"Textile Technology and Design addresses the critical role of the interior at the intersection of design and technology, with a range of interdisciplinary arguments by a wide range of contributors: from design practitioners to researchers and scholars to aerospace engineers. Chapters examine the way in which textiles and technology - while seemingly distinct - continually inform each other through their persistent overlapping of interests, and eventually coalesce in the practice of interior design. Covering all kinds of interiors from domestic (prefabricated kitchens and 3D wallpaper) to extreme (underwater habitats and space stations), it features a variety of critical aspects including pattern and ornament, domestic technologies, craft and the imperfect, gender issues, sound and smart textiles. This book is essential reading for students of textile technology, textile and interior design"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Susan Yelavich -- Introduction / Alexa Griffith Winton and Deborah Schneiderman -- Part 1. Textile: pliable planes, interior applications, and fabrications : Interstitial threads: the body, textiles, and interiority in contemporary interior design / Alexa Griffith Winton ; Soft spaces: from the textile-clad interior to modern interior design / Anca I. Lasc ; Felt and the emerging interior / Helene Renard ; Tailoring second and third skins / Lois Weinthal ; Interview with Carol Bove / Deborah Schneiderman and Alexa Griffith Winton -- Part 2. Mechanical and digital innovation in the interior realm : Ulterior motives / Sarah Strauss ; Topically embedded: surface as graphic material / Igor Siddiqui ; Materializing the digital realm: textile of the modern age / Jonathon Anderson and Laura Schoenthaler ; Bespoke: tailoring the mass-produced prefabricated interior / Deborah Schneiderman ; Sensorial space: responsive interiors through smart textiles / Margarita Benitez ; Self-actuated textiles, interconnectivity, and the design of the home as a more sustainable timescape / Aurélie Mossé ; Inverview with Charlie Morrow: sound environment design / Deborah Schneiderman and Alexa Griffith Winton -- Part 3. Extreme environments and outer space : Design for Extreme Environments Project [DEEP]: a case study of innovations in mediating adverse conditions on the human body / Brian F. Davies ; Design for confinement: the art and science of sensory deprivation in space / Evan Twyford ; Fabrics for space travel / Evelyne Orndoff ; The role of soft materials in the design of extreme interior environments for space exploration / Larry Toups, Matthew Simon, Robert Howard, and A. Scott Howe ; Interview with Charles Camarda / Deborah Schneiderman and Alexa Griffith Winton.

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