Fabricademy Final Project

Fabricademy Final Project

Final Project Overview MetaChair MC :  Bio-Plastic & waste textiles Composite nicotine vape pen material as a working prototype for seating and other fuctions. To view my Weekly Assignments from Fabricademy in the 1st term, click here. To view my the project on which I based my Final project from our Fabricademy Week 10: Implications […]

Fabricademy Final Project – Textile Waste – Sourcing & Collecting

Fabricademy Final Project – Textile Waste – Sourcing & Collecting

Fabricademy Final Project – Main Fabricademy Final Project – Textile Waste –  Processing Textiles Sourcing Waste Textiles from textile suppliers My initial searches for textile waste started with the network I had. I planned to connect to a few local contacts working in Textile Supply & Distribution, whose business is importing and exporting all kinds of […]

Pillow Talk exhibiting at Uniqlo TATE LATES

Pillow Talk exhibiting at Uniqlo TATE LATES

I’m very excited to be part of the next Uniqlo Tate Late! on the 23rd February. My pillow made in 2016, will be shown alongside my mothers’ pillow as well as 58 other brilliant pillow artworks by women artists from the SLWA & the WAL. Uniqlo Tate Late Workshops – we’ll be on Level 2 in the […]

Fabricademy Week 10: Implications and Applications

Fabricademy Week 10: Implications and Applications

A goal of mine for this Fabricademy course was to work on a project which used waste Textiles. This weeks assignment has led me to look into the reason behind my future project, my intentions and how I might be able to achieve it in the short & long term Below is the class ouitlina […]

Fabricademy Week 9: E-Textiles and Wearables 2

Fabricademy Week 9: E-Textiles and Wearables 2

This weeks assignment was to continue developing our initial eTextiles projects started in Week 5 We were given two lectures by tutor Becky Stewart, who is a professor at Queen Mary University of London, an expert on electronics and integrating them into projects. Assignment 1: Create an interactive object; if you are already experienced with coding, focus […]

Fabricademy Week 8: Open Source Hardware – from fibres to fabrics

Fabricademy Week 8: Open Source Hardware – from fibres to fabrics

This class was based upon the open source hardware field and we focused on its potential in the area of textile. Our instructors this week were Mar Canet & Varvara Guljajeva. We looked at how we could enhance out of date machines for making textiles and how we might take advantage of fabricating digitally. We […]