Welcome to the Science Fashion Boutique
Imagine carrying a science exhibit on you. Not like a businesscard or in a bag - we mean literally wearing it on your body. Welcome to the Science Fashion Boutique!
Fashion means an interplay of garments, accessories, jewellery and bodystyling. As we all love to style, fashion is an ideal vehicle for science issues. Fashion calls upon a number of sciences such as maths for patterns, chemistry for dyeing, biology for fibers, or sociology (think about subcultures and their fashion trends). Contemporary fashion developments like wearable electronics or sports and medicalwear are also examples of science fashion.
Art and Design Education students at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna conducted applied research on that topic in cooperation with the Austrian ScienceCenter-Netzwerk. In our Science Fashion Boutique students will present their ideas of fashion inspired by science. Try out, tinker, discover the science behind each of the pieces, and why not develop them further with the students. You will get inspiration for new exhibits and perhaps for fashionable marketing tools. And who knows - you might also get some “scientific” styling for the Gala Ball.
Facilitator
Research Associate for Strategy and Content
Session speakers
fashion designer, art & design-educator
Walter is leading the project with the Arts student group for one year. He will introduce the project group and talk about the various cooperations established during the project among students, tutors, science centers, museums, scientists, etc.
University of Applied Arts, Vienna
fashion-designer, fashion-school teacher
Monika tried to access fractal geometry through an aesthetic and artistic approach. The sample shall clearly display an area of complex mathematics and be transfered into clothing. Monika will therefore report about her experiences during the project and concentrating on the topic of informal learning.
Uneversity of Applied Arts Vienna
artists and students at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Klaudia Kozma deals since several years with the mathematical anomaly - Mobius strip. She has the Möbius extended with an interface, and she wants to make the endlessness endlessly. All are welcome to playfully deal with mathematics, and to lead a complex thought line.
University of applied arts
student of the University of applied Arts, Vienna. Helene was fascinated by the insects sturdy carapace - which in the end, has the same function as clothing has for humans. Even the material of the insects carapace Chitin, has found at this point its way into the textile industry. During the session everyone is welcomed to get to know these little animals from a different point of view.
University of applied Arts, Vienna
student of the University of applied Arts, Vienna. Martina tried to apply simple circuits, which partly ‚react’ on social interaction, to clothing and therefore encourage discussions about circuits as well as their components and varity of uses – as they always lead to amazement. During the session the participants will be invited to test some samples by wearing them.
Fashion student from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts - School of Design. Currently an ex-change student during the program of Textiles -
Free, Applied and Experimental Artistic Design at the University of Applied Arts - Vienna.
The focus in this project is the human organs which are used to be hidden inside us. The intension is to remind us about what keep us alive. The important objects/forms, which you cannot see but if they was not there we would not be alive. We only see the ”smooth” skin in our everyday life and we are only reminded of our insides if we are sick (hospitals) or watch ”disgusting” operations on tv. But what would happen if the inner organs’ forms/silhuettes came into view from our ”normal” skin - like an incorporation where the inside meets the outside.
University of applied arts Vienna
