Our latest work on Self-Shaping Textiles can be seen as part of the exhibition >>Design Lab #13: MATERIAL LEGACIES<< at the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin, accessible from the 03rd November 2022 until the 26th February 2023. The exhibition, curated by Michaela Büsse and Emile de Visscher, explores contingencies and […]
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FELT & FOLD
Dates: Wintersemester 21/22 Project supervision: Agata Kycia, Andrea Rossi, Jörg Hugo Institution: Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin, Textil- und Flächendesign Students BA Textile- and Surface Design: Anna Schmökel, Ewa Nowacka, Paolina Bumeder, Zäzilie Schilling, Jinyu Li, Xingwen Pan, Antonia Schulze, Xenia Schelper Guest student MA Textile- and Surface […]

SELF-SHAPING TEXTILES / PhD defense and publication
On the 14th of December 2021 I defended my doctoral research entitled SELF-SHAPING TEXTILES: Form-Finding of Tensile Surface Structures through 3D Printing on Pre-stressed Fabric at the TU Berlin.I would like to thank my supervisors and all the members of the doctoral examination board: Prof. […]

Magic Circle Symposium
The “Magic Circle” symposium is carried out by Forschungskreis of the Weißensee Kunsthochschule berlin (khb) in cooperation with “Matters of Activity”, under the direction of Prof. Dr. Jörg Petruschat. It aims to further develop the exchange between the knowledge cultures of the natural sciences, engineering […]

New Textile Worlds
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
SELF-SHAPING TEXTILESPotential 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 Cooperation: TPL […]

3D printing from recycled waste /// Collaboration with The New Raw
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 […]

SELF-SHAPING TEXTILES: Form-finding of tensile surface structures through 3D printing on pre-stressed fabric
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 […]

Digital knitting
Course: DIGITALE WERKZEUGE: CAD/CAM II, 2017 / weissensee kunsthochschule berlin Supervison: Agata Kycia Supervison Knitting: Veronika Groß Students: Katrin Bergner, Sophie Schmidt, Pamina Weiß, Otto Lemme, Elena Eulitz, Eva Reischl, Xingwen Pan, Hannah Lu Verse, Sophia Köllmer, Christin-Luisa Amann, Esther Kaya Stögerer, Carolin Rüllich, Katja […]