FAR - Fashion und Robotics

The PEEK project "FAR - Fashion and Robotics" brings together three areas that have never worked together in a creative context before towards researching new, sustainable fashion design processes: the departments Fashion & Technology and Creative Robotics of the University of Art and Design Linz as well as the Institute for Biomedical Mechatronics at the Johannes Kepler University Linz. The world of fashion is in a phase of transformation. Existing design and production processes are being questioned today and new, sustainable approaches are being sought. The way in which fashion is designed, produced and perceived is changing, thus creating a great potential for systemic change towards sustainability and responsibility. Digital technologies and computer-based design tools enable the design of complex forms for the body, which is difficult to grasp in terms of its complex shape, opening up new production methods. We see an emergence of a new type of fashion which finally enables social and cultural changes. In the past, technological innovations in fashion were mainly based on new materials and new production methods. Today, many more new technologies are available in an ever shorter time frame, which influence and condition each other. In the FAR project, existing technologies such as 3D printers and scanners, fabric simulation and motion capturing technologies are used to develop completely new processes for fashion. In a second step these will be transferred to bio-based materials, using the same machines and methods in very different ways: Machines now support the growth of biomaterials instead of cutting them into shape. FAR will not only produce technical processes and artistic works, but also important visions for new materials, shapes and craftsmanship that will leave a minimum of waste and emissions. The results will be made available through residencies so that designers can build on this research. The results are thus not simply technological advances or artefacts, but catalysts for new design strategies. The project is being implemented by Christiane Luible-Bär (co-director of the "Fashion & Technology" course at the University of Art and Design Linz) and Johannes Braumann (head of the "Creative Robotics" department at the University of Art and Design Linz) together with Werner Baumgartner (head of the Institute for Biomedical Mechatronics at the Johannes Kepler University Linz).

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