Biotech and Digitalisation

¶      ZYSE.me - Custom-sized clothing, on demand -

        https://www.zyse.me/
" ZYSE™ is an AI technology platform that offers consumers unique products, and empowers fashion brands to sell and produce personalized clothing on demand.

Together with innovative brands and manufacturers we are reinventing the fashion value chain, leading the path to a sustainable future of fashion. "






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¶      Solemaker - A platform for creating a new way to think about shoes -

        https://arcintexetn.com/2016/11/01/solemaker/     https://solemaker.io/ deprecated ???
" Starting from a scan, the wearers information is encoded into the online design software. The wearer chooses from a parametric shoe model designed by one of today’s top young shoe designer.
The generative shoe software brings the scan along with sensor data from the user to algorithmically create a shoe for the specific wearer. This shoe is ultra personalised to the wearer using parameters such as foot shape, pressure density and kinetic movement. 
The shoe is then materialised using digital manufacturing techniques and a wearable sensing system is added to the shoe. A profile of expected use is created for the wearer based upon need and style. As the shoe is worn, a wearable sensing system periodically activates to measure use and movement. At the end of life, the shoe is sent back so that the materials and sensor can be recycled up to twenty times. "







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¶      HILO

        https://www.studiohilo.com/
" HILO is a platform to challenge the process of yarn production in the same way 3D printers are revolutionising manufacturing.
At the core of HILO is a spinning machine for local production and e-textile research which enables the user to determine properties of a textile from the very beginning of its production process: the yarn spinning. Through a friendly software interface users can design and produce their own yarn in a efficient, individualised and sustainable way. "






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¶      Air Guru - health care, sustainability, comfort, technology, social impact -

        https://network.wearsustain.eu/actors/AWGkdc6B5CMOeXhOH_wa#
" The first Air Guru project is the realization of a filtering scarf made by textile waste, transformed through nanotechnologies in a filtering textile. 
Our prototype combines technology and design to create a new product willing to support human beings in protecting their respiratory systems from pollution. As of high-end techniques, people not only will want to use it as a functional garment but also as a fashionable accessory.  

The Air Guru business project is designed to develop in a sustainable way and to reach Equilibrium. Its business model comes from the social innovation combining the principles of Circular Economy, Social Responsibility, the reuse-reduce-recycle rule, the triple and quadruple bottom-line approach. Wherever there is textile waste Air Guru can constitute branches working locally and sensitizing/educating customers toward responsible consumption. Economic sustainability has been an asset in planning Air Guru development. We base our business development on zero cost raw material, on already existing technologies provided by a business partner, a marketing strategy based on social responsibility, innovation and health protection. 

still existing ?




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¶      Biofabricate, founded in 2013 by pioneer Suzanne Lee

            https://www.biofabricate.co/
            https://www.gameplan-a.com/2016/12/suzanne-lee-biofabricate-growing-better-future/

   




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¶      Futurecraft by Adidas - Biofabric shoe -

            https://www.adidas.fr/futurecraft 

" Bacteria is being used as the factories to produce silk biopolymers which are then purified and spun into yarn for the upper of the adidas shoe. 
So, biofabrication enables us to commercially produce new materials created with the building blocks of nature but designed and engineered to have programmable performance properties, all produced in a far more resource-efficient way which is potentially a huge win for the planet. "






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¶      Mycotex by NEFFA

        https://neffa.nl/portfolio/mycotex-prototype
" We live in a world of Fast Fashion and Disposable clothing and most people think that is a disaster. They are working on recycling and circular fashion. So they are trying to change the behaviour of 7 billion people, which is a very difficult task. NEFFA thinks Fast Fashion and Disposable clothing represents an incredible opportunity. We have an entire generation of people who now expect to own a garment for a year, maybe two, before disposing it and buying something new. With the right type of materials they can be custom-designed to meet that life cycle. We have the potential to serve that market and to do so in a sustainable way. We need solutions that respond to the reality that we live in. 

MycoTEX is a 100% biodegradable material based on mycelium, the root of mushrooms.
We have developed a technology and technique to create a sustainable fabric. We made a proof-of-concept with the material and the 3D modelling process and developed a catwalk ready prototype for the Dutch Sustainable Fashion Week. With this we generated a lot of buzz and excitement all over the world, not only in the science and fashion industry, but also amongst consumers. "

  

    Winner of Global Change Award, an innovation challenge by H&M consious foundation > video




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¶      Future Flora by Giulia Tomasello

        https://gitomasello.com/Future-Flora
" The human body is composed for the 90% of different microorganisms, most of which are beneficial to their host. 
Microbes as bacteria, fungi and viruses are part of our skin flora, covering both the inside and the outer surface of our body. Even though invisible to our eyes, our microflora has a symbiotic relationship with the interface between our body and the environment - our skin. 

Flora aims to incentive this symbiotic relationship that raises the beneficial presence of microbes and bacteria in the human body. This proposal uses techniques of microencapsulation of targeted bacteria in a non-woven fabric making it possible to wear the probiotics that keep our body healthy. Creating scaffolds for the exponential bacterial growth in appropriate areas of the body, our clothes and accessories become the ecosystem that balance and support our skin flora. "
  





    Winner of Starts Prize 2018: Grand Prize – Artistic Exploration
    Awarded for artistic exploration and art works where appropriation by the arts has a strong potential to influence or alter the use, deployment or perception of technology.




