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The Grand Garage has become the Mechatronik Training Program Cap. Developed, the AHS pupils conveys craft-technical and management skills in parallel with the upper level. Some young people from the program already work on their own product ideas and meet insurmountable limits. Unfortunately, in Upper Austria, there were no publicly accessible workshops in which prototype construction and ideas exchange are Read more...

Studio HILO is a Berlin-based studio for textile innovation. We re-think textile production by offering open tools for more sustainable, demand-driven and personalized manufacturing processes. It researches, designs and develops new materials and open-source manufacturing systems. We facilitate co-creative and human-centred trainings for textile professionals. Studio HILO teaches and experiments as designers in creative collaborations. The hands-on formats are developed Read more...

Fashion Tech Farm is a studio, incubator and small-scale production facility for innovative fashion. Based in Eindhoven. The Fashion Tech Farm offers a space to build companies in the Fashion Tech Industry. Farmers can come full time or have a more flexible approach. www.fashiontechfarm.com Read more...

The TextielLab distinguishes itself as a one-of-a-kind knowledge centre for textile development where professionals are explicitly involved in carrying out extraordinary, customised projects. The Lab is part of the Dutch Textiel Museum, a dynamic and creative working museum located in a former textile factory, located in Tilburg. It is the only place in the world where textile design, art, fashion, Read more...

Bacteria have an enormous beneficial quality which Vienna Textile Lab is able to turn into one of the most beautiful things in the world – COLOUR. Vienna Textile Lab fabricates organic colours made by naturally occurring bacteria in order to provide the most sustainable, wholesome and environmentally friendly alternative to conventional synthetic colours. Using Vienna Textile Lab colours to dye Read more...

Alvanon is a global innovations company that helps apparel brands improve their fit to reflect modern-day consumers. Since 2001, Alvanon has used the latest technology and body shape data to advise the world’s leading apparel brands and retailers on fit and sizing strategies. Alvanon offers industry training and support. As well as garment designs using Virtual AlvaForms, to develop initial Read more...

Faber Futures is a London-based award-winning agency operating at the intersection of nature, design, technology and society. The multidisciplinary practice engages industry, institutions and multi-sector brands with ecologically-driven models for holistic innovation. Establishing alternative materials and production models is contingent on systemic and often complex change. Through deep collaboration with our project partners and clients, Faber Futures bridges the technical Read more...

DefeXtiles is a project of the MIT Media Lab and are thin, flexible textiles of many materials that can quickly be printed into a variety of 3D forms using an inexpensive, unmodified, 3D printer with no additional software. This is achieved by using the material properties to encode the textile form: specifically using the periodic gaps that emerge when not Read more...

Textiles and technologies from Schoeller stand for high quality and innovative spirit. It is consistently oriented toward nature as a role model and place sustainability at the forefront of their endeavors. As a system supplier of solution-oriented products, Schoeller Textiles offers their customers and partners tangible added value, and address their individual requirements. www.schoeller-textiles.com Read more...

PEL is a UK company focused on integration, development and commercialisation of processes and systems for fabrication of electronic circuits, structures and devices using digital, additive and inkjet methods. In the past decade PEL has developed into a wider process and product development company using a number of advanced printing methods including, but not limited to, inkjet printing to directly Read more...