IT + Textiles

'IT+Textiles' is a three-year design research program led by the Interactive Institute and Newmad Technologies in Sweden, where traditional textile design meets and, at least to some extent, falls in love with computational technology.

The research program motivated by the need for an aeshetics of, and design methods for, the use of new textiles and computational technology as design materials. We aim to combine perspectives from fashion, textile and interaction design to find new approaches to the design of computational things. We use experimental design methods to broaden our understanding of textiles and information technology as material for design by means of creating a repertoire of design examples that illustrate what can be done within this area.

A proposal for a design research program for this area was presented in the Nordic Textile Journal No. 1, 2002.
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The book IT+Textiles is now published!
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