Theme Exhibition
Embroidered Touch | Life Space
Anke Loh (DE)
The Embroidered Touch project aims to reconnect individuals to the physical world through tactile craftsmanship with embedded technology. Anke Loh intends to create a dress that responds to touch through embroidered conductive threads.
Second Skin
Malou Beemer (NL)
Malou Beemer reshapes the relation between us and our clothes by integrating body language and non-verbal behaviour into the design process, making fashion design more interactive and responsive.
Post-Natural Prostheses
Filippo Nassetti (IT), Vincenzo Reale (IT)
Through their collaboration, Filippo Nassetti and Vincenzo Reale are changing the notion of prostheses—from medical devices to customised fashion products — by radically rethinking the relationship between technology in the form of wearable objects and the human body. In the context of the current pandemic, their attention has been drawn to the urgent need for respiratory prostheses.
Syntropia
Sophia Guggenberger (AT), Eugenia Morpurgo (IT)
In their collaboration, Sophia Guggenberger and Eugenia Morpurgo are working on sustainable shoes made from materials that are harvested in a regenerative field, including digital technologies in the fabrication process of the shoes. They are researching not only the technical aspects of these specific processes but also the wider implications of employing different production methods, industrial strategies and digital fabrication.
Needs-Based Bra Alternative
Silke Hofmann (DE)
Silke Hofmann is rethinking the conventional post-mastectomy bra on a structural level to co-create a wearer centric, modular and customizable bra alternative supporting women’s individual needs following breast cancer. In her design practice, Hofmann is interested in the wearer-garment relationship, and in conceptualising garment development processes that advocate consumer participation and co-creation.
Re-THINK FASHION
Re-FREAM CONSORTIUM (INT)
The Re-FREAM Garden shows collaborative research projects where selected artists and designers teamed up with a community of scientists and technologists to rethink the manufacturing process of the fashion industry.
Crash me if you can
Ahmed Alshenoudy (EG), Nikolaus Hofer (AT), Alexander Maletzky (AT), Bernhard Schenkenfelder (AT), Stefan Thumfart (AT) — all working at RISC Software GmbH
We often blindly trust AI-based systems for traffic sign recognition — but where are the limits of machine perception? In Crash Me If You Can we playfully get to the bottom of this question. Visitors have the opportunity to manipulate traffic signs to make a racing car fly out of the curve on a miniature racetrack.
Eurus
Aisen Caro Chacin (US/ES/VE), Christopher Zahner (US)
As a response to the global shortage of ventilators we created Eurus, an emergency ventilator designed for resilience, adaptability, and patient safety, with on-hand hospital medical supplies and common electronic components. It was designed as a low-cost automation device for manual resuscitators, actuated by a blood-pressure cuff, which provides Automated and Assist/Control emergency ventilation to be easily assembled by hospitals in need.
The Museum of Edible Earth
masharu (RU/NL)
The Museum of Edible Earth is a cross-disciplinary project with a core collection of earth samples which are eaten for various reasons by different people across the globe.
Baitul Ma’mur: House of Angels
Joe Davis (US), Sarah Khan (PK)
The project is about to keep 2.417 quintillion angels on the head of a pin.
