Customizable, Self-Healing Clothes During the course of this project, our design for self-healing / repairing clothes has gone through numerous iterations, with much discussion on the ‘why’. Initially, our design consisted the use of a genetically modified fungus whose growth could be controlled and directed by interacting with a scaffold, with the ‘why’ rather contentiously […]
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Self repairing material – Blog 1
In 2016 over 300,000 tons of clothing were thrown into landfill in the UK alone (Smithers, 2017). The reasons why people throw out their clothes are many, from them being too small or damaged, to the colours fading. These issues could potentially be rectified if the clothes could repair, easily change shape, and have colours which […]