User:Dionne/Process Tools of the Trade

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TACTILITY

• Sensory ability

• E-textiles

• stimulates the sense to touch

• makes the fabric come to life

• interact with the user*

• Playful three dimensional effect

• Tactile experience

* You can only fully experience the fabric by touching it

The theme that I am going to work with for the tools & trade project is: tactility.
In combination with the craft textile surface design.
The surfaces that I want to make have a sensory ability and are e-textiles.
They stimulate the sense to touch and it makes the fabric come to life.
It wil interact with the user, because you can only fully experience the fabric by touching it.
It will have a playful three dimensional effect which will give a tactile experience.

• An escape from your digitized everyday life*

• To reconnect with people in your surroundings

• To redefine your own identity

• Ability to change & adapt to our fast fashion industry

• Gives a new textile experience

*A respond to our contemporary society’s digitization

A few scenarios that exist while using these surfaces are the following:
It is an escape from your digitized everyday life and daily rituals.
This surface is a respond to our contemporary society’s digitization.
It will help you to reconnect with people in your surroundings, because you can experience it with as many people as you like.
It will redefine your own identity and show others where you stand for.
This surface has the ability to change & adapt to our fast fashion industry without having to throw it away immedieatly, this can be used for a longer period of time.
All together this will give you a new textile experience.

Graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven with Print in Motion garments. 

They produce visual effects as the wearer moves. 

This is called the moiré effect. 

Although this is more about motion instead of touch, I like that her approach make the prints come to life. 

Is an augmented modeling tool that lets you design 3d printed wearables directly on your body. 

It uses depth sensing and projection mapping to detect and display touch gestures on the skin. 

Every design is ready to be 3d printed and worn back on the body. 

This project makes 3d printing accessible for the user and stimulates your touch senses. 

Designed 'Tactile Dialogues' which is a textile object in the form of a pillow with integrated vibration elements that react on touch. 

Their goal is to trigger physical communication patterns between a person with severe dementia and a family member. 

What I like about this project is that it let the user reconnect with people they're surrounded with. 

As a result of the dominance of visual and digital information in design, the surface qualities of our 

immediate surroundings are often disregarded. 

She says 'We live in a polished environment with little focus on haptic experiences'. 

The diversity of tactile stimuli in nature is significantly larger than in our artificial surroundings. 

With her project she questioned 'Why couldn't man made objects offer, similarly stimulating experiences?'. 

She times to translate natures qualities into interior surfaces. 

TOOLS OF THE TRAD PLAN

• Craft: Designing prints for textiles through the digital software Adobe Illustrator. 

• Problem: The physical experience between the user and the computer is very limited. There is not much interaction with the software other then clicks and swipes on a trackpad.

• Tool (Kit): A tangible visualization of enhanced Illustrator tools that are physically exiting and triggers the sense to touch. 

• It creates a relation of the physical interface between humans and computers.