exhibits

RE_Sampling is exploring the process of cellulose production by bacteria as a way to produce yarn directly in the laboratory rather than agriculturally. This could reduce the consumption of agricultural land, water and pesticides in the future.

Today’s garments are mass-produced in generic sizes and are not tailored to the individual’s body shape, needs, or comfort. Active Textile Tailoring is a system for knit garments that can be activated in the store or at home and can adapt itself to the person’s body.

Interested in making your own wearable? The Wearic Smart Textiles Kit is the world’s first do-it-yourself package with textile sensors. The kit contains sensors for pressure, wetness, heat, as well as pushbuttons and LED, which can be combined in any way.

In the projects second skin the artist experiments with bio-based plastic to design clothes inspired by human skin. Bioplastic is produced from the renewable resources glycerine, water, agar, and gelatine.

The project Metamaterial Devices has created physical objects consisting of many small cells that can move together like a machine in a coordinated manner and perform a mechanical function. This is completely defined by the microstructure of the material. Thus the material becomes a machine.

Visual Invisibility deals with the aesthetics of molecular technology, in which biological structures are made to glow. Various textiles have been treated with additive nanoimprint technology, which makes it possible to add special functions to a surface, to produce the changing light- reflecting effects.

The Meat Factory by Shahar Livne is a series of material experiments that creates a dissonance between natural and industrial production. The focus is on the production of bio leather from waste materials from the meat industry and the use of blood as a dye and plasticizer.