Designing a Shape Shifting Object

This booklet will take you on a journey into the world of shape memory alloys, by showing the explorative route I have taken. Although the road was not yet paved and sometimes very bumpy, I managed to reach my final goal. I am proud to present ThermoTilt, a responsive insulation layer which uses shape memory alloy’s unique properties to achieve...

Mattress Ticking: Creating circular products

On a yearly bases approximately 1,5 million mattresses are discarded in the Netherlands. Matras Recycling Europe (MRE) is an Utrecht based company that specialises in disassembling mattresses. MRE is able to recycle 250.000 to 300.000 of the 1,5 million mattresses. Most of the pieces that are separated from these mattresses can be re-used in...

Second Skin: An on-the-job Recovery Experience

For us human beings in the West, clothing has become a disposable product that provides us with protection from the environment and displays our sense of style. But, the future of clothing is about to change with the rise of smart textiles. <br/><br/>Enso is a blouse designed for female employees that work in office environments aged 25 to 35...

Designing with 3D Printed Textiles: A case study of Material Driven Design

This paper describes the findings and results of a design project with the goal to design a wearable garment using 3D Printed textiles, which not only has functional or environmental superiorities, but also experiential ones. The approach that was adopted for this project is a recently developed method on Material Driven Design (MDD), which...

Designing [with] 3D Printed Textiles

This master thesis is the result of a graduation project for the master Integrated Product Design the faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology. The title of this thesis is Designing [with] 3D Printed Textiles. The main assignment is to design a meaningful garment using 3D-printed textiles. The approach that was...

Constructed Textiles

The thesis is an exploration of woven textile systems and their translation from the microscale of textures to the macroscale of structures. The purpose is to define their potential use in the building environment as structural skins based on the integration of material properties, structural and daylight criteria. The design of a pavilion,...

Creating a New Strategy: How to communicate and brand “recycled clothes”

Textiles for Textiles project (T4T) was established to develop a new technology that will reduce the ecological impact of the post consumer textiles. The creation of this new technology lowers the recycling time, giving the T4T partners an opportunity to do new businesses with series of products made with recycled textiles. The T4T partners have...