Abstract First Scenographers’ Festival Basel

IN3 - First Scenographers’ Festival Basel
23 - 26 Nov 2006
Academy of Art and Design
Basel, Switzerland

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The Institute Interior Architecture and Scenography FHNW, Academy of Art and Design in Basel presents IN3 Spatial Arts Festival focusing on the potentials in merging the arts, architecture and design towards scenographical spaces.

Mathias and Rachel will be speaking on Saturday the 25th about responsive textiles.

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Title: Responsive Textiles: redefining the role of the craftsperson

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Keywords: Responsive Textiles, Biomimicry, Craft, Synergy, Architextiles, Pattern Language

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Abstract: Loop.pH will discuss their research and hands on experience with responsive textiles. They will iterate the importance of learning from both traditional craft based practices alongside new materials and technologies. Their work explores how spaces can be transformed by the creation of textiles that propagate in response to and in synergy with their environment. Their textiles articulate a natural ecology and evoke a living botanical material that questions the boundaries between nature and man-made interventions.

The proliferation of textiles has historically played a significant role in the development of technology and today the relationship between the two is increasingly important. Miniaturisation of technology allows wireless communication devices, microprocessors and sensors to be embedded in everyday textiles. Through a wide range of emergent technologies, the process of ‘making’ in the creative field is becoming increasingly virtual and mechanized through the use of computer aided design (CAD).

Technology and computation are viewed as simply another set of materials to be skillfully manipulated in a similar way to the more familiar textiles, yarns and filaments. The limitation of computation is often overlooked, as no computed simulation works identically to physical materials. Loop.pH’s focus is on interrogating these limitations as a means of furthering practice in this field.

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