The unfolding of textileness in animated textiles:

The unfolding of textileness in animated textiles:: An exploration of woven textile-forms

Buso, A. (TU Delft Emerging Materials)
McQuillan, H.L. (TU Delft Emerging Materials)
Jansen, K.M.B. (TU Delft Emerging Materials)
Karana, E. (TU Delft Emerging Materials)

Lockton, Dan (editor)
Lenzi, Sara (editor)
Hekkert, Paul (editor)
Oak, Arlene (editor)
Sádaba, Juan (editor)
Lloyd, Peter (editor)

2022

Designers of textile-based interactive systems tend to treat woven fabrics as static materials and lack deeper understandings of how the textile can be designed for responsive behaviours in artefacts. As a result, in most studies across design and HCI, textiles are employed as substrates for computational, biological, or smart materials. This narrow view limits the potential of textiles that can be programmed to express responsive behaviour through their inherent material qualities. Our paper aims at bridging this gap in the design of animated textile artefacts. We present woven textile-forms where textile structures are programmed to tune the behaviour of low-melt polyester yarn that shrinks when heat is applied, resulting in complex topological and textural woven forms that can change over time. Foregrounding woven-forms as a medium for animated textiles, our work calls for design and HCI researchers to pay attention to textileness for prolonged relationships between users and animated textile artefacts while eliminating waste from production and end of life.

animated textiles
textileness
woven textile-forms
smart textiles

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:3c35302a-92a9-440b-acb8-26bbfdd1d499

https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2022.612

Design Research Society, Bilbao, Spain

978-1-91229-457-2

DRS Conference Proceedings 2022

DRS 2022, 2022-06-25 → 2022-07-03, Bilbao, Spain

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Institutional Repository

conference paper

© 2022 A. Buso, H.L. McQuillan, K.M.B. Jansen, E. Karana