At this year’s virtual Dutch Design Week, exciting projects from the fields of textile and surface design and product design, created at the weissensee kunsthochschule berlin, will be presented. The digital exhibition runs from 17.10.-25.10.2020.
Research projects from DXM – Design and Experimental Materials Research
All Good(s) – Presented by Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
The semester project Future Textiles – Digital Crafts focuses on the combination of traditional textile techniques and the potential of ‚digital fabrication‘.
Within this context, the use of digital tools were examined as an extension of human manual skills and their role in a contemporary understanding of craft, design and technology was explored. Especially the combination of digitally controlled processes (e.g. computer-controlled weaving and knitting, parametric modeling and 3D printing or e-textiles) in combination with current material research leads to a whole spectrum of new possibilities in the field of textiles and flexible surface systems.
The semester project was conducted within the research project Textile Prototyping Lab.
Works from the semester project Scaling Nature (1): Wrinkles were exhibited at the Domotex in Hannover. The Domotex is a trade fair for floor coverings, which deals with connections to applied research, thus giving artists, start-ups and students the opportunity to present themselves in the context of the “NuThinkers” Framing Trends.
A report on the research unit DXM – Design and Experimental Material Research of the Textile and Surface Design Department at weißensee kunsthochschule berlin in merlin | smart³ magazine, issue No. 3 | 2019.
A report on the R&D project SoundAdapt in smart³ magazine, issue No. 3 | 2019. This research project deals with the development of a kinetically variable surface that can influence the acoustic parameters within built environments in a fast and precise way. By integrating shape memory alloys, sensors and acoustically effective materials within the surface structure, an adaptive and self-contained overall system is to be created. This will be easily integrated into existing room structures enabling an acoustically variable use of space in an energy- and space-saving way.
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus, the weißensee kunsthochschule berlin was invited to present projects from the fields of textiles and surface design and product design as part of the Bühne TOTAL festival. Seven works from the two semester projects GreenDesign 8.0 – Circular City Mapping Berlin’s Material Streams and Βιος λόγος (Bios Logos) were exhibited at the Bauhaus Dessau from 11 – 15 September 2019.
In the exhibition Bezugsstoffe (Cover Fabrics) the participating artists examine textiles for their qualities as visual and haptic indicators of changes in art, culture, society and technology. Seven positions are presented in installations and objects, questioning familiar notions of the use, production, expansion and representation of textile carriers of meaning.
Participating artists: Veronika Aumann, Sabrina Bosshard / Stefanie Kägi, Nadine Göpfert, Ebba Fransén Waldhör / Marei Rei, Adriana Quaiser / Theresa Kanz, Selina Reiterer und Christine Katscher / Ronja Svaneborg
Talk: Veronika Aumann: Self Active Materials, 6.June 2019, 7pm
At Techtextil 2019 DXM research project Textile Prototyping Lab is showing one of their latest developments for Stefan Diez’ PLUSMINUS lighting system for Vibia: a light rail formed of a soft, conductive textile belt that can incorporate a variety of bulbs for different lighting effects. The functionality of the belt and a variety of weaving designs were developed by TPL.
With her practice-based research project Digital Materials, Veronika Aumann is accepted as PhD candidate at the PhDArts program in January 2019. PhDArts is an international doctoral program in art and design at the Leiden University Academy of Creative and Performing Arts and the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague.
Exhibition at Wasserschloss Klaffenbach
The exhibition „Neue Textile Welten“ at Wasserschloss Klaffenbach is showing the „potentials of technical and intelligent textiles + smart materials“. Together with works by e.g. Bauerfeind AG, KARL MAYER Technische Textilien GmbH, warmX GmbH, Norafin Industries GmbH, Sächsisches Textilforschungsinstitut e.V. (STFI), Textilforschungsinstitut Thüringen Vogtland e.V. Greiz (TITV e.G.), TU Chemnitz and Design Research Lab der UdK Berlin weißensee kunsthochschule berlin and DXM are presenting five student projects and the research projects ‘Textile Prototyping Lab’ and ‘Digitale Materialien’.
https://www.c3-chemnitz.de/de/Wasserschloss-Klaffenbach-Gestaltung-Handwerk-Ausstellungen_1323.html
For the “Rundgang 2018”, the annual summer exhibition, the visitors were guided “hands-on” through the exhibition in the research space and informed about the different research projects. The visitors were able to experience and understand self-forming 3D textiles, experiments on shape-change materials and surfaces with reactive structures. The visitors were also able to get directly involved in textile prototyping at the Jacquard loom or body-learning at the nine stops of the fitness trail Shape Change Aerobic.
The series Autorials, a part of the research project Digital Materials by Veronika Aumann was exhibited at the Dutch Design Week in October 2018 as part of the presentation of the design collective Beyond Material.
Autorials is a series on (fictitious) responsive materials that can change shape, colour, volume, structure and transparency. By investigating various material explorations and their conversion into garments, possible future interaction figures between human, machine and material are sketched. The red example is titled Liquid Light. Depending on the physical movement (shaking) of the material, the liquid inside intensifies its coloured luminosity. The silver one is titled Malloon. Malloon is a material-machine that can automatically changes its shape and volume through inflating and deflating.
Lecture Julia Wolf (DXM) and Lilo Viehweg (Bauhaus Dessau Foundation) at the conference of the German Society for Design Theory and Research, HfG Karlsruhe Material als Experiment – Transdisciplinary Science Communication with the Methods of Design – What contribution can design methods make to the translation of complex, technology-based knowledge and what role do they play in the discourse on current material developments?
The accompanying publication with a paper by J. Wolf and L. Viehweg will be published in autumn 2019.
As part of the smart materials satellites research project, four workshops on Hearing, Feeling, Smelling, Tasting Material were held at Werkbundarchiv – Museum of Things in Berlin in cooperation with the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation. Lead: Julia Wolf (DXM), Lilo Viehweg (Bauhaus Dessau Foundation)
https://www.museumderdinge.org/events-education/sensing-materials-lab
In cooperation with the Department of Interaction Design of the Zurich University of the Arts (Clemens Winkler, Luke Franzke), the Material Archive ZHdK (Franziska Müller-Reissmann) and the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation (Lilo Viehweg), a workshop and exhibition on the subject of materials of the future was held together with students. As part of the ZHdK Highlights, “Material as Experiment | Past Present Future” was shown, including student works from weißensee.