Work in progress 2008

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Work In progress 2007

Meixuan Chen
Can intelligent knitted textiles bring more fun to our everyday life? This project investigates the potential use of knitted textiles for interactive lighting products.

Indu Choraria
Co-design: engaging users in the creative process for knitted textiles.

Maria Elena Corchero Martin
The project explores opportunities to design innovative textiles that combine traditional craft and embellishment techniques with the integration of solar cells for a fashion textiles print collection.

Yun Ding
How can the use of new materials and new technology be explored to redesign the concept of a swimsuit?

Dina Elsabahi
Pet Cushion: Can woven textiles exploit principles found within bio-mimetics to produce living animated objects for the home? Looking at organic textures and nature as a muse, this project is about changing perceptions of furniture in the home.

Lucy Fergus
Modular Beauty: Can medical and technical textiles be adapted to design innovative products for the home? A passion for transparent industrial materials and repetitive modular structures has inspired the designer to develop new applications for technical textiles. The final work will propose contemporary modular lighting products and interior surfaces with interactive qualities.

Mark Liu
The project aims at combining the processes of pattern cutting and textile print design to generate an innovative fashion range.

Jessica Martin
Mix and match prints will allow consumers to be creative and experimental with their clothes. They can customise their clothing every time they wear it. Consumers can purchase fewer items of clothing for their wardrobe and reinvent it again and again. The project can contribute to the idea of sustainability cutting down on consumerism, allowing buyers to be creative and not feel the need to buy another garment.

Aeden Mun
This project explores the design of interactive wallpapers that react to the weather forecast.

Lidia Muro
How to create a new relationship between 2D and 3D textiles for innovative fashion concepts?

Neda Niaraki
Can Tyvek® clothing remedy fashion over-consumption? An economy based on the increasing consumption of resources is only temporary since the amount of resources on the planet, without a doubt, is finite. The project proposes a disposable Tyvek® clothing line which aims to fulfil consumers? incessant desire for fashion while reducing resource over-consumption and wastage.

Rebecca Otero
Through an exploration of innovative textile techniques, and smart processes such as using ultra sonic sensors and shape memory alloy, this project aims at designing textile furniture that manifest various rituals and stages of a love relationship.

Marion Piffaut - Transformable Textiles for the body
How can ?time? be used as a design technique to produce interactive textiles and thus prolong the life of a product? This project is concerned with establishing new approaches to design for silk based fabrics, and is kindly sponsored by Denis & Fils S.A.

Heather Smith
What is the future for surface decoration? How can the natural elements be controlled and exploited in order to produce decorative surfaces for exteriors?

Seetal Solanki - Urban Fabrication
How can Textiles challenge the way we interact with the built environment? Seetal is interested in designing second skin for derelict building that would have a life of their own. By exploring wind technologies and textile techniques she proposes to develop outdoor textiles that interact and respond to the weather pattern.

Ninette Van Kamp - No pain, No gain
Throughout the ages, in the West, as well as in various other cultures around the world, women have always been encouraged to achieve an unrealistic state of ?ideal? beauty even in cases where it has been detrimental to their health. Women, it seems, are willing to suffer for beauty. I am interested in conveying this relationship through textiles, looking at seams and mark makings on the body in particular.

Kerri Wallace
This project challenges the potential of wearable display technologies in textile design. The design collection will explore ways to produce motion responsive fabrics for sportswear. The printed textiles will characteristically mimic both animal and human species through the application of smart technologies and printed textiles.

Wendy White
Inspired by research into 'Sensism', this project will explore possibilities to design a contemporary boudoir which challenges each of our senses and contributes to harmonising and balancing our well being.

Veronica Wunderlin
This project explores the notion of the body as a landscape. The textile collection is inspired by a personal photographic project which celebrates lights and the urban landscape. The final fashion collection will incorporate various lighting technologies which will be integrated to traditional print techniques.

Yu Chu Amanda Yuen
Can we use principle of biology as a new methodology to create fashion? This project fantasises on the notion that garments can reproduce themselves and exploits biogenetics as a creative process to design an innovative fashion collection.