Nitinol prototype from Copenhagen workshop

Architectural prototype made by students at the workshop held at CITA, at the Royal Academy in Copenhagen. Thanks to Mette Ramsgard Thomsen. Collaborators: Joanna Berzowska, XS Labs in Montreal, Canada,
Marcello Coello, MIT Media Lab
Textiles, Danmarks Design School
Afdeling 2, KARCH
Date December 2006
The workshop invited a cross disciplinary group of students from Department 2 and Textiles at Danmarks Design School to explore the embedding of reactive 'smart' materials into the bespoke membranes developed in the Knitted Skins work-shop.
Memory polymers are used for suture in keyhole surgery and can be purchased in sheets but also in fluid state for casting. Using the mem-branes developed by the students in the first two workshops the idea is to embed or en-knit the memory polymers into the structure and use simple trigger to activate their state change.

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Howto & Style

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• xslabs
• nitinol
• smart
• textile
• electronic
• fabric
• shape
• memory
• alloy

[CARE2DOTCOM]

@jackm7127 It is.

[hilers72652]

it's actually something like that, only it's a memory cloth instead of wire.

[jackm7127]

i think thats what batman's cape is made out of. ahaha