IAAC Blog » ESDi http://legacy.iaacblog.com Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia Wed, 07 Oct 2015 10:24:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Close to the Body // Workshop http://legacy.iaacblog.com/blog/2014/close-to-the-body-workshop/ http://legacy.iaacblog.com/blog/2014/close-to-the-body-workshop/#comments Fri, 16 May 2014 20:00:59 +0000 admin http://legacy.iaacblog.com/?p=11969
IAAC Advanced Interaction students along with ESDi students and Estruch artists participated in the Close to the Body workshop, with Oscar Tomico from the Designing Quality in Interaction Research Group at the Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology, in order to research the design wearable’s, the material, the body and performativity

Close To The Body, a project that explores the emerging space offers smart textile technology to investigate the dynamic relationship between the body, textiles and the environment, investigated how the body influences the material and vice versa during the workshop.

Photo credits: Oscar Tomico

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]]> http://legacy.iaacblog.com/blog/2014/close-to-the-body-workshop/feed/ 0 MAI Research Studio: Close to the Body http://legacy.iaacblog.com/blog/2013/mai-research-studio-close-to-the-body/ http://legacy.iaacblog.com/blog/2013/mai-research-studio-close-to-the-body/#comments Thu, 14 Feb 2013 09:30:17 +0000 admin http://legacy.iaacblog.com/?p=9440 This MAI Research Studio will be conducted by the Department of Industrial Design at the Eindhoven University of Technology and specifically by the following professionals: Eunjeong Jeon, Martijn ten Bhomer, Kristi Kuusk, Eva Deckers and Oscar Tomico. Other partners for the research studio will be the Higher School of Design (ESDi), part of the Fundació del Disseny Tèxtil (FUNDIT) by the person of Marina Castan, Bywire.net by the person of Marina Toeters and Sietske Klooster by the person of Sietske Klooster.

The research studio explores smart textile technology as an emergent design space and proposes a new design practice focused in textiles as an intimate and central element in daily life.

More info here.


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