This project was a collaboration between Exploratec and the Fashion Design and Management degree, for the Textile and Material Innovation course.
It experiments through weaving processes, to design future languages, around the question: how do we give voice to textiles?
Each student designs a garment (e-texile) woven from a natural material, which, when activated, must give voice and emit a sound that evokes its origin, to make us reflect on its history, territory, processes, tradition.
Basic weaving skills are taught in order to use Ashford 8-ply looms. In addition to the objective of opening the spectrum of material exploration, taking into account a local perspective and sustainable practices applied to design, the skills of digital interaction as well as basic electronic concepts, for a fashion design student profile that does not use programming in their daily practice.
Design and development
Robotina, a textile interface is designed to allow programming in an analog way (without accessing a console or prior knowledge of coding).
The students define the interaction that their textile will achieve (where and how the user interacts with the garment) and what is the result generated by the touch (in the image shown, the outcome is sound when the garment is touched).
In the fabric, conductive wires are used to carry the current and connect the electronic components.
Presentation
https://drive.google.com/file/d/114kH2_R03KaPIHsm-sJh6Zi0ghE6LTpD/view
Ricardo Vidal Lynch 