Meg GrantMeg Grant (NL) is a maker and an aspiring mad inventor. Meg Grant Formally-trained in fashion design and self-taught in web development, she now spends as much of her time possible experimenting with electronics, soft circuits and embedding technology into textiles. Meg is involved in V2_'s E-Textile Workspaces. Document Actions1
Sep 2011
New artworks by Kasia Molga, Julie Legault, Xiaowen Zhu, E-textile Workspace, Jelle Valk and Olav Huizer, developed at V2_ during this year's Summer Sessions. Music by AFTA-1. The "TK 730" (2011) is a work by the eTextiles Workspace group (Anja Hertenberger, Leonie Urff, Ricardo O'Nascimento and Meg Grant). Dutch-based E-Textile Workspace is a project and reflection for wearable technology. June 10 2010, V2_ participated at the Maker Lab during the DMY Festival. Meg Grant, Melissa Coleman, Anja Hertenberger, Joachim Rotteveel and Piem Wirtz represented the E-Textile Workspace in Berlin. The 21st of October 2010, the E-Textile group chose 'transformational garments' as starting point for discussion. Where the topic can be interpreted very literally, in the sense of transforming the shape of a wearable piece, the discussion evolved ... The 4th E-Textile Workspace took place on 24 February 2010. We were joined by two students from the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht. Aduen Darriba and Anouk Wipprecht are working on a graduation project together that integrates wearable ... Third E-Textile Workspace, January 21 2010, focused on the question of why we make wearables. DMY International Design Festival Berlin, 09-13 June 2010, has invited the E-Textile team to give a hands-on workshop at their Maker Lab space. In the 5th E-Textile Workspace we focused on the question how to make textiles move. Previously, some ad hoc experimentation with Flexinol shape memory alloy was done, but we all agreed it would be interesting to see what we could come up with ... As the outside temperature rises, so does it rise inside the V2_Lab – the 2011 Summer Sessions have begun! |
