STS project— CRISP Magazine # 1
An inspirational test bed enables textile developers to understand the multi-disciplinary opportunities and challenges of creating Smart Textile Product Service Systems.
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The textile companies that remain in the Netherlands are struggling to stay profitable: competition, high technological know-how and a culture of cost-focused SME companies makes it difficult for this industry to collaborate and combine their strengths. Although there are many interesting smart textile concepts, we have seen few relevant examples that are producible and valuable for our society: the‘ killer application’ has not been found. That is why it is important that multi-disciplinary parties teamup during the ideation process to come up with innovative solutions. In the Smart Textile Services project, we are exploring new applications for smart textiles and stakeholder adoption. We try to create shared ownership of the ideas and solutions through collaboration and engagement in workshops where we invite people from a variety of disciplines: fashion designers, interaction
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Crossing Boundaries
Crisp Magazine # 1
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The Smart Textile Services project uses prototypes as boundary objects to collaborate with the project partners. Lilian Henze is building a framework to map all interactions between partners in PSS development and the use of boundary objects to support these interactions.