Living Beings

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Product Facts

Project name

Living Beings

Award year

2022

designed as

Master thesis

Length

125 CM

Width

4 CM

Height

192 CM

Weight

1,1 KG

Material specification

Textile constructions made of wood as actuators / soft robotics or artificial muscles

Designation

Material

Description

Living Beings explores the performative properties of wood through textile techniques and enviromental humidity. Wooden veneer is processed into thin filaments and knitted into multi-dimensional objects. When moist, the cellulose based wooden fibers swell and make the textile structure move. The material wood, which may appear to us as rigid and passive, starts to perform and exhibits its temporal and active dimensions.

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