#Fabricademy show

a globally distributed 6-month program at the intersection of #textiles, #digital #fabrication and #biology.

https://waag.org/en/event/fabricademy-show-1/

See Flora's work and work done by other students of #textilelab Amsterdam @waag

April 17, 18, 20–24
Hrs: 12:00–17:00
Nieuwmarkt 4, Amsterdam

A Life that Follows

A showcase of #fish #skin as a material that can be used within #fashion and interiors - honouring the Indigenous practices from which it originates.

#fablab #fabacademy #xtool

After hosting the #Fabricademy #bootcamp 2025 at @greenfabric we are already preparing next Fabricademy 6-months course starting in September! This programme mixes #textile, #digitalfabrication and #biology

Running from mid-September till end of March, it is led by international experts in many different fields: #biomaterials, #opensource #hardware, #naturaldye, #softrobotics, #etextile, #digitalbodies, #textilescaffolds… It gathers students all around the world through international nodes (#Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, France, Armenia, Jordan, Rwanda, Mexico, Japan…).

It is not structurally subsidized but Green Fabric, the Belgian node, offers 2 full-scolarships per year (for 3 years) with the support of Feder and Brussels Fablab Network. This scolarship covers the 8000$ subscription fees and you'll have access to our textile #fablab during the programme.
I will be the local instructor in Brussels.

Please spread the word to people you think might be interested to follow this one-of-a-kind course!

@fiberarts

#Fabricademy bootcamp 2025
May 19→25

Don't miss this year's bootcamp in Brussels to encounter international fellows in the field of #textile, #engineering and #biology.

I am co-organizing it through the #fablab @GreenFabric and the #fabricademy team (@fabtextiles ).

A great opportunity to test Fabricademy themes and way of working through intense hands-on workshops. It will cover #biomaterials with #mycelium #fungi, #modulardesign, #machineknitting with the #kniterate machine, using the #opensourcehardware machines that we built, #etextile with thermochromic inks.

Don't miss also the #MakerFaire on the following week-end (May 26-27) with the Fabricademy exhibition of final projects and a workshop on #softrobotics.

More info on https://bootcamp2025.textile-academy.org.

Boosts are more than welcome!

#fiberarts #innovation #research #digitalart #design #bruxelles #brussel #brussels

Students from Autonomous Design (Kask, Gent) came @greenfabric today for a workshop on modular design and #lasercut. Modules which Ben be inserted into each other are cut in waste fabric to for surfaces or 3d structures with no seam nor glue.
They either invented their own modules or used #opensource designs from https://oscircularfashion.com .
This workshop is derived from a #Fabricademy course.

Thanks to artist Amandine David for bringing her students!

#textiledesign #circularfashion

Tomorrow is the online open day of #fabricademy , a 6 months course on textile and digital. It's an international course that you can follow at a node in your country. If there's no node where you are but you have access to #fablab machines, you can also follow the course with a remote mentor.

Tomorrow is the perfect moment to see what is the course about, projects made within the course, ask questions, etc.

I am myself a Fabricademy tutor at @greenfabric Brussels node.

You can subscribe to the open day here:
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/fabricademy/1564744

#textile #biology #digitalfabrication #digitalcrafts

#ephemere

strip-p-ed out

Some more pictures of the #patterns to bypass #cctv #facerecognition.

Picture 1: data visualisation of CCTVs ratios in 5 European cities (cctv/surface, cctv/population, cctv/crime index). #knitting on the #kniterate machine

Picture 2: doodled stripes on #inkscape with hatches paste effect. #knitting on the #kniterate machine

Picture 3: #sewing a ready-made pattern from deadstock fabrics

Picture 4: Exhibition view. A visitor trying the garment with live CCTV face recognition (#opencv)

Model: Élodie Goldberg
#fabricademy project 2024

For more info see my previous post!

strip-p-ed out

A 3 months #research around #patterns to bypass #cctv #facerecognition.
Tested with #opencv.
Project done in the #fabricademy, a programme over textile and technology, at the @greenfabric node.

I knitted 2 kimonos on a #kniterate, a semi-industrial #machineknitting with deadstock yarns. The 3rd one is a deadstock fabric whose pattern was already a working #camouflage for opencv.

The project is fully documented here:
http://class.textile-academy.org/2024/stephanie-vilayphiou/project/

Concerning cctv surveillance, France has recently gone crazy over it... it seems like they want to recognise logos from organisations in protests and faces associated with them... does someone know an opencv algorithm to detect specific images? Or does it necessarily go through machine learning?

Hello Mastodon,
Here's my #introduction post.

Former #graphicdesigner and #webdeveloper at #OpenSourcePublishing, I gradually turned my practice to #textiledesign. Still exploring free and open source software, programming but in relation to many textile techniques.

My main practice is #knitting, #machineknitting and #visiblemending. But I love to explore any #fiberarts related #technique.

In 2020, I joined the #textile #fablab @GreenFabric in #brussels where I like to build / #hack #machines for textile.

In 2024, I joined the #Fabricademy programme ( #textile and #technology) where I made digitally knitted garments to bypass #CCTV #facerecognition.
I am now a Fabricademy instructor!

A little picture as intro: My Mother was a Computer. Title borrowed from media theoretician Katherine N. Hayles. This is the opening piece of a series of knitted portraits of women who played a major role in the history of computing.

I'm super happy to find back my old family here in Lurk/Mastodon (you know who you are :) ). 💜