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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Co-Creation – The Ecodesign Prototype halfway
Here we are at the halfway of this Co-creation journey. During the last week of January, at the Mid-term, every hub met in Madrid to re-think fashion and technology, using the occasion to check the progress of each project since Re-FREAM started, four months ago …
Innovation Everywhere!
During the last week of January all of the Re-FREAM artists, tech collaborators, hubs and administrators convened in Madrid for the mid-term presentation and review. Spread out over two days, we had the opportunity to share what we’ve been co-creating with our partners and, therefore …
Female Bodies – Intimate Health Care
Gynaecological conditions, particularly infections such as Candidal vulvovaginitis (CVV) and Bacterial Vaginosis (BV), are still a significant burden for many women, particularly as these may be recurrent. Statistically, 75% of women suffer from CVV at least once in their lifetimes, and up to a 10% …
ALMA – Monitoring Vaginal fluids
Health monitoring is moving home, as consumers seek to gather data allowing them to both optimise their day-to-day wellbeing and potentially prevent future medical problems using the latest technology. At-home testing kits have the potential to boost the diagnosis of medical problems that may be …
From Functional to Relational
Over the last three months I have made several trips back and forth to Berlin, working with the scientists at Fraunhofer IZM. Our goal is to find a material, process, and design combination that optimizes the performance of the textile integrated EMG sensors that we …
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