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October 17, 2005

Soft-wear: Active Materials

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Symposium :: Workshop :: Open Lab

Soft-wear: Active Materials is a part of the x-med-k. series of workshops, organised by Nadine, 0kn0 and FoAM.

Bite-size Symposium [25/26 October 2005]; Workshop [25-31 October 2005]; Open Lab [31 October 2005]: where: 0kn0, Koolmijnenkaai 30-34 Quai des Charbonnages, B-1080 Brussels, Belgium.

The era of garments, furniture and buildings designed as static and predefined objects [with short expiration dates] is drawing to an end. Fashion and architecture are on the verge of becoming dynamic, semi-permeable membranes open to the diverse surroundings enveloping the human body. The Soft-wear symposium, workshop and open lab will offer a glimpse into the world of active materials that form the foundation of these novel design paradigms. Soft-wear is a place where electronics meets the traditional crafts of weaving, dyeing and knitting fibres and threads, to produce materials that can respond to touch, temperature, light and other external stimuli. They are used as tangible interfaces and displays for fashion, architecture, design, performance and other forms of contemporary creative expression, where the edge between materials and media rapidly dissolves.

Posted by jo at October 17, 2005 11:32 AM

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