Designing for a start; irreversible dynamic textile patterns

Textiles are traditionally designed to keep a given expression; a floral pattern is supposed to stay floral. However, contemporary technology and material development is changing both production and expression and requires rethinking in production and the design practice to meet the future of textiles.  Through experimental, practiced based design research this project focus on the notion of change as a central design variable. The textile colours are crafted from plant dye to evolve over time.  The objective of this project is to show an alternative dimension towards sustainability through changeability built into an expression. Instead of replacing an object when we need/want another color, function or expression, the changing expression could be integrated in the materiality and design itself. Creating a design that appears and develops over time, with a starting point, but without an end. Los textiles son tradicionalmente diseñados para mantener una expresión dada. Un patrón floral se supone que debe permanecer floral. Sin embargo, la tecnología contemporánea y el desarrollo de materiales están cambiando tanto la producción como la expresión, y requiere un replanteamiento de la producción y la práctica del diseño para satisfacer el futuro de los textiles. A través de la experimentación, investigación de diseño basada en la práctica, este proyecto se centra en la noción de cambio como una variable central de diseño. Los colores textiles que se elaboraban a partir de tintas vegetales, han evolucionado con el tiempo.  El objetivo de este proyecto es mostrar una dimensión alternativa hacia la sostenibilidad a través del cambio incorporado en una expresión. En lugar de reemplazar un objeto cuando necesitamos/deseamos otro color, función o apariencia, la expresión cambiante podría integrarse en la materialidad y en el diseño mismo; creando un diseño que aparece y se desarrolla con el tiempo, con un punto de partida, pero sin fin.Os têxteis são tradicionalmente concebidos para manter uma determinada expressão. Um padrão floral deve permanecer floral. No entanto, a tecnologia contemporâ- nea e desenvolvimento de materiais estão mudando tanto a produção e expressão, e exige um repensar da produção e design prático para atender o futuro dos têxteis.  Através da experimentação, pesquisa em design baseada na prática, este projeto centra-se na noção de mudança como uma variável de projeto central. As cores têxteis que foram produzidas a partir de tintas vegetais evoluíram ao longo do tempo.  O objetivo do presente projeto é mostrar uma dimensão alternativa para a sustentabilidade através da mudança incorporada numa expressão. Em vez de substituir um objeto quando precisamos / quer outra cor, função ou aparência, a expressão dinâmica poderia ser integrada no material e no design mesmo; a criação de um projeto que surge e se desenvolve ao longo do tempo, com um ponto de partida, mas não tem fim

Smart textiles as raw materials for design

Materials fabricate the designed artefact, but they can also play an important role in the design process; as a medium or method used to develop the design. Textiles can, with their soft and flexible properties, be easily transformed and altered in numerous ways; for example, by cutting, folding or printing on the material. This transformative character makes textiles interesting sketching media for surface explorations when designing artefacts. The development of transformable materials; for example, fusible yarns and colour changing pigments, have expanded these inherent transformative qualities of textiles and have opened up the design field of smart textiles. Accordingly, this new material context has created a new area for textile designers to explore, where it is possible to enhance and play with the alterable character of their textiles, and control their transformation through physical manipulation and programming. However, these expanded transformative properties also open up a new task for textile designers; to design "smart textiles as raw materials for design". By this term we mean, textiles that are not finished in their design but that can be developed and enhanced when they take part in a product or space design process. In this article, we explore and start to define what smart textiles as raw materials for design can be, and look at how these materials can come into and add something to another design process. The foundation for this exploration is a number of textile examples from the “Smart Textiles sample collection” and our experiences when developing and designing with them. (The Smart Textiles sample collection is a range of textiles that is designed and produced by the Smart Textile Design Lab, to give students, designers and researchers direct access to different types of smart textiles). The possibilities and limitations of smart textiles as raw materials for design are explored by looking at the textile examples from two perspectives: firstly, by looking at the considerations that come with designing this type of textile design, and secondly by looking at what these transformative textiles can bring to another design process. Each example is analyzed and classified according to what transformable design variables for structure and surface change can be embedded in the textile design, and what design variables this subsequently creates for a design process that uses these materials i.e., describing what type of transformation different examples of smart textiles introduce to the design process/design space; whether the change is reversible or irreversible, and whether the change occurs through physical or through digital manipulation of the material. This article ends with a discussion of how smart textiles in the form of raw materials for design could influence how we design textiles and how we design with textiles. Can transformative materials enrich material explorations in a design process? Can further development and alteration of the material design be introduced or defined by the textile designer? Could smart textiles as raw materials for design open up a stronger connection between the design of textiles and the design of the product or spaces where they will be used

