Digital fabrication and craftsmanship is entering into a new phase with increasing levels of
complexity and a renewed desire for composites and cross-material experimentation …

To promote a resilient user-product relationship for sustainable fashion, design methods for
emotional durability are required. Digitally transformable fashion design can be seen as a …

Digital fabrication machines enable the creation of a wide range of artifacts and materials. In
the process of exploring the possibilities within these digital modes of creation, many …

Textile and fashion designers are increasingly interested in integrating interactive
technologies into their practice. However, traditional design education typically lacks support …

Materially driven research can often feel like a long series of failed experiments, which ends
with us telling only the story of how we succeeded. We propose engaging with the making …

The creation of e-textile swatches is a common practice for documenting material
experiments, sharing techniques with other practitioners, and for concept ideation. The …

As DIS researchers increasingly describe design as an emergent and material engaged
practice, many are embracing different approaches to design documentation that capture the …

The interaction design research community continues to benefit from material-focused
approaches, and from the diversity of materials under investigation. One category of such …

Eco-home makers are permaculturists, artists and environmentalists who actively engage
with the environment and nature in order to build self-made, sustainable homes. Through …

Emerging technologies enable fluid and versatile material forms of fashionable wearables
and e-textiles, with experts in engineering and material science proposing numerous …