12/2017 - 11/2020
Adaptex
Development of a textile sun protection system with shape memory alloys for use in adaptive surfaces in an architectural context. Smart materials are already being used in important industrial sectors...
Funded Projects
smart³
03/2017 - 02/2020
Sound Adapt
Adaptive surface modules for variable room acoustics The R&D project Sound Adapt deals with the development of a kinetic surface, which can influence the acoustic parameters within buildings in a fast...
10/2016 - 01/2019
smart materials satellites
What are smart materials? What makes a material smart? How can complex scientific topics be translated using methods from art and design? How can technological knowledge be made tangible and visible to a broad...
12/2014 - 5/2016
Smart Tools For Smart Design (ST4SD)
The research project within the framework of the BMBF-funded research cluster smart3 aimed to enable innovative cooperation between designers and scientists in order to encourage and facilitate the development of design concepts and prototypes...
01/2014 – 11/2014
Start Smart
the strategy phase of smart³ where a shared road map for the heterogeneous research consortium was determined. Project partners: Fraunhofer-Institut IWU, Dresden, Fraunhofer-Institut IAP, Potsdam-Golm, Fraunhofer-Institut IKTS, Dresden, Kunsthochschule Burg Giebichenstein,...
futureTEX
06/2019 - 11/2021
TheraTex
Development of an technological platform to intergrate sensory and actory functions into an textile, to support the therapy of people with hemiplegia. The transdisciplinary research-project „TheraTex“ deals with the development of an e-textile to intergrate sensory and...
06/2017 - 05/2020
Textile Prototyping Lab
The Textile Prototyping Lab (TPL) is a research project of five organisations from the fields of textile, electronics research, design, and economy. It includes the design, installation, and testing of a textile prototyping...
DiGiTal
01/2018 - 12/2020
Digital Materials
The practice-based research project Digital Materials examines possibilities to make digital processes directly operative and tangible in physical materials and is located in the interdisciplinary field of Active Matter. Conception,...