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 …
Wear It Live – Sustainability in Tech – The Future of Fashion, Textiles, and Electronics with Wearable Tech
What role can wearable and close-to-body technologies play in ensuring that the fashion, textiles, and electronics industries are sustainable? Sustainability is important to early adopters and trendsetters of new technologies: it is the basis of success and acceptance of up-and-coming products. But sustainability does not …
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 …
Relational Design for Healthcare: An emotional and tactile experience
We are nearing the end of May 2020 and the entire world has now been in some state of shut down since earlier this winter because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It has been a strange experience so far that has brought physical limitations, but also …
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 …
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 …
The Adventure Begins…!
On October 27th I began my journey from Eindhoven to Berlin by train. I decided it would be better to extend my trip by a couple extra hours and at the same time avoid the stress of airport body scans, forced shopping mall exposure, liquids …
