Designing Dynamic Textile Patterns
Doktorsavhandling, 2010

ABSTRACT Designing Dynamic Textile Patterns Progress in chemistry, fibres and polymers technology provides textile designers with new expressive materials, making it possible to design dynamic textile patterns, where several different expressions are inherent in the same textile, textiles that, for example, could alternate between a striped and checkered pattern. Textiles are traditionally designed and produced to keep a given, static expression during their life cycle; a striped pattern is supposed to keep its stripes. In the same way textile designers are trained to design for static expressions, where patterns and decorations are meant to last in a specific manner. However, things are changing. The textile designer now deals also with a new raw material, a dynamic textile, ready to be further designed, developed and/or programmed, depending on functional context. This transformation in practice is not an easy one for the designers. Designers need to learn how to design with these new materials and their specific qualities, to be able to develop the full expressional potential inherent in “smart textiles design”. The aim of this thesis is to display, and discuss, a methodology for designing dynamic textile patterns. So far, something that mainly has been seen in different experimental and conceptual prototypes, in artistic expressions and for commercial efforts etc. In terms of basic experimental research this thesis explores the turn in textile design practice through a series of design experiments with focus on contributing to identifying and characterizing new design variables, new design methods and new design techniques as a foundation for dynamic textile patterns.

smart textiles

textile design

designing dynamic textile patterns

Textilmuseet, Druveforsvägen 8, Borås
Opponent: Senior Lecturer, Mary- Ann Hansen, Danmarks Designskole, Denmark

Författare

Linda Worbin

Chalmers, Data- och informationsteknik, Datavetenskap

Ämneskategorier

Övrig annan samhällsvetenskap

ISBN

978-91-7385-376-7

Technical report D - Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology and Göteborg University: 66

Doktorsavhandlingar vid Chalmers tekniska högskola. Ny serie: 3057

Textilmuseet, Druveforsvägen 8, Borås

Opponent: Senior Lecturer, Mary- Ann Hansen, Danmarks Designskole, Denmark

Mer information

Skapat

2017-10-06