Full Description
Textile Messages focuses on the emerging field of electronic textiles, or e-textiles - computers that can be soft, colorful, approachable, and beautiful. E-textiles are articles of clothing, home furnishings, or architectures that include embedded computational and electronic elements. This book introduces a collection of tools that enable novices - including educators, hobbyists, and youth designers - to create and learn with e-textiles. It then examines how these tools are reshaping technology education - and DIY practices - across the K-16 spectrum, presenting examples of the ways educators, researchers, designers, and young people are employing them to build new technology, new curricula, and new creative communities.
Contents
Contents: Becky Stern: Vignette: LilyPad Arduino Embroidery - Michel Guglielmi/Hanne-Louise Johannesen: Vignette: The Climate Dress - Kalani Craig: Vignette: Know-It-All Knitting Bag - Leah Buechley: LilyPad Arduino: E-Textiles for Everyone - Despina Papadopoulos/Zach Eveland: Vignette: FabricKit & Masai Dress - Grace Ngai/Stephen C.F. Chan/Vincent T.Y. Ng: i*CATch: A Plug-n-Play Kit for Wearable Computing - Nwanua Elumeze: Traveling Light: Making Textiles Programmable «Through the Air» - Lynne Bruning: Vignette: Mrs. Mary Atkins-Holl - Hannah Perner-Wilson/Leah Buechley: Handcrafting Textile Sensors - Kylie Peppler/Diane Glosson: Learning about Circuitry with E-textiles in After-school Settings - Yasmin Kafai/Deborah Fields/Kristin Searle: Making Connections Across Disciplines in High School E-Textile Workshops - Heidi Schelhowe/Eva-Sophie Katterfeldt/Nadine Dittert/Milena Reichel: EduWear: E-Textiles in Youth Sports and Theater - Eric Lindsay: Vignette: The Space Between Us: Electronic Music + Modern Dance + E-Textiles - Kylie Peppler/ Leslie Sharpe/Diane Glosson: E-Textiles and the New Fundamentals of Fine Arts - Diana Eng: Vignette: FairyTale Fashion - Mike Eisenberg/Ann Eisenberg/Yingdan Huang: Bringing E-Textiles into Engineering Education - Osamu Iwasaki: Vignette: Amirobo: Crocheted Robot - Kylie Peppler /Joshua Danish: E-Textiles for Educators: Participatory Simulations with e-Puppetry - Leah Buechley/Jennifer Jacobs/Benjamin Mako Hill: LilyPad in the Wild: Technology DIY, E-Textiles, and Gender - Thecla Schiphorst/Jinsil Seo: Vignette: Tendrils: Sensing & Sharing Touch - Daniela K. Rosner: Mediated Craft: Digital Practices around Creative Handwork - Joanna Berzowska: E-Textile Technologies in Design, Research and Pedagogy - Kate Hartman: Vignette: Muttering Hat - Shaowen Bardzell: E-Textiles and the Body: Feminist Technologies and Design Research - Maggie Orth: Adventures in Electronic Textiles.
