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 material (for example changing colour) at a moment where it was not so easy to get all this stuff. Unfortunately I was not present during this workshop session in 2005 – but I decided to have a dig in the archive. Here you see some pictures (click on the spool).
In the summer I’m giving a hand in putting some order in this material library – which enables me to have a good insight in what is available.
It’s a super archive!
