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- Designing With Our Five Senses: SightSight. Sound. Smell. Touch. Taste. Our five senses have a much bigger influence on the way we perceive our built environment than one may…
- Designing With Our Five Senses: TouchIn line with our theme of 'The Five Senses' at Material Xperience 2015, we will be breaking down the Five Senses by looking at different senses each…
- How do materials that stimulate your senses improve the built environment?Sight. Sound. Touch. Smell. Taste. Through better inclusion of all our five senses in design, can patients recover more quickly? Will office workers become…
- Designing with our Five Senses: SmellAs part of our Material Xperience theme exploring the ‘Five Senses’ in design, we’ve looked so far at sight, touch and taste. Today we are…
- Designing With Our Five Senses: SoundToday we are looking at our final sense in our series about the influence of The Five Senses on our built environment. So far…
- Designing with Our Five Senses: TasteOur next sense as part of our ‘Five Senses Theme’ this week is Taste. And while you may not immediately associate taste with buildings…
- Jeanne Dekkers: Sense & Care at Material XperienceJeanne Dekkers will be at Material Xperience 2015 on Friday, February 13 @ 14:00 to lecture about the results of Sense & Care: a…
- TextureOf all sensorial qualities of a material, texture hits our tactile sense strongest. Our tactile sense is the first we activate, and it is…
- GlossEdit March 2017: This material is no longer available We use a material because it can perform a function. This may be a technical…
- Smart laser cutter system detects different materialsResearchers at MIT developed a smart laser cutter system called SensiCut that can differentiate between 30 materials commonly found in makerspaces and workshops. Laser…
- Wall++: Turning walls into enormous touchpadsWalls generally don’t do much but stand, keeping your roof up and separating rooms. But since everything is becoming smart, why not your walls…
- Living materials inspired by kombucha teaEngineers at MIT and Imperial College London developed a new way to generate tough, functional materials, using a mixture of bacteria and yeast similar…
- Smart, compostable thin film packaging materialSan Francisco-based biomaterials company Primitives developed biobased thin film packaging material that can sense and respond to the environment, enabling the monitoring of quality,…
- The future of interiors: an interview with Niels van Eijk and Miriam van der LubbeThis year’s ambassadors for the sector Interiors of our annual trade fair MaterialDistrict Rotterdam (formerly Material Xperience) are Niels van Eijk and Miriam van…
- Could Fragrance Make the Built Environment Safer?Because our sense of smell is linked to the limbic system of the brain, certain fragrances can amplify feelings and memories. Scent therefore exerts…
- Touch the ‘365 Quickshift’ Door HandleIn the 'Touch' series by Studio Rene Siebum, the ‘365 Quickshift’ door handle explores the question of how commercial production methods can extinguish our…
- A biophilic school made of biobased materialsTo stimulate children’s concentration, health and learning capacity, Dutch architectural studio ORGA architect designed a primary school in Almere, the Netherlands, with biophilic principle…
- The future of Print & Sign: an interview with Annemarie KleveFrom book to magazine, from advertising column to packaging material; the world of Print & Sign revolves around carriers and print techniques. From special…
- Sewn Timber Shell uses sewing to create a wooden structureThe so-called Sewn Timber Shell, developed by researchers from the University of Stuttgart and Tongji University, investigates the use of robotics and sensing mechanisms…
- Colour-changing compression bandage signals pressure levelResearchers at MIT developed a compression bandage with pressure-sensing photonic fibres, which change colour when stretched. Compression bandages and stockings are use for conditions…
- More examples of German material designEvery year, students from the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin design products from a whole range of materials. Below you will find several projects,…
- The future of products: an interview with Marcel VroomWhat will products look like in the future? What materials will we use, and will everything be 'smart'? Industrial designer Marcel Vroom and ambassador…
- Electrick: making a touchpad out of nearly anythingNowadays, most people will have a smartphone, a tablet, or perhaps even a touch sensitive television. What all of these screens have in common,…
- BioLogic: moisture-responsive workout suit made with live cellsWhen it’s hot inside, you can open a window in the hope that it cools off. However, as an athlete, there is only so…
