Touch Me Wallpaper

TOUCH ME WALLPAPER (2003 - ongoing) by Zena Berzina.

HINT: Touch sensitive walls!

"Touch Me Wallpaper is an interactive sensory-appeal textile membrane that changes color in response to environmental or human heat. People are invited to interact with the wallpaper by touching it and crating their own bodily heat patterns, which are temporarily recorded on the wall until they fade away completely."*

*from the book Fashionable Technology by Sabine Seymour.

Fibre Reactive

FIBRE REACTIVE (2004) by Donna Franklin.

HINT: Living garment.

"Fibre Reactive is a unique living garment that attempts to raise debate on the controversial manipulation of living entities into commodities and the use of microbiology as an artistic tool. The Pycnoporus coccineus fungus is cultivated and produces a living colored surface. It is the intentios of the work to challenge the role of garments in commodity culture and to aslo draw attention to our own morality."*

*from the book Fashionable Technology by Sabine Seymour.

Living Light

LIVING LIGHT by David Benjamin and Soo-in Yang: "The Living".

HINT: Permanent outdoor pavilion.

"is a permanent outdoor pavilion in the heart of Seoul with a dynamic skin that glows and blinks in response to both data about air quality and public interest in the environment. The skin of the pavilion is a giant map of Seoul with the 27 neighborhood (gu) boundaries redrawn based on existing air quality sensors of the Korean Ministry of Environment—each shape in this new map encloses the air closest to one of the sensors. Then the map illuminates to become an interactive, environmental building facade. Citizens can enter the pavilion or view it from nearby streets and buildings, and they can text message the building and it will text them back."*

*from www.livinglightseoul.net

ResoNet

RESONET by Mark Francis Tynan & William Hailiang Chen.

HINT: Cascade of light.

"ResoNet visualises the resonant frequencies inherent in the natural environment, via the interaction of the public and surrounding elements detected by a LED net. By using Low-Fi techniques ResoNet creates a cascade of light triggered by the vibrations detected across the structure. ResoNet’s tensile web structure is stretched across a space, like a spider web. A series of vibration sensors & LED circuit components are fixed at key intersections on the tensile network, to detect minute vibrations as a result of human and natural activity. Be it a brush of a hand, or a passing breeze, the energy is converted into light that resonates across the structure, immersing the public in a cascading visual of flashing LED’s."*

*from www.reso-net.org.

Digital Nature

DIGITAL NATURE by Karim Rashid

HINT: Pattering found in nature.

"The designs are: Replicant—a large-scale vertical wire frame pattern that resembles successive joints of an x-rayed leg structure or strong plant stalks that “climb” the height of the wall; Flexous—a pattern that creates topography on walls by referencing a molded wire frame, screen, or wrinkled fabric, which becomes luminous when the line work is lighter than its background; Zenith—zoomorphic masses of vertical strings that rise the height of the wall; Space Warp—avian-influenced patterns superposed with an irregular grid in translucent inks to reveal underprinting; and Rosetta—pairs of bud-like, spiralized forms composed across the wall surface in a serialized design."*

*from www.transmaterial.net

Nani Marquina

Nani Marquina, Barcelona-based designer by TEXTILE DESIGNERS.

HINT: From traditional rug design to new tactile heights.

"Marquina's textured designs are characterized by the striking depth of the materials she uses. Ranging from softly tufted low-pile reliefs to long strands of fluffy wool fibres, her carpets seem ready to embrace the whole body, rather than just cushion the feet. 'Textures are a way of representing the union of two feelings: view and touch'. Many of her textures are inspired by nature and she readily accepts the challenge of recreating the beauty of the natural world in the fibre form."*

*from the book TEXTILE DESIGNERS, at the cutting edge. By Bradley Quinn.