SysTex Student Award 2009_submission_From Science Fiction to Reality: Super Humans, Smart Textiles and Wearable Technologies_Katharine Miles
Images: Pieces from The Shell final major project
The inspiration to study smart textiles and wearable technologies started with Hussein Chalayan’s highly creative fashion pieces, enriched with a wide-ranging scientific and technological knowledge. This talented innovator is among a number of designers who are looking to the future rather than the past and incorporating futuristic technologies into their work, imagining, as designers such as Paco Rabanne and Pierre Cardin did in the 1960s, a transition of this kind of technology from science fiction to reality.
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Prof. Dr. ir. Lieva Van Langenhove, dr.h.c.
Universiteit Gent
Vakgroep Textielkunde
Technologiepark 907
9052 Zwijnaarde
Belgium
tel +32 9 2645419 - fax + 32 9 2645831
mobile: +32 478 257060
URL: http://textiles.ugent.be
Please contact:
Prof. Dr. ir. Lieva Van Langenhove, dr.h.c.
Universiteit Gent
Vakgroep Textielkunde
Technologiepark 907
9052 Zwijnaarde
Belgium
tel +32 9 2645419 - fax + 32 9 2645831
mobile: +32 478 257060
URL: http://textiles.ugent.be
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