Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Wearable/breathable/intelligent
What first caught my interest in wearable/breathable/intelligent is the idea that clothing is architecture. The investigation into a facility of clothing as a protecting facade that responds to the changing needs of the user relative to activity and weather makes a strong argument for why it is so.
Where the project looses my interest is in the way the clothing starts to respond much like architecture and not like clothing. In an effort to vent or remove facade from a space on the users body, the slicker mechanically depends on a pivoting flap (like a window). The article would be more successful if the thread level of the material moved to reveal openings. Imagine if the weave would expand or contract dramatically to provide venting. Any way that inherent properties of cloth material could be responssive rather than incorporating a stratagy of foriegn system would move this project forward.
Where the project looses my interest is in the way the clothing starts to respond much like architecture and not like clothing. In an effort to vent or remove facade from a space on the users body, the slicker mechanically depends on a pivoting flap (like a window). The article would be more successful if the thread level of the material moved to reveal openings. Imagine if the weave would expand or contract dramatically to provide venting. Any way that inherent properties of cloth material could be responssive rather than incorporating a stratagy of foriegn system would move this project forward.
# posted by rvw : 6:21 AM