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¶      Bioshades at TextileLab Amsterdam - Waag - dyeing with bacteria
        https://fabtextiles.org/tag/bacteria-textile-dyeing/
        https://labs.tcbl.eu/projects/2

" Could dyeing with bacteria be an alternative to chemical dyes? With BioShades we explore the potential of dyeing with bacteria as a less harmful alternative?
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We explore new ways to design, make, and work together and inventing new business models to open up new markets. "






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¶      Biogarmentry
        https://www.madisonsinnovative.com/blog/2018/10/31/biogarmentry

" Living, photosynthesizing, and compostable textiles. intersection of design+biology to envision possibilities for future of textiles. "



also https://www.instagram.com/biogarmentry/




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¶      Svenja Keune - on textile farming: seeds as material for textile design -

   

Abstract: Presently, designing with living systems such as insects, fungi and bacteria has become an area of extended interest, proposing collaborative processes of designing and manufacturing - as a solution for symbiotic ways of living. On the scale of the interior, modern systems for interior gardening, combining both functional, e.g., food supply, purifying the air, and aesthetic values, experience exceptional popularity, ensuring a complementary perspective on horticultural landscapes indoors. As a result, the spaces where people live and crops grow increasingly intersect and therefore open up for developments that bridge both areas and where aesthetic perspectives become equally important. However, modern indoor gardening systems are shaped by commercial horticultural practices, bringing reservoirs such as buckets, tubs or tanks, mostly built of plastic, into the homes. Textile Farming aims to explore alternative forms of plant organisation by blending seeds and textile structures into a hybrid material for textile interior scenarios. Consequently the materials’ performative capacity becomes part of the textile design process. A foundational part are forms of human management, e.g. activation of the seeds, maintenance of the plants, interaction with the hybrid textile structures within and beyond interiors, that leads to experiences and expressions. By practice based design research and through a series of design examples that explore the transformative potential of seeds in textile structures, alternative forms of plant organisation and methods for the textile design process lead to scenarios that propose alternatives to how we live with and organise plants today.

_her experimental tiny- and green houses!

 




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¶      CHT & HACKBASES

        https://totalism.org/
"""
This hackbase is an infrastructure project designing and deploying a free living habitat. 
A recipe for, and an actual place, where you can live-in for almost free, any time you want, and organise a new and completely different lifestyle around.

Hackbases are live-in hackerspaces, the critically missing infrastructure to enable full-time vanguard lifestyles for technologists, theorists, artists, activists, ... - for hackers.
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This hackbase began as "Cyberhippietotalism" or "CHT#1" in 2011. After 3 years as a rented house, the second version of the base restarted in November 2014, as an experimental off-grid habitat research initiative, scheming to buy first plot of land and settle in the same area: North of Lanzarote, Canary Islands. A serie of experimental living situation/camps have been performed since the 2014/2015 season. "











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¶      La Mère - performance by the Harvesting group at Etextile Summercamp 2016 -

        http://etextile-summercamp.org/2016/harvesting-textile/
" Over the period of 4 days we developed samples of new materials combining textile techniques, technology and nature. 
We grew crystals, cooked bioplastics with maizena and/or agar with food colouring. We crushed eggshells and mixed them with glow in the dark pigments. We made bioplastics from banana peels. We made aquafaba meringues with LEDs. We made paper with beetroot peels and grass. We made weavings from seeds and knitted fabric and did crochet with bamboo and wool. We wove seaweed and grass into fabrics. We made all kinds of kombuchas with electronics and dyes. Kombucha was woven, knitted, printed and embroidered. We screenprinted fabrics with onions, banana and carrots. We made soft robotics with nitinol and we foraged big fungi. "

 


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¶      Human Nature - performance by Kobakant and members of the Nature’s Wearables Node at Pif camp 2017 -
        http://www.kobakant.at/?p=1107
" Human Nature is a ritual, a persistent conversation between what we perceive ourselves to be and where we feel we belong. 
Technology is part of us, the result of our desire to shape the environments we live in. 
With this ritual we try to resolve our struggle between our love for technology while at the same time wanting to enjoy nature without distroying it or abusing it. "

   


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¶      Cyborganics by Raune Frankjaer - Sympoietic Technology -
        http://frankjaer.de/cyborganics/
        http://pure.au.dk/portal/da/persons/id(1c5296bf-db78-45b6-afa3-f2c7777cd41a).html

" The Cyborganics Project is a weird – and wonderful – creature. 

The Cyborganic is a fantasy, a design fiction, living in a world where technology is not cold, hard, and dead, but warm, soft and alive. 

A human-machine-nature hybrid of organic augmentation. A temporal assemblage, where old wisdom and future vision can meet. 

Human and nonhuman. 
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The Bamboo Whisper is a sympoetic device. It lets us experience otherness of being. "



    > video




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