The Re-FREAM Manifesto is now available
Over three years, artists, designers, scientists and industry experts entered into the Re-FREAM co-creation processes. They collaborated through lab experiments and Zoom calls, imperfect outcomes and pivots, materials and contemplation, fuelled by brain cells and enthusiasm. Together, they conceived trailblazing solutions for pressing social and …
The ‘Sepida’ shoe is 3D printed on fabric with a ‘slide in’ evolutionary personalised midsole – Assa Ashuach
The Sepida shoes are part of the ‘Evolve IM’, a new biometric evolutionary footwear. In this project, we worked on three main domains: evolutionary design, circular design, and 3D printing on fabric footwear. This post focuses on 3D printing on fabric. The Spedia shoe design …
Circular Mono Material footwear, made of postconsumer waste for Reuse and Refix – ReFream by Assa Ashuach
This post presents my collaboration with Haratech, that is focused on strategies to increase footwear lifetime and leads to reduced overall manufacturing and object carbon footprint to the minimum. The MONO material is a R&D domain that was developed in parallel to the Evolve footwear …
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 …
Second skins research on responsive and adaptive materials
Over the past months, we did extensive research on activation methods and responsive reactive textiles usable for fashion integration. In this blog post, Christian Dils from IZM and I, Malou Beemer, will walk you through our process and findings. The hunt for responsive and adaptive …
Assa Co researching ‘Footwear Time Based Design’ with Stratasys, Haratech and Profactor
NOTE: Featured image (above) is a concept 3D illustration, and not attempting to be anything like the final design ; ) The co research was focused on the exploration of new footwear design and manufacturing methodologies, technologies, and the development of a hybrid approach to …
Mid term presentation of New Blue
On the 12th of April we had the mid term presentation! We arrived two weeks before in Spain with all our material we developed and had to work hard in order to show our work done here in the research institute. We presented our project …
Sustainable Evolution MidTerm
Midterm presentations were in mid April and it was a chance for all artists, technicians, hub managers and the rest of the organization committee to be able to see the progress in our projects. We at the Valencia hub (in Alcoy) were extremely lucky as …
POSTNATURAL PROSTHESES: GRANULAR FORMATIONS AND POLYJET SAMPLES
Our Co-research phase started by experimenting with Stratasys on PolyJet 3d printing on fabric. The technology allows to augment a textile by printing three-dimensional structures onto it, whose shape, colour, transparency and flexibility can be controlled through a digital 3d model, at the resolution of …
Sustainable Evolution – Co-research
For the last couple of months I have been here at the Valencia Hub in Alcoy, working and co-creating with the technicians. We are trying to find optimal processes of dyeing sustainably with microorganisms and plants dyes. We have also been working with laser cutting …
