Monthly Archives: August 2009

The material archive of Fo.am

In 2005, Fo.am organized a series of workshops – and one of them was entitled Softwear. I chose the name Softwearables to refer to their work – a kind of attribution. In this workshop series a lot of new materials were looked at: conductive thread and textiles, but also thermochromatic stuff (reacting to heat), UV-sensitive […]

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Bend sew feel read

Bend sew touch feel read was a workshop organized in Okno, with FoAm, Nadine and Constant as partners. This workshop was part of Softwearables and took place in the sunny weekend of the 24th of July. http://www.constantvzw.org/site/Bend-sew-touch-feel-read.html http://okno.be/node/862 http://www.kobakant.at/DIY/?p=1583 http://fo.am/node/1859 http://grig.info/events/bend-sew-touch-feel-read The main topic was making soft sensors, mostly with neoprene, conductive textiles and thread, […]

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