The ISB project was started, as a practice based research project, with the aim of exploring and communicating some of the possibilities within interactive textiles. The applications for interactive textiles range from medical applications to architecture, and from the fashion industry to costume design. In relation to the sample book, focus will be on texture, lightning and senses in relation to integrated decoration and function primarily to indoors applications.
The result of the project is a number of interactive textiles, to be gathered in an interactive sample book (ISB), in a similar way as the sample books of wallpapers one can take home from the shop and choose from. In other words,
it is a kind of display material, which in a simple manner can illustrate how different techniques and smart materials work. The sample book will display a number of possibilities where computer technology, smart materials and textiles are mixed to such an extent that the textile can react to different kinds of input from the surrounding world.
The book will function as an inspirational tool for designers, students, cultural institutions and companies that wish to start working with some of the possibilities that are within interactive textiles. In other words, the ISB should facilitate the following:
- The generation of ideas: by making each textile sample fun, aesthetic and surprising, by making it tell a story and stimulate the senses, the ISB will stimulate new ideas.
This video presents the concept #1:
Touch generated shape change
Story: The textile that can move
This sample combines Shape Memory Materials with touch sensors and Priyas plissé fabrics.
Description: Each Shape Memory thread is connected to a power source, which will heat up the actual thread when activated. The threads are more or less hidden under an overlaying fabric. Each thread forms a series of patterns, that all change shape at the same time when the thread is activated. By using several threads, different patterns are created at different times. The designer activates the different threads by touching certain areas of the sample. To make the shape memory thread regain its original shape, it has to be stretched out. Colours are hidden by the plissé fabrics, and then revealed by the movement in the fabric, just like a peacock. Buttons or glitter can also be used to create decorative effects.
Idea: Shape change, movement, and reversibility; The textile is organic and alive.
Senses: Sight and Touch.
Input: Touch Temperature change.
Output: Movement Shape change.
Project partners
Elisabeth Heimdal is educated as textile engineer from Borås, Sweden and has previously been working with smart textiles as part of her study. Projects about smart textiles include knitting with optical fibres, and developing a stress monitoring system for Danish soldiers.
Torben Lenau, who is supervisor on the project, is Associate Professor at the Department of Management Engineering at DTU, and has a broad experience with materials, among other smart materials and their use in product development. He has worked on The Beetle project, which investigates and tries to imitate the colourful surfaces of beetles, and has developed the material website www.designinsite.dk.
Priya Mani is a professional Indian textile designer, based in Copenhagen. Trained at the NID (National Institute of Design) in India, she runs her own design studio in Copenhagen
Marija Andonovska is doing her master thesis at meddialogi, Aalborg university.
- The conviction that smart materials can be used: by providing a technical insight into smart materials and interactive textiles, it will facilitate their actual use.
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