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Reactive architecture, augmented textiles, domotics and soft architecture fabrication: On electronic and reactive textiles in domestic contexts

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posted on 2019-04-01, 12:21 authored by Tincuta HeinzelTincuta Heinzel
The present paper interrogates the status and the role of electronic and reactive textiles in domestic contexts. After a preliminary incursion into the modern definition of home and homing, the paper addresses the changes that took place in the domestic space due to the development of digital and communication technologies. Defined as a “sensing home,” as a “communicating domestic space,” smart homes are challenging the traditional understanding of home, defined in terms of intimacy and privacy. In this context, electronic and reactive textiles are asked to overcome the low acceptance of smart homes, through their technical, sensorial, and cultural dimensions. The paper highlights some of the pros and cons in accommodating the latest technological advances in the field of textiles, analyses the way physical computing allows textiles to transform into domotics (robots for domestic environments), presents some of the latest developments on soft architecture fabrication and argues in favor of a much more critical approach to the development of sensors and actuators in textile objects.

History

School

  • The Arts, English and Drama

Department

  • Arts

Published in

TEXTILE

Volume

16

Issue

1

Pages

34 - 61

Citation

HEINZEL, T., 2018. Reactive architecture, augmented textiles, domotics and soft architecture fabrication: On electronic and reactive textiles in domestic contexts. Textile, 16(1), pp. 34 - 61

Publisher

© Taylor and Francis

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2017-07-21

Publication date

2018

Notes

This paper is in closed access.

ISSN

1475-9756

eISSN

1751-8350

Language

  • en