In the context of an increasingly changing sensual access of humans to their environment due to digitalization and automation, «TACTILE MATTERS» examined to what extend clothing as a second skin worn directly at the body has the potential to positively act on its carrier well-being through its tactile qualities and to place them in the ‘here and now’.
The «tactile tracksuits» are a speculative shape acquisition of the engagement with the tactile sense systemas and function as metaphor for raising awareness of the haptic properties of clothing as well as a way of playfully combining digital and analog worlds in the production methods. Furthermore they can also recognize as a thought-provoking impulse to request existing design logics in industry and our own handling with clothing — especially in the context of a visually ever faster pulsing fashion industry.