Body-centric design disciplines that utilize digitization processes such as fashion are tasked to... more Body-centric design disciplines that utilize digitization processes such as fashion are tasked to engage with theoretical concepts commonly applied in digital-native design disciplines in order to use digital technologies as more than simple tools. Guided by intraaction theory, alternative ontological and hierarchical relations between the body and textiles were explored by digitally translating their movement. An installation was developed to fnd hybrid body-textile expressions using motion-capture sensors and robotic arms. The fndings suggest that technological augmentations of the body and textiles can increasingly be difracted in terms of their apparent physical-material boundaries through movement translation. Movement data functioned as a performative mediator, expanding movement-based expressions from one agent to another. Body-textile hybrids emerged from this process, and shaped each other in a mutual act of becoming, challenging ontological structures of the body and textiles commonly applied in fashion design.
Body-centric design disciplines that utilize digitization processes such as fashion are tasked to... more Body-centric design disciplines that utilize digitization processes such as fashion are tasked to engage with theoretical concepts commonly applied in digital-native design disciplines in order to use digital technologies as more than simple tools. Guided by intraaction theory, alternative ontological and hierarchical relations between the body and textiles were explored by digitally translating their movement. An installation was developed to fnd hybrid body-textile expressions using motion-capture sensors and robotic arms. The fndings suggest that technological augmentations of the body and textiles can increasingly be difracted in terms of their apparent physical-material boundaries through movement translation. Movement data functioned as a performative mediator, expanding movement-based expressions from one agent to another. Body-textile hybrids emerged from this process, and shaped each other in a mutual act of becoming, challenging ontological structures of the body and textiles commonly applied in fashion design.
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