HEAT — Designing for the Climate of Tomorrow

       HEAT — Designing for the Climate of Tomorrow

Changing climatic conditions demand a rethinking of everyday clothing design. Conventional garments reach their limits when it comes to thermoregulation, protection, and cooling—especially under extreme heat stress. With the projected global rise in temperatures, the risk of life-threatening heatwaves increases as well—making this a pressing issue for design, material innovation, and societal resilience.

As part of an interdisciplinary workshop, students first received an introduction to the physiological effects of heat stress on the human body. Building on this foundation, we explored and developed experimental alternative clothing systems and material-based approaches with the potential to actively contribute to cooling in everyday use.

The resulting prototypes were then tested in the climate chamber of the TUM SENSE LAB to evaluate their thermoregulatory effectiveness—marking a first step toward adaptive, future-oriented functional clothing in the context of increasingly extreme weather conditions.

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