Topographie Digitale

Abstract

Topographie Digitale is an interactive installation that illustrates a hybridization between science and traditional textile craftsmanship. It uses electrically functionalized and pleated textiles as touch sensitive surfaces for interacting with a video-projected visualization. The pleated fabric, augmented by our custom chemical process, and the electronic sensing system give birth to a material with a mixed heritage that is both technological and traditional, and prefigure an emerging craft. The combination of craft and technology, which gives a creole technique, is an alternative way of thinking about the place of digitalization in our society in a more resilient way.