Two hands emerge from the dress and embrace it. One, open on the belly, soothes; the other grips the back and seizes the silk. Comfort and desire, evoked by the memory of a loving gesture.
But the hand is no longer flesh. It is printed in sinuous, interlacing threads, generated by the machine; tenderness now passes through technology, and some of its warmth is lost along the way.
Touch becomes structure: programmed and printed geometries, studied for their softness against the body, try to recover what the hand knew without learning. A memory of the gesture remains, but at a distance.
What remains is the desire to comfort, as making drifts away from the hand.
Deux mains émergent de la robe et l’enlacent. L’une, ouverte sur le ventre, apaise ; l’autre empoigne le dos et saisit la soie. Le réconfort et le désir, évoqués par la mémoire du geste amoureux.
Mais la main n’est plus chair. Elle est imprimée en fils sinueux entrecroisés, générée par la machine ; la tendresse passe désormais par la technologie, et un peu de sa chaleur se perd en chemin.
Le toucher se fait structure : des géométries programmées et imprimées, étudiées pour leur douceur contre le corps, tentent de retrouver ce que la main savait sans apprendre. La mémoire du geste demeure, mais à distance.
Reste le désir de réconforter, à mesure que le faire s’éloigne de la main.
tactileDress is a draped dress with an intricate combination of multiple sheets of silk fabric and 3D printed geometries in rigid plastic fibers.
tactileDress was exhibited simultaneously at the Dutch Design Week (DDW) in Eindhoven, Netherlands and as part of the exhibition Exploration en impression 3D, in Quebec City, Canada:
DDW – Design United, Klokgebouw Hall 3, stand 3.16,
Eindhoven, Netherlands,
from 19th to 27th October 2019.
Exploration en impression 3D, Maison Hamel-Bruneau,
Quebec City, Canada,
from 25th September to 15th December 2019.
Co-creation: Danielle Martin, Zjenja Doubrovski, Dolores Hilhorst.
tactileDress is a collaboration between researchers from Fashion in The Creative School at Toronto Metropolitan University and Applied Lab in the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at Delft University of Technology.
https://www.ryerson.ca/fcad/news/2019/11/fashion-faculty-showcases-at-dutch-design-week/
https://www.tudelft.nl/2019/io/oktober/de-toekomstvisies-van-delft-op-dutch-design-week/
danielle martin 