Composing over time, temporal patterns – in Textile Design

Abstract: With the beginning of the era of Smart Textiles, the textile designer is chal - lenged with a range of materials which are characterized by their ability to change expressional and functional properties. These materials respond to environmental stimuli, user interaction and pre-programmed parameters and visualize their reponses to the viewer. For example colour change dye systems and light-emitting technologies open up oppertunities to explore new colour palettes and behaviours, and also the potential for designing with novel and complex properties and aesthetics (Berzina, 2011, Krogh, N.D., Layne, N.D., Taylor, 2010, Wingfield, N.D.). The availability of these new materials chang - es the conditions of conventional textile design; a textile pattern expression is no longer static, it once had one face, one gestalt or expression, whereas now it can show different expressions, a definite or indefinite number of times.