Every second Wednesday, the Circular Industries Talks are organised at the Circular Industries Hub. On Wednesday March 22, Holly McQuillan presented at the Circular Industries Talks. Holly Mcquillan is Assistant Professor on Multimorphic Textile Systems at TU Delft. In this article we reflect on her talk. Curious for more? Take a look at the recording at the bottom of this page.
Conformal, Seamless, Sustainable: Multimorphic Textile-Forms as a Material-Driven Approach for Design and HCI
Key take aways:
- HCI textiles – such as smart wearables - has a sustainability problem, and the field risks compounding the unsustainability of disposable technology with the wider textile industry’s existing problems of textile waste and exploitative practices.
- While material-driven approaches unveil the potential for tuning textile qualities for desired experiences that make interactive textiles more relevant in our daily lives, continuing to address textile and form as separate components limits the degree of seamlessness and embeddedness possible for interactive textile objects.
- How do we achieve conformal, and seamless experiences in interactive/smart/animate textiles - which are also sustainable?
- Multimorphic Textile-form thinking can aid designers to synergistically build behavior and experience throughout the textile system.
- Localized, variable and tunable material experience can be seamlessly embedded via the material, its textile structure and its form by design.
- This can be adapted specifically to individual users’ needs at time of design and production (on-demand) and by the user themselves to further enrich experiences and extend the products life.
- With Multimorphic Textile-forms, we hope to inspire designers to develop tools, collaborate on new materials and processes that enable the tuning of textile-form behavior across material, interaction, and ecological scales for conformal, seamless, and sustainable outcomes.
Curious about the whole story? Listen to Holly McQuillan, about multimorphic textile-forms in the Circular Industries Talks
The Circular Industries talks
The goal of the Circular Industries talks is to share knowledge across Leiden, Delft and Erasmus and to complement and deepen the knowledge already available within the Circular Industries Hub. The talks are organized on Wednesday morning from 10:00 to 11:00. The talks are online (Microsoft Teams).
Next up in the CI Talks: Circular Textiles with Renske van den Berge
Cover image credits: Holly McQuillan: Weaving Multimorphic Textile-Forms » The Weave Shed