The research studio will be conducted by the Department of Industrial Design at the Eindhoven University of Technology and specifically by the following persons: Eunjeong Jeon, Martijn ten Bhomer, Kristi Kuusk, Eva Deckers and Oscar Tomico (contact person). Partners to 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 appearance of smart textile technology leads to completely new possibilities to design for human wellbeing. The research studio explores this emergent design space and proposes a new design practice. A practice that acknowledges that textiles are an intimate and central element in daily life, completely interwoven with our conscious and unconscious behavior and identity. A practice that exhibits a sensitivity to embodied interaction, acknowledges the importance of posture and movement, and appreciates the 1st person perspective. A practice that confronts the practicalities of integrating the worlds of electronics, fashion, manufacturing and design. To enable this practice, the research studio focuses on 3 key challenges: 1) exploring the dynamic relation between the body, textiles and context, 2) developing interaction styles that fit close to the body, and 3) getting smart textiles close to market ready product service systems (PSS).

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Bani Brusain is leading the Radical communication workshop.
The aim of the workshop is experimentation in art and technology pointing at the connection between the individual, her communities of choice and society at large. The challenge of DIY culture in the information age and the promise of participation in the age of networks.

The MAI students presented the Smart Net Studio Project that they have been developing during the december and january. The 6 groups of students proposed each one an intervention based in the Fablab “smart citizen” project. The work was presented in front of the tutors that have been leading the students research, and in front of the jury, composed by different experts related to the fields of interaction, economy and engineering.
Here you have the presentations

MAI_Master in Advanced Interaction2013-2013 – Smart Net Studio final presentation

Presentation Schedule

05.00pm Introduction and Presentation

05.20pm Presentation Session

07.00pm Closing Speach

07.15pm Drink

As a MAI lecture, Bani Brusadin talk about guerrilla communication in the information society. Through the lens of camouflage and other radical narratives, explored the meaning and potential of non conventional forms of activist art before and after the age of the Internet.

Bani Brusadin is a free lance producer and researcher in the troubled water where art, digital technologies, popular cultures and politics clash. In the last decade he has been involved in several art, activist and research projects, exploring the power of fake, improper identities and new forms of subcultural epics. In 2004 he co-founded The Influencers, a small cult festival about non conventional forms of art and communication. The 9th edition of The Influencers will take place in Fall 2013.