2022 E-Textile Publications Character

2023 Soft Energy Box
Dutch Design Week,
Fashion Tech Farm, Eindhoven

With the Soft Energy Box no small batteries needed anymore . Produce this energy yourself. Compare your own power to the power human beings are consuming "normally". Apply the possibilities in "Smart Textiles", where small amounts of energy are needed for a short time.

The Soft Energy box contains carefully selected items to produce, experience, and experiment with "soft energy" that you can generate yourself. Inside the box are three modified handcranks of different types, even one with a solar cell. Some with an internal battery, one without. Added is a measuring device for the generated energy, and different components for doing experiments with the energy you generated, like LED's and a programmed microcontroller.

Coming with the Soft Energy Box is a booklet describing the components and the experiments you can do with the hand cranks, the measuring device and the components. Format A6 - 54 pages, with plenty of pictures and descriptions of experiments.

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2022 InterActive Publication Textiles
Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven

The Five Character

And Five askes herself....:
Is fashion a code? -
A code is still not fashion! Is then....maybe my dress a text? Is my text a dress?

Garments and Publications
Garments and Interactivity

A critic remarks:
A text is to be read as a story.
A story cannot be overseen like an image.
The characteristic of a story is that it is hidden in front of the reading point.
This goes for academic texts as well as for literary texts.

And the critical voice continues:
Putting a text on garments is making an image of the text.
It is un-story-ing the text.
What is left is a text-ure.
It cannot be seen as a text anymore - so it is not a publication.

But then Five replies:
That is why we need interactivity.
This means there is still a local experience point from which the future is hidden.

Will this convince the critical inner voice?