Toeters, Marina; ten Bhömer, Martijn; Bottenberg, Eliza; Tomico, Oscar; Brinks, Ger
Research through design allows creating a dialogue with the material. It
uses making and reflection on action as a generator of knowledge. Our
aim is to explore the opportunities and challenges of smart textiles.
The Fablab is our set up, a place that allows us to combine the hacking-
scientific-, and design community. It stimulates collaboration and the
knowledge exchange needed for the development of smart textile systems. A
collaborative prototyping workshop for medical products combined two
worlds. The textile world in Saxion aims at incorporating conductive
materials into textile structures and functional- / 3D printing to
create systems for applications such as flexible heating systems and
wearable technology. We combined this with the world of Industrial
Design at TU/e, focused on the design of intelligent products, systems
and services by the research through design approach. The collaboration
between these different disciplines speeded up the process by reducing
the resistance to the new and skipped the frustration on failure.
4th International Conference on Smart Materials, Structures and Systems
