Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Found and Lost

Some notes from last years conference 'Interrogating Fashion' found
and a lost thread pulled back.

http://www.interrogatingfashion.org/web/serv/if/web/pages/home/

index.html

2 stand out speakers for me from the event:
Sarah Kettley, PhD Researcher, Napier University, Edinburgh,
PhD Research in electronically mediated socially interactive
networked jewellery; craft as a design methodology
http://www.dcs.napier.ac.uk/~cs179/sarah_kettley/

- I found now further links to this project and 'Speckled Computing'
or SpeckNet - a Ubicomp / mesh type system for sensors or actuators
http://www.specknet.org/
(relates to "An Internet of Things'')http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

An_internet_of_things

Janne Kyttanen (NL) Freedom of Creation;
Rapid prototype machine crafted products - in this case 3D laser
sintered printing technology used to create a chain mail like
'fabric' in the form of a bag.
- In fact further research shows that they are manufactured by
Materialise that's also producing a range of similar products.
http://www.materialise.com/MADE/main_ENG.html

It looks like there will be some news of phase 2 project as part of
the Design for the 21st Century initiative.
http://www.design21.dundee.ac.uk

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