Last week Amanda Parkes and I held a workshop at with textile designers at NABA in Milano entitled "Fashion Metamorphosis" to investigate the potential for transformative fashion to address social and physical problems. We began with a presentation of the latest materials and techniques for smart materials, kinetics, ergonomics, fabrication and digital design. Then we let the students loose with cameras to film stop-motion animations of their visions for a future where fabric could dynamically and autonomously change its own attributes - form, texture, color, etc... They produced a number of very interesting hypotheses which I compiled into this brief video:
Posted April 23rd by amerigo.
