POSTNATURAL PROSTHESES: LINEAR 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 …
Thinking Footwear through a Regenerative Polyculture
The starting point of the project Syntropia is to develop a shoe based on biomaterials which can grow on and be harvested from the same regenerative polycultural field. Regenerative agriculture is a system of farming principles and practices that increases biodiversity, enriches soils, improves watersheds, …
Researching Syntropia
With the project Syntropia we are working on a shoe based on an already developed simplified construction built from four main components. These parts will be produced using biomaterials which can grow on the same polycultural field. See our first blog post for a more …
We arrived at our HUB in Alcoy, Spain!
Hola! After a few stressful weeks in Germany, preparing and finishing all the base material (New Blue Craft and New Blue industry), we arrived in the beautiful city of Alcoy, Spain. Here our HUB is situated in an old monumental building in the middle of …
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 …
Design principles, Second Skins
Before we take you with us on our research journey of the fusion between tech and fashion, finding usable materials and integration methods, I find it important to share our design vision with you. So, in this blogpost I will really focus on the backbone …
Mid-Term Updates Embroidered Touch / Life Space
The following is an update on my work and research with Re-FREAM partners, whose support of this project is part of a larger effort to explore the future of fashion. I will share some of the lessons learnt from this collaborative process over the past …
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 …
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 …
