This sport focussed textile coating can provide it’s wearer with information on their sweat composition. As the wearer sweats, the applied pattern will change of color, communicating wether or not the wearer’s sweat has healthy water/base levels.

SOAK shares insight in the condition of the inner body and visualizes wether the body is well hydrated or not.

- Developed in collaboration with Droog Design, Thewa Innovations and Annebeth Kroeskop.  

Future skins, New identities is an ongoing design research project that explores how we can tap into unconscious desires and take use of emerging technologies to trigger people in taking on new approaches when we are dressing the body. For me skin means all the layers we add to the body to protect or decorate it, meaning; it doesn’t have to be a textile, it can be anything. Using the therm skin as a doctrine within my research, helps me to bridge our existing dress-logic of putting on trousers and a shirt when getting dressed and makes it easier to find new logics. The project discusses subjects such as; how new technologies in medical industries are effecting our understanding of the body and how we interact with it or how our online networking is effecting the way we decorate the skin. When translating these changes in how we can dress the body or communicate with the body itself, new roles for the wearer emerge, asking for a new approach in fashion design. Therefore Future Skins, New Identities debates our current design practice and it’s durability.            

This article is about our modern tribal body. Found by the cause of social media and viral images.

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