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.
TACTILE MATTERS
– Tactile field research on the boundaries of clothing
2020 Master Thesis, University of Arts and Design Basel (FHNW)
Published in
M. Müller & Sohn, Portrait „Stoffe, die Berühren!“ 07.20
PAGE Magazin „Berührende Mode“ 04.20 and Online Publication 11.04.20
UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING
Artistic assistant in the research project: «Paradigms of Ubiquitous Computing», 2020.
Direction: Jan Torpus at Institute of Experimental Design and Media Cultures (IXDM) Basel, CH.
Conception and design of multisensory, interactive clothing for the the research setup.
Using 3D software, simple weaving patterns were reproduced and translated into digital patterns and then applied to a support material using a modified 3D printer. Depending on the amount applied, a dynamic of its own is created, which leads to material warping and deformation, similar to a bulging fabric. The shape and structure of the materials are reminiscent of a textile-forming technique, but the homogenisation of 3D printing gives them a new aesthetic and a new material behaviour.
Crafting Digital Fabrics — Part I
explores the possibility of combining digital tools and physical production on textile material. The artistic research interest focuses on the question: Which digital manufacturing processes can be applied to textiles? In contrast to or in combination with traditional manufacturing processes? And what does this mean for the perception of these materials?
2021
Supported by the MWK Baden-Württemberg
Photo credits Elia Luca Dylan Schmid
POETIC CIRCUITS
Textile Electronic Workshop
Together with Sophie Kellner
2020 University of Arts and Design Basel (FHNW)
FIND YOUR OWN STROKE
Wax crayon that questions common drawing tools.
Developed for the Picasso exhibition The Young Picasso - Blue and Rose Period at Fondation Beyeler in Basel.
2019 in Cooperation with Fondation Beyeler and FHNW Basel.
– Shop coming soon!
Published in
Brigitte Woman "Wachsmalgriffel" 05.19
Raum und Wohnen „Junges Design für Picasso“ 04.19
AD Architectural Digest „Neues Malen“ 04.19
wohnrevue „Aus Kunst wird Design“ 03.19
MIS MAGAZIN "(Er) wachsen wie Picasso" 03.19
© 2021 Jennifer Keusgen