poetic textiles for smart homes
In a context where textile design is mostly driven by unsustainable innovation and consumption patterns, how can textiles take a leading role in redefining our design, perception and experience of the domestic space?
How can textiles reconnect the notion of history, craft, ecology with intelligent technologies and materials thus redefining the role of textiles within an overpowering architectural context?
This project showcases work produced as part of a research project supported by Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design, University of the Arts london.
“Poetic Textiles For Smart Homes” is a design quest which aims at developing innovative textiles for the domestic market. By investigating issues of aesthetics, functions and ethics, the project aims at mapping out new possibilities for textiles to take a leading role in redefining our intimate and emotional relationship with “smart homes”.
The design process explores a combination of new technologies (intelligent textiles, new materials) together with more traditional and low-tech methods of production to generate new “hybrid” designs.
Sustainable values underpin both the design process and the design outcomes. Some of the projects are highly experimental, others are more commercially driven.
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“Home is represented not by a house, but by a practice or a set of practices. Everyone has his own. These practices, chosen and not imposed, offer in their repetition, transient as they are by themselves, more permanence, more shelter than any lodging. Home is no longer a dwelling, but the untold story of a life being lived. At its most brutal, home is no more than one’s name.”
John Berger
keywords:
textiles, sustainable design, science and design, biology, biomimicry, architecture, interactive design, emerging technologies and new materials, sociology, anthropology, futurology, magic, floral design, food design
pop up lace, currently showing at Warp Factor 09 touring exhibition: Tokyo, Guangzhou, London.
