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 […]
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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. […]

Bauhaus 4.0 – Fibrous Systems
Recent developments in computational design and robotic manufacturing open up new possibilities for production and materialization, challenging designers to reconsider the entire design-to-production chain. Initially developed for factory automation, industrial robots revolutionized creative disciplines where architects, artists and designers constantly push the limits of what […]

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 […]

eCAADe 2020 – “Self-shaping textiles” publication
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 […]

Scaling Nature (2): Fibers, Muscles, Bones
MoA Design Studio 2019/2020 Department of Textile and Surface Design weißensee school of art and design berlin Scaling Nature / MoA design studio is a series of interdisciplinary, experimental and innovative teaching, conducted by Prof. Christiane Sauer at weißensee school of art and design, berlin […]

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 […]

Textile Building Skin
Course: efnMOBILE Workshop 2017, University of AntwerpSupervison: Prof. Uta Pottgiesser, Paul-Rouven Denz, Agata KyciaStudents: Malu Lücking, Katja Riley, Tali Berger, Rute Chaves, Lena Ganswindt, Jack Randol, Charlotte Ackerman, Abby Wheeler, Boram Park, Rebecca Schedler, Benjamin Gladki, Junshen Wu, Minyoung Han, Dorothee Krings, Anthony Chen, Spencer Alfred Culhane, Jameela […]

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 […]

SteinWeich
Dates: Wintersemester 2016/2017 Institution: Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin, Fachgebiet Textil- und Flächendesign Supervision: Prof. Christiane Sauer, Agata Kycia Students: Charlotte Ackermann, Rute Chaves, Lena Ganswindt, Ben Gladki, Minyoung Han, Olga Kuschchyk, Liina Leo, Malu Lücking, Friederike Müller, Boram Park, Jack Randol, Ida Rapp, Katharina Filist, Rebecca Theresa Schedler, […]