Подходы к оценке экономической эффективности энергосберегающих мероприятий

Материалы XII Междунар. науч.-техн. конф. (науч. чтения, посвящ. П. О. Сухому), Гомель, 22–23 нояб. 2018 г

Alternative Presents for Dynamic Fabric

In this paper we investigate how a combination of "speculative" design methods can be used to generate theoretical understandings for dynamic, colour-changing fabrics for garments. Specifically, we combine a first-person, autobiographical, research through design (RtD) approach that draws strategies from speculative design. We call this approach alternative presents, inspired by the work of James Auger, and explore it as a way to generate theoretical propositions for dynamic fabric that emphasize the lived experience over technological innovation. The contributions of this framing are twofold. Firstly, we offer a theoretical contribution to the literature on dynamic fabric. Secondly, we make a methodological contribution for how autobiographical design and RtD can be oriented speculatively to generate intermediate knowledge, with particular emphasis on social-technical aspects

Dynamic textile patterns : using Smart textile

It is the possibilities to create dynamic textile patterns in Smart Textiles that isin focus in this report. The result will be presented in form of different materialand pattern samples. The samples show both different technical solutions andinteractions needed to develop a dynamic textile pattern.My intention with this work is to enlarge the use of a decoration, as somethingmore than a static extra value. We do have a need for beautiful things in oursurrounding and I want to explore how dynamic patterns could give decorationan extended use. Where new kinds of values can be included, interaction and theinformation. The result can be applied in further research concerning bothwearables, fashion, soft furnishing as well as for public environment forcommunications.Program: DesignteknikerutbildningenUppsatsnivå: D</p

In the making : designing with smart textiles

The past decade has seen an increasing interest in our small-scale experimental textiles at the design lab at the Swedish School of Textiles. Representatives from various industries and professions have visited to find out more about our so called smart textiles and to collect product samples. We want to encourage designers to work directly with the textile material in the design process to enlarge the understanding for how to design with smart textile materials. Weand we are currently working to develop a collection of samples of “smart textile sample collection ́s for designers to use and work with, enabling them to better understand the great potential of smart textiles. This article also describes some new design variables regarding dynamic textile patterns; a result from the thesis Designing Dynamic Textile Patterns (Worbin 2010)

Dynamic Textile Patterns: designing with smart textiles

New smart textile materials have been investigated and show that today`s textile patterns can be designed to offer more than traditional textile patterns do. The prototypes of dynamic textile patterns designed in this thesis are brought about in a new design process that takes smart textile materials into consideration. These prototypes also exemplify new user scenarios for textile and interaction design. As they have the ability to form textile patterns with a range of expressions inherent in one textile pattern, the proposed dynamic textile pattern show that textile patterns can be used for collecting and sharing information

Färgföränderliga textila uttryck, en undersökning genom växtfärgning

Jag blev beviljad ett vistelsestipendium på Eckerö Post och Tullhus, Åland under perioden 10 juni till den 21 juli sommaren 2013, detta är min reseberättelse om vad jag gjorde, med dagboksanteckningar och bilder från vistelsen och utställning i min atelje i samband med öppethus.I naturen och årstiderna finns en ständig föränderlighet, samtidigt som det finns en konstant upprepning i dygnet och året.I mina textila experiment växt-färgar jag utan betmedel (alltså inga tillsatta kemikalier) för att undersöka naturens inneboende flyktighet, där något träder fram och ett annat försvinner. Kommer de Ålandsfärgade textilierna förändras om tio månader, ett år, fem år?Sponsorship:Ålands Landskapsregering och Smart Textiles</p

Irreversible Color Expressions

Contemporary preconception of color within textile design is more or less seen as a static and measurable phenomena, but in this project will the opposite be investigated, textile colors are crafted to investigate expressions that is evolving over time. This practice based design research project presents a series of textile color samples that will give guidance to a number of plant dyed expressions. Textiles are dyed without any mordant, meaning no added chemical or salts that will influence on the color or color fastness. The objective in this project is to investigate and visualize color changing textile expressions from plant dye, and to verify the changing process within the color samples. This will be documented and fulfilled in two phases:  Åland 2013 - Report no.1 (this report) plant dyed samples are documented and presented as visual scanned color samples with foundational information like; materials, plants, dyeing methods etc. Evaluation of first phase in the project covering what visual color you get from different combination of textile materials/fibres and plants etc.  Åland 2013 - Report no.2 (to be presented) same samples will be juxtaposed and presented a second time, after being exposed to light etc. in x time. Evaluation and comparison between the scanned samples presented in report no. 1 and in report no. 2 with respect to visual color changes.Åland 2013 _ report no. 1</p