of the process had a specific expert and the whole team was extremely involved …
Building the Ignotum prototype
Last time we showed you our design process for Ignotum. Once we had come to a design we all were on board with, it was time to start making it into a real working thing. This blog post will be a bit longer than usual, …
Embroidered Touch | Life Space
We’re in the home stretch of our Re-FREAM collaboration and it’s been an exciting journey to see everything come together. Together with the Fraunhofer Team, Christine Shallenberg, has been a masterful technology consultant during the entire process, ever steadfast at troubleshooting the software and programming …
Finalising the Ignotum design
Our design phase for Ignotum is slowly coming to its final conclusion. Everyone who has ever designed or developed a product knows, that usually this process demands lots of iterations and constant micro-decisions to be made that hopefully lead to a sensible yet exciting design. …
The New Normal
I recently spent five weeks in Berlin at the Fraunhofer IZM and a few days at Stoll in Reutlingen. It was an enriching experience to work and collaborate with a team of like-minded scientists, fashion and textile designers, as well as engineers. Together, we were …
Navigating the evolution of fashion tech
The evolution of fashion tech For centuries high fashion in itself has been accepted for its aesthetic and expressive value. Now that we have started to fuse and cross-pollinate this field of expression with other industries, like technology, into something called “fashion tech”, this seems …
Planetary Design Circle – A Holistic and Strategic Design Tool
Authors: Hoske, Robin; Marwede, Max – Fraunhofer IZM The past months were a time that changed the way we work and collaborate together with our artists. With the Pandemic we were once more reminded that there is an urgent need for a change within the …
Lighting up Ignotum
This blog post is about some of the recent technical difficulties we faced in our project and how we are solving them together with our technical partners. As with all the ongoing Re-FREAM projects, this mainly happened utilising online tools and meetings. Due to …
