When soft actuators meet textiles 2025

Opening: June 10, 2025, 6 p.m.; exhibition until June 12, 2025 University of Art s Linz, Hauptplatz 6, 4020 Linz

Exhibition co-organized in Linz (Austria) by Ecole des Arts Déco-PSL,  University of the Arts Linz, Johannes Kepler University and the Swedish school of Textiles in the framework of the SOFTWEAR project as satellite event of EuroEAP.

“When Soft Actuators Meet Textiles”  is an initiative of the SOFTWEAR doctoral network organised in cooperation with the University of Arts Linz. Researchers, artists, designers and engineers have been invited to present their work at the intersection of soft actuators, wearables and textiles, aiming to foster an interdisciplinary arts–sciences dialogue on the topic. The occasion to discover about 16 exciting proposals where actuators soften and textiles acquire a behaviour.

Exhibitors: 
Vivian Aubert, Carin Backe, Malou Beemer, Agustina Bello-Decurnex,  Christina Bodenstein, Edwin Dertien, Laura Devendorf, Delia Dumitrescu, Jan van Erp, Louise Furie, Jose Gabriel Martinez, Matthew Gardiner, Li Guo, Edwin Jager, Dasha Kolesnyk, Lingxiao Luo, Angelika Mader, Elizabeth Meiklejohn, Michael Padaritsch, Nils-Krister Persson, Ana Piñeyro, Irene Posch, Cédric Plesse, René Preuer, Abd Ul Qadeer, Birna van Riemsdijk, Valentina Potnik, Jean-Louis Viovy, Wouter Vos, Judith Weda, Rafal Ziembicki

Exhibition chairs:
Aurélie Mosse (Ecole des Arts Décoratifs – PSL), Ingrid Graz (Johannes Kepler University), Elke Bachlmair, Irene Posch (University of the Arts Linz), Nils-Krister Persson (Högskolan i Borås).

This exhibition has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 MSCA-DN program (Grant agreement n° 101072920) and from the University of the Arts Linz.

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