This project was a month-long arts-and-research-residency, in which four textile and fashion designers engaged in collaborative crafting and debating on technical and artistic knowledge embedded in folds and folding. In this residency we explored textile technologies and construction methods to design, fabricate and analyse three-dimensional dynamic materiality in electronic textiles. The focus was on sensor structures achieved by knitting, weaving, pleating and coating prototyping techniques. Material behaviour and possible design spaces emerging from co-working were reflected on.

Outputs:

• Greinke, Berit, Sophie Skach, Pauline Vierne, Arantza Vilas, and Emma Wood. “Folded Electronic Textiles: Weaving, Knitting, Pleating and Coating Three-Dimensional Sensor Structures.” Leonardo, 2022, 235–39. https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_02183.

• For a full library of sample images see here https://www.flickr.com/photos/17668232@N03/albums/72157716556630047/

Participating artists were Emma Wood (weaving), Sophie Skach (knitting), Arantza Vilas (pleating) and Pauline Vierne (coating). Funded through the ECDF Wearable Computing research grant.