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Test bed project
Oscar Tomico— 1979 o. tomico @ tue. nl
. Assistant professor at TU / e,
Interaction Research, Designing Quality
project members
Bas van Abel Waag Society Maaike Kleinsmann TU Delft Daniëlle Arets Design Isjah Koppejan Waag Society
Academy Eindhoven
Frank Kresin Waag Society Jesse Asjes TextielMuseum Kristi Kuusk TU / e Michelle Baggerman Design Mike de Lange Edelgroup
Academy Eindhoven
Geert Langereis TU / e Martijn ten Bhömer TU / e Christine de Lille TU Delft Liesbeth Bonekamp Project Léon Meertens Johan
Management Creative Industries van den Acker Textielfabriek BV Frank Boon Metatronics Bas Raijmakers STBY, Eliza Bottenberg Saxion Design Academy Eindhoven
University of Applied Sciences Karla Spiluttini V2 _ Ger Brinks Saxion University Frank Teurlings Audax
of Applied Sciences
Textiel Museum Guido van Gageldonk Marina Toeters Saxion University
Unit040 Ontwerp BV of Applied Sciences, By-wire. net Alexander Groenewege Alexander Oscar Tomico TU / e
Groenewege Industrial Design Malou Verheijen De Wever Caroline Hummels TU / e Hebe Verstappen TextielMuseum Ben Janssen De Wever Simone de Waart TU / e Loet van Kimmenade Stephan Wensveen SPIRE
Contactgroep Textiel
Wouter Widdershoven
Esther Klaaijsen De Wever Unit040 Ontwerp BV Jef Wintermans Modint Piem Wirtz V2 _
An inspirational test bed enables textile developers to understand the multi-disciplinary opportunities and challenges of creating Smart Textile Product Service Systems.
Designing and Selling ' Soft Product '— ' Valuable Service ' systems( Smart Textile Services) is about the development of successful methods, platforms, guiding principles and the business models required to understand the multidisciplinary opportunities and challenges of creating Smart Textile Product Service Systems. Innovation in the form of the combination of soft materials with high technology has led to the development of so-called Smart Textiles. These are of strategic importance for the European textile industry to sustain their competitive edge and to counter threats from low-labour cost producers. Smart Textiles can conduct light, heat or currents; i. e. the textile becomes an interactive product and can now become part of larger product service systems( PSS). This opens up a vast field of opportunities for textile developers and product and service designers to combine their disciplines in the application areas of well being and life style. To develop these complex PSS solutions, manufacturers need to move away from their current fragmented, slow or non-existent knowledge exchange methods and team up with relevant partners. Initial investment in this field has led to the design and development of an inspirational test-bed, called‘ Wearable Senses’ at TU / e.
Project partners
p20
Making opportunities tangible p41
knitting things together