Architecural Knitted Surfaces

WGSN reports from the Architectural Knitted Surfaces workshop recently held at Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Tel Aviv, which offered a cutting-edge insight into interactive knitted surfaces.

"The Architectural Knitted Surfaces workshop brought together architects and interior and textile designers to highlight recent developments in intelligent knitting ."

"Designed by Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen and Ayelet Karmon, Listener is a knitted textile membrane that senses and reacts to its surroundings by inflating. Each cell of the fabric can continually increase and decrease in size according to people's proximity."

















"Listener also has its own autonomous relationship to its environment. By integrating conductive fibres knitted directly into the textile, as well as embedding touch-sensors, this composite knitted structure allows the material to sense its own conductivity."

"Similar approaches were developed through conductive flaps and folding systems, playing further with the three-dimensionality of the knitted surface."

Cool!