kyoto summer school
2018
keywords: sound, textiles, innovation, tradition, silk
A two week summer intensive in Kyoto. Created a series of prototypes experimenting with the intervention of technology with Japanese Chiriman. Final result was a collection of sound sensors that generated sounds from nature when pushed, touched, bent or squished.
The two-week long KYOTO Design Lab Textiles Summer School (TSS 2020) takes place in the Tango Peninsula and in Kyoto. It is an ongoing collaboration with designers, textile engineers and materials scientists from Japan and overseas. The aim is to foster long-term creative and technical collaboration between all parties, gain new insights into how traditional skills and new technologies can be merged and then prototype the ideas. Adjunct Professor Julia Cassim (D- lab) directs the summer school.
The first week offers an unrivalled opportunity for in-depth study, field research and workshops with traditional silk crepe chirimen and experimental textile producers in the Tango Peninsula for that shortlisted participants. Due to limitations of accommodation and transport, priority will be given to international participants.
The second week centres on a 5-day prototyping-based design workshop at Kyoto Institute of Technology centred on the two themes of eTextiles and experimental print surfaces using the advanced digital fabrication and print workshop facilities of D-lab.