Textile Technology and Design From Interior Space to Outer Space

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 design and interior design.

Deborah Schneiderman is Associate Professor of interior design in the School of Art & Design at the Pratt Institute, New York, USA, and a registered architect and LEED Accredited Professional.

Alexa Griffith Winton is an independent design historian based in New York, where she is also a part time assistant professor at Parsons School of Constructed Environments, New York, USA.

Foreword by Susan Yelavich (Director the Parsons new Masters in Design Studies Program, New York, USA)
Introduction

Section 1 Textile: Pliable Planes, Interior Applications, and Gendered Fabrications
Tailoring Second and Third Skins, Lois Weinthal (Associate Professor and Director of Interior Design, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada)
Felt and the Agency of Transformation, Helene Renard (Associate Professor of Interior Design, Virginia Tech School of Architecture and Design, Virginia, USA)
Anca Lasc (Assistant Professor of Art and Design History, Shippensburg University, Pennsylvania, USA)
Interstitial Threads: The Body, Textiles and Interiority in Contemporary Interior Design, Alexa Griffith Winton (Assistant Part-Time Professor Parsons, School of Constructed Environments, New York, USA)
Interview, Carol Bove (Artist, New York, USA)

Section 2 Technology: Mechanical and Digital Innovation in the Interior Realm
The Tessellated Interior: Continuous Surface and the Material Seam, Igor Siddiqui (Assistant Professor of Interior Design at The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA)
Extreme Interior Design, Brian Davies (Associate Professor of Interior Design at the University of Cincinnati College of Design, Ohio, USA)
Sonic Technologies in Interior Space, Charlie Morrow (Artist and Sound Designer, New York, USA)
Bespoke: Tailoring The Prefabricated Interior, Deborah Schneiderman (Associate Professor of Interior Design at Pratt Institute, New York, USA)
'Space' habitats [and Interview with Charles J. Camarda], Larry Toups (NASA’s lead for Habitation, in the Exploration Missions and Systems Office, Johnson Space Center, Texas, USA)

Section 3 Textile Technologies: Smart and Soft Textiles
Sensorial Space: Responsive Interiors Thru Smart Textiles, Margarita Benitez (Assistant Professor at Kent State University, Ohio, USA)
Materializing the Digital Realm, Jonathan Anderson (Assistant Professor of Interior Architecture at the University of Greensboro, North Carolina, USA)
Intelligent Textiles and Design, Kunigunde Cherenack (Research Scientist at Philips Research, Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Ulterior Motives: 3D Wallpaper, Sarah Strauss (Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Interior Design at Pratt Institute, New York, USA)
Advanced Materials for Space Environments, Evelyne Orndoff (NASA Aerospace Technologist, Johnson Space Center, Texas, USA)

Conclusion
Bibliography
Index