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designers, textile engineers, and service providers. We hope to provoke innovation and collaboration not only in workshops, but also when people return to their company, institute or service.
These workshops are also a great way to explore the technology available. As designers and engineers come together, they start to experiment with the materials and look beyond the traditional approach. Together, they can go beyond the boundaries and explore radically new ideas. In June of last year, we organised a full-day workshop“ Beta textiles, Textile and Code”, which was hosted by Waag Society in their FabLab, an environment where people can rapidly prototype their ideas. In this workshop we were interested to learn who should take the lead in such a project. To reflect the real-world situation, we invited participants to act
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