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Exploring dynamic lighting, colour and form with smart textiles
This paper addresses an ongoing research, aiming at the development of smart
textiles that transform the incident light that passes through them – light transmittance – to
design dynamic light without acting upon the light source. A colour and shape change
prototype was developed with the objective of studying textile changes in time; to explore
temperature as a dynamic variable through electrical activation of the smart materials and
conductive threads integrated in the textile substrate; and to analyse the relation between textile
chromic and morphologic behaviour in interaction with light. Based on the experiments
conducted, results have highlighted some considerations of the dynamic parameters involved in
the behaviour of thermo-responsive textiles and demonstrated design possibilities to create
interactive lighting scenarios.This work is supported by FEDER funds through the Operational Programme for Competitiveness Factors – COMPETE and National Funds through FCT – Foundation for Science and Technology within the scope of the projects SFRH/BD/87196/2012, POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007136 and UID/CTM/00264. The authors also like to acknowledge Smart Textiles Design Lab for the support on the prototype development.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio