Fabricademy: Week 5: eTextiles & sensors: Assignment 1

Fabricademy: Week 5: eTextiles & sensors: Assignment 1

This class focused on exploring how we can produce soft circuits and sensors, to embed them into garments and wearables, using soft circuits and soft actuators. We will start with an overview of materials, components, tools and projects. Our global tutors were Hannah Pierre Wilson and Mika Satomi who make up KOBAKANT. In this week’s course, […]

Fabricademy Week 3: Circular open source fashion – Modular

Fabricademy Week 3: Circular open source fashion – Modular

This weeks subject of creating a modular pattern is something that I have always thought about using for waste textiles and making them into designs. I really enjoyed transforming the (pineapple) felt fabric, which I also chose for my final experiment, as well as incorporating both the positive and negative cut pattern into useable modular […]

In3dustry & Reshape.io Wearable Technology Awards Barcelona 2017

In3dustry & Reshape.io  Wearable Technology Awards Barcelona 2017

When I received an invite to In3dustry from my fellow Makerversity memeber Paul Sohi (me now being an alumni via Architecture for Humanity UK), all my textile-spidey senses said YES PLEASE! Or, claro que si. Paul works for AutoDesk, the “software company who makes software for people who make things”. He was one of the speakers […]

Fabricademy: Week 2: Digital bodies

Fabricademy: Week 2: Digital bodies

One of the projects which immediately got be hooked on doing the FabTextile course was the fact that we would be building our own mannequins. Not only this but learning how to design them. I’ve really enjoyed catching up on this weeks project! Now I have the basic structure of a mannequin that I will […]

Fabricademy: Week 1: State of the art, project management and documentation

Hello! My name is Zoë Powell and I am a Textile Designer & Maker. I am from London and moved to Barcelona in 2016. I come from a family of artists. My father is English and my mother was from Uruguay. I have lived in the UK, UAE, Peru, Uruguay and now in Barcelona, Spain. […]