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. […]

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 […]

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, […]