This project explores the nature of space and place and will examine the concept of a bodily connection with the land through sketch prototyping of stretch sensors in sculptural textile forms. The resulting series of woven pieces for the body will be remotely connected to three-dimensional forms in the Scottish landscape, combining information from each to create unique low frequency feedback to be experienced by the wearer.

this project is a collaboration between many people from different disciplines, most of them working at Nottingham Trent University

Philip Breedon in Product Design and Amanda Briggs-Goode in Textiles head the project with Sarah Kettley

Martha Glazzard developed the knit stretch sensors, above

Tina Downes made the embroidered sample, right

Karen Harrigan works across the project on garment fit

Nigel Marshall is working on woven structures

the team began working together in 2008 when Sarah joined them as Technical Textiles Research Fellow, and initially developed ideas around the Merlin stretch sensor, recently branching into making our own stretch sensors

Aeolia is supported through an alt-w

R&D award from New Media Scotland

NTU Technical Textiles outputs:

Papers/Posters:

S Kettley, Parallels in the Evolution of Craft and Authenticity, Crafticulation & Education:

International Conference of Craft Science and Craft Education, University of Helsinki 24−26 September 2008

P J Breedon, A Briggs-Goode, S Kettley & B Sparkes, Design Innovation: sensors and fabrication, 86th Textile Institute World Conference, Hong Kong, 18th – 21st November 2008.

P J Breedon, A Briggs-Goode, S Kettley & B Sparkes , Textiles, Shape and Sensor: Integration of Textile Design and Technology , 2nd International Scientific Conference, 'Textiles of the Future', Kortrijk, Belgium, 13 – 15th , November 2008.

S Kettley, P J Breedon & A Briggs-Goode , HUG – a reactive textile product for affective care environments, 15th International Symposium on Electronic Art, 23 August - 1 September, 2009, Northern Ireland.

P J Breedon, A Briggs-Goode & S Kettley, Leading Technical Textiles Research, Integration of a stretch sensor into woven and knitted structures, Another Side of Fashion, The Fashion for Smart Materials, Science Museum, London, 19th September, 2008.

In preparation:

S Kettley, Reflective Authenticity for Design, International Conference on Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces, DPPI09, 13- 16 October 2009, Compiegne University of Technology, Compiegne, France

P J Breedon, P Marsh & L Arthur, Technology for Design Students: Culture, Challenges and Solutions, AIEDAM ( Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing), Design Pedagogy: Representations and processes, Special issue, Summer 2010, Vol 24, No.3 .

Exhibitions & Demonstrations:

S Kettley, P J Breedon & A Briggs-Goode , HUG – a reactive textile product for affective care environments, 15th International Symposium on Electronic Art, 26 - 29 August, 2009, Northern Ireland.

S Kettley, P Breedon, A Briggs-Goode with T Downes, K Harrigan, M Glazzard & N Marshall,  Aeolia: New Media Scotland 10th Anniversary Celebration, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, 2nd July 2009

S Kettley, P Breedon, A Briggs-Goode with T Downes, K Harrigan, M Glazzard & N Marshall,  Aeolia: New Media Scotland Alt-w group exhibition, InSpace, Informatics Forum, Edinburgh University, part of the Art Festival, 5 August – 5 September 2009

S Kettley, P Breedon, A Briggs-Goode, Migration: Netherlands Institute for Media Art wearables workshop, Amsterdam, 14 – 20 July 2009

Yann Seznec

getting Arduino values into Max and out as MIDI

narrow stretch sensor

wide stretch sensor

Yann was very excited abut the potential of this and is building us a Max patch for demo purposes at InSpace at the end of the month. The kind of reaction the sensor effects in the music (the envelope) can be altered by tweaking values in the code. These movies just demo the principle for now. Suddenly, the issues with randomness and lack of return to original values appear to be opportunities. The sensors are not simple or linear but require learning and a bit of subtlety from the user. Yann can also program in dynamic calibration to take into account the warm up, or leap in base value the sensors all seem to exhibit.

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