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Textile Messages: Dispatches from the World of E-Textiles and Education
Textile Messages focuses on the emerging field of electronic textiles, or e-textiles - computers that can be soft, colorful, approachable, and beautiful. E-textiles are articles of clothing, home furnishings, or architectures that include embedded computational and electronic elements. This book introduces a collection of tools that enable novices - including educators, hobbyists, and youth designers - to create and learn with e-textiles. It then examines how these tools are reshaping technology education - and DIY practices - across the K-16 spectrum, presenting examples of the ways educators, researchers, designers, and young people are employing them to build new technology, new curricula, and new creative communities.
246 pages, ebook
First published May 1, 2013
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January 13, 2015
Textile Messages is a collection of "dispatches” (essays) looking into developments in e-textiles over the past twenty-or-so years, what's new in the world of e-textiles, and how their future (and ours) may look. The first section discusses a variety of kits and tools that are available to all levels of those interested in constructing e-textiles: students, educators, and DIYers of all kinds. Written by current developers, engineers, artists, and designers, they explore the intersection that e-textiles create between health/medicine, science, art, education, etc, even anticipating future applications of these textile hybrids.
Many of these essays opened the doors to the development of workshops focusing on teaching young people how construct e-textiles: their philosophy, their methods, and results--a great resource for someone considering writing a proposal for a similar program.
In between chapters there are examples of fascinating and advanced projects that push the boundaries of how we think of e-textiles and the inspiration/motivation behind their creation (note: not instructions).
My favorite projects:
Sparsh Sari
"Know-it-all" Knitted bag
Bee E-puppets
Many of these essays opened the doors to the development of workshops focusing on teaching young people how construct e-textiles: their philosophy, their methods, and results--a great resource for someone considering writing a proposal for a similar program.
In between chapters there are examples of fascinating and advanced projects that push the boundaries of how we think of e-textiles and the inspiration/motivation behind their creation (note: not instructions).
My favorite projects:
Sparsh Sari
"Know-it-all" Knitted bag
Bee E-puppets
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