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FASHION-able. hacktivism and engaged fashion design Otto von Busch (School of Design and Crafts (HDK) Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts University of Gothenburg) 2008 open source fashion, hacktivism, reverse engineering, book
Thesis: This thesis consists of a series of extensive projects which aim to explore a new designer role for fashion. It is a role that experiments with how fashion can be reverse engineered, hacked, tuned and shared among many participants as a form of social activism. This social design practice can be called the hacktivism of fashion. It is an engaged and collective process of enablement, creative resistance and DIY practice, where a community share methods and experiences on how to expand action spaces and develop new forms of craftsmanship. In this practice, the designer engages participants to reform fashion from a phenomenon of dictations and anxiety to a collective experience of empowerment, in other words, to make them become fashion-able. As its point of departure, the research takes the practice of hands-on exploration in the DIY upcycling of clothes through “open source” fashion “cookbooks”. By means of hands-on processes, the projects endeavour to create a complementary understanding of the modes of production within the field of fashion design. The artistic research projects have ranged from DIY-kits released at an international fashion week, fashion experiments in galleries, collaborative “hacking” at a shoe factory, engaged design at a rehabilitation centre as well as combined efforts with established fashion brands. Using parallels from hacking, heresy, fan fiction, small change and professional-amateurs, the thesis builds a non-linear framework by which the reader can draw diagonal interpretations through the artistic research projects presented. By means of this alternative reading new understandings may emerge that can expand the action spaces available for fashion design. This approach is not about subverting fashion as much as hacking and tuning it, and making its sub-routines run in new ways, or in other words, bending the current while still keeping the power on.
Fibre2fashion (Fibre2fashion) sourcing & marketing requirements, fashion industry, texile apparel, platforms, company, business, innovative brand
Established in 2000, Fibre2fashion is an ISO 9001:2001 company. It is amongst the worldís largest B2B platforms for the global Textile-Apparel and Fashion industry, unbiased and committed to serving the demands of the entire value chain. We are not only an e-trade platform facilitating the sourcing & marketing requirements but also a provider of first-hand information on various aspects of textile, apparel and fashion industries, 24x7, globally. Fibre2fashion also helps small, medium and large business houses from across the globe to capture and increase their market share by providing cost effective and innovative brand promotion solutions for reaching to the largest international target audience in the shortest time.
ISWC (ISWC 2010) 2010 fashion designers, product vendors, researchers, mobile technologies, on-body, wearables computers, wearable computing, meeting, conference, symposium, textile manufactures, users, share information
ISWC'10, the fourteenth annual IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers, is the premier forum for wearable computing and issues related to on-body and worn mobile technologies. ISWC'10 will bring together researchers, product vendors, fashion designers, textile manufacturers, users, and related professionals to share information and advances in wearable computing. ISWC'10 explicitly aims to broaden its scope to include cell phones and cell phone applications as they have become the most successful wearable computer to date.
Johnny Holland Jeroen van Geel collective, creatives, share, interactions, learn, experience, design
Johnny Holland is an open collective of creatives who want to share and learn from each other. Everybody who wants to share something about the interactions of experience design is invited to join. Below you find a list of all the Johnnies that are currently involved.
KnitPro (microRevolt) website, application, digital image, knit, pattern, stitch
knitPro is a free web application that translates digital images into knit, crochet, needlepoint and cross-stitch patterns. Simply upload jpeg, gif or png images and knitPro will generate a graph sizable for any fiber project. knitPro digitally mimics the tradition of pre-industrial craft circles who freely shared patterns and passed them down from generation to generation.
Lantor (Lantor B.V.) transportation, marine, Fiber Reinforced Plastics, composites, Waterblocking Yarns, Semi-conductive waterblocking tapes, electrical industry, cable product, innovations, textile manufacturing industry, Nonwoven Fabric, organization, construction, leisure, sanitary and aerospace industries, wind energy solutions, CondenStop membrane, costumised products
Lantor focusses on the development, manufacturing and global marketing of nonwovens for industrial applications in the Cable, Composites, Construction and Packaging industries. We provide innovative, high value added solutions and respect our relationships with customers, employees, suppliers, shareholders and the community.
Public Fashion Orchestra, Network Ideologies Alexandra Von Feldmann fashion house, fashion, intelligent clothes, buy, sell
The "Public Fashion Orchestra" is a fashion house which sells intelligent clothes and their behaviours. All clothes of this brand are networked with each other and when in range are able to share designs and eventually other data; the fashion designer is able to feed new designs and behaviours into the system. The clothes do not only receive, transmit, transform and show the data, they also remember and thereby limit it: once the clothes are "full", they cannot participate in the network anymore unless you get rid of their data manually: do the laundry!
Puff & Flock Kathy Schicker (Puff & Flock-textile design laboratory) academic research, fine arts, material science, design, innovation, share, group, textile designers, storytelling, product design, unconvetional, statement for textiles
We are a recently formed group of textile designers, bound by a shared vision for the future direction of design. Far from the common perception of textile designers as girls who draw flowers, we are individuals who integrate aspects of material science, fine arts, academic research, storytelling, and product design into our practice. Because this broad understanding of textile design is still considered unconventional, we join forces to create a stronger statement for textiles.
Ritmo Pregnancy (Nuvo) safe, music, sound, wearable, pregnancy, gadget, fun, music player, stylish
The Ritmo Advanced Sound System by Nuvo is the most advanced and complete prenatal music player, delivering quality and safe sound to the tiniest listeners. Ritmo allows you and your baby to share the sensory and emotional experience of bonding through sound and music, while being supportive, safe, and stylish at the same time.
Yala Sofa Elliat Rich Design Laminex, plywood, digital print, Thermochromatic ink, stainless steel components
The Yala sofa was inspired by watching how local aboriginal people engage and enjoy each other's company whilst digging up the Yala bush potato, a rich source of bush food for the people living in the harsh central desert of Australia. The social opportunities afforded by the activity are celebratory and indicated by the plant's flowering. After leaving the Yala sofa, remnant warmth of the body activates images of glowing Ipomoea flowers as a reminder of intimacy and comfort. They become a symbol for empathy reflecting a connectedness with the Pintupi people who share similar company.