Round Table »Self-Shaping Textiles at the Intersection of Fashion, Architecture and Technology«

The Round Table »Self-Shaping Textiles at the Intersection of Fashion, Architecture and Technology« kicked off a new format series accompanying the exhibition »Design Lab #13: Material Legacies« at Kunstgewerbemuseum.

The Round Tables represent each of the exhibiting project in a moderated dialogue with guests from different disciplines. The format brings a variety of perspectives to the exhibited works, its material legacies and entangled discourses and invites the public to engage.

On November 24th Lorenzo Guiducci and Agata Kycia discussed their work with the architect Giovanni Betti and the fashion sociologist Antonella Giannone.

»Self-Shaping Textiles« focuses on creating meter-scale surface structures by transforming 2D surfaces into 3D wrinkled structures. Inspired by morphogenetic processes in plant leaves, it proposes using 3D printing on pre-stretched textiles as an alternative, material based form-finding technique to obtain meter-scale surface structures for architectural elements such as facade panels and shading elements. In particular, it explores the design space of non-intersecting lines that self-organize into visually complex macroscopic patterns and surface textures upon fabric tension relaxation. The large format prints featured are both an opportunity to establish a dialogue with the spectator while constituting »fieldwork« experiments to test the effect of additional external conditions.