ArcInTex ETN · ArcInTex ETN

ArcInTex ETN

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project A fundamental challenge in design research today is to define design programmes that suggest methods for turning current scientific knowledge and technical development into the design of new forms of living providing foundations for a more sustainable way of life. As natural science and engineering science introduce new materials and new technology, there is an increasing need to explore their possibilities and consequences for the design of our future living environments. Ways of living are intrinsic to both architecture and textiles as areas of design; from near-field clothing design, fashion design, and furnishing to far-field interior design and architectural design, from dressing us and our bodies to situating us in a living space: how to relate the near-field and far-field perspectives of design expression is a central issue as we try to use technological innovations to improve our ways of living. Turning scientific knowledge and technical development into design may focus on the functional solutions of given problems, but could also focus on expressional possibilities. It is this focus on expressional possibilities that is the main research theme underlying the ArcInTexETN. As a training network for early stage researchers, in this case doctoral students from year one, the ArcInTexETN aims: - To strengthen the foundations of design for new forms of more sustainable ways of living by connecting architecture, textiles and interaction design in a training network for early stage researchers using textile thinking as a common methodological foundation. - To open up for new reflective foundations of the design for living in an age of technological innovations, by designing for adaptive and responsive environments connecting the scales of the body, the interior and the building. - To form an avant-garde of cross disciplinary trained researchers ready to take on fundamental challenges both in academia and in the private sector building their work practice on new ideas of material thinking and design thinking with emphasis on sensitive design expressions for reflective living. - To contribute to further establish design research at a level similar to that of engineering science in areas of special importance for the design of our future ways of living, which is crucial for academia and private sector collaboration on issues of design. Connecting architecture, textile and fashion design, and interaction design through explorations into the expressional possibilities of modern technology for dressing, furnishing, and building the overall research objective of the ETN is to develop programmes, methods and techniques for the design of adaptive, responsive environments connecting the scales of the body, the interior and the building.

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