Our latest research entitled SELF-SHAPING TEXTILES – A material platform for digitally designed, material-informed surface elements, in collaboration with Dr. Lorenzo Guiducci (Matters of Activity. Image Space Material, Cluster of Excellence at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) has been published at the eCAADe 2020 conference. Full paper […]
Dates: SoSe 2019 Institution: TU Berlin, CHORA: Conscious City Supervision PIV: Agata Kycia (as part of the Design Studio SUPPLY CHAIN URBANISM supervised by prof. Raoul Bunschoten, Moritz Maria Karl and Georg Hubmann) PIV seminar was part of the SUPPLY CHAIN URBANISM design studio: Belt and Road […]
Dates: SoSe 2019 Institution: Weissensee Kunsthochschule Berlin, Textil- und Flächendesign Tutor: Agata Kycia Students: Nayeli Vega, Samira Akhavan, Olga Kuschchyk, Juni Neyenhuys, Luis Magg, Jasmin Sermonet, Jade Mauduit, Luise schumacher, Serafina Baucken, Joanna Czekajlo, Clara Santos Thomas, Maria Paula Barbosa Posada, Josephine Shone, Carlotta Scholz, Lisa Braun, Anna […]
On the 16th of March 2019 an exhibition on “Potentials of technical, intelligent textiles + smart materials” opened in the Wasserschloss Klaffenbach in Chemnitz, where a prototype from the Seminar “Self-Shaping Textiles” at the Weissensee Kunsthochschule Berlin is exhibited. The prototype of a 3D printed textile […]
SELF-SHAPING TEXTILES Potential of 3D printing for the design of performative textile structures Dates: Summersemester 2017 Institution: Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin, Textil- und Flächendesign Supervision: Agata Kycia Participants: Nayeli Vega, Anja Demuth, Xingwen Pan, Otto Lemme, Nelli Singer, Rebecca Theresa Schedler, Malu Lücking, Aleftina Karasyova, Jung eun Lee, Pamina Weiß […]
In summer 2018 I had the opportunity to collaborate with Foteini Setaki and Panos Sakkas from ΤHE NEW RAW on the Second Nature Project, designing patterns for the artifacts 3D printed from the recycled marine plastic waste. Project was later exhibited by the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation in […]
Textiles have been used in architecture ever since humankind began to build. Already nomadic tribes have used their tensile strength, flexibility and adaptability to build their first shelters. Nowadays, the development of highly engineered fibers with growing strength-to-weight ratio as well as new production technologies […]
The Design Research Exchange (DRX) initiated by HENN in Berlin provides an open platform to unite experts from various fields, promoting multi-disciplinary discussion between academics and professionals. VERTICAL NET STRUCTURES DRX 2013 takes place from the 22nd of July to the 13th of September at […]
Research Program: DRX 2012 /// Minimal Surface High-rise Structures Host: HENN Berlin Project: Prototower 03 – Ultra-lightweight Spaceframe Structure using minimal path computation Researchers: Agata Kycia (HENN), Danae Polyviou (TEUFFEL Engineering Consultants), Anna Wawrzinek (FU Berlin) The design concept of this Prototower was derived from the formations […]
The exhibition in the Dog Ear Films studio Berlin took place on the 7th September 2012 and presented results of Design Research Exchange 2012– a residency program for researchers hosted by HENN. During the eight-week long workshops we were working in mixed teams from various […]
