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Reactive architecture, augmented textiles, domotics and soft architecture fabrication: On electronic and reactive textiles in domestic contexts
The present paper interrogates
the status and the role of
electronic and reactive textiles
in domestic contexts. After a
preliminary incursion into the
modern definition of home and
homing, the paper addresses
the changes that took place
in the domestic space due to
the development of digital and
communication technologies.
Defined as a “sensing home,” as a
“communicating domestic space,”
smart homes are challenging the
traditional understanding of home,
defined in terms of intimacy and
privacy. In this context, electronic
and reactive textiles are asked
to overcome the low acceptance
of smart homes, through their
technical, sensorial, and cultural
dimensions. The paper highlights
some of the pros and cons
in accommodating the latest
technological advances in the
field of textiles, analyses the way
physical computing allows textiles
to transform into domotics (robots
for domestic environments),
presents some of the latest
developments on soft architecture
fabrication and argues in favor of
a much more critical approach to
the development of sensors and
actuators in textile objects.
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