Exploring Everyday Experiences of a Multimorphic Textile-form Artifact
Alice Buso
https://www.alicebuso.com/
Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands
Alice Buso is a designer and design researcher. Her doctoral research at Delft University of Technology demonstrates the challenges and opportunities when designing textile-forms through the lenses of performativity and multi-situatedness. The thesis advocates for holistic and ecological approaches to designing interactions with textiles that embrace their unique temporal, unpredictable, and multi-situated qualities. Alice currently works as Product Manager at Foamlab, where she leads the identification of application domains and business development efforts to translate bio-nanocellulose foams from lab scale into viable products and market opportunities. Trained in industrial design engineering, with expertise spanning textiles, smart materials, and biomaterials, she aims to advance the adoption of next-generation materials and support the transition toward sustainable and circular futures.
Holly McQuillan
Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands
Netherlands
Holly McQuillan is an assistant professor in Multimorphic Textile Systems at TU Delft, where her research explores the design and development of complex interconnected fiber-yarn-textile-form systems as a means for transforming how we design, manufacture, use, and recover textile-based forms. Co-founder of the Centre of Design Research for Regenerative Material Ecologies (DREAM), Holly’s research explores the material potential of textile systems to transform how textile products are designed and made, while also enabling enriched experiences that extend use-time. Oriented through a holistic lens, and builds on her experience developing and disseminating the field of zero waste fashion design, Holly’s work advocates for a new understanding of the relationship between designer and system, material, and form to conceptualize and prototype alternative futures.
Kaspar Jansen
Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands
Netherlands
Kaspar Jansen is a professor of Emerging Materials at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering. He studied Chemical Engineering at the University of Twente and received his PhD degree from TU Delft in 1993 for his research on injection molding. After postdoctoral work at the universities of Salerno and Twente, he returned to Delft in 2001 to work as an associate professor at the Mechanical Engineering faculty. He joined Delft’s faculty of Industrial Design Engineering in 2012 and was appointed as a full professor in 2015. His current research focuses on smart textiles, particularly the development of soft, textile-based sensors for sports and health applications.
Himanshu Verma
Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands
Netherlands
Himanshu Verma is an assistant professor of Inclusive Human-AI Collaboration at the Delft University of Technology (Netherlands) and an Affiliated Researcher at the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI, Amsterdam). His current research focuses on designing and evaluating inclusive, collaborative, and empathic mixed-initiative AI agents that can act as effective team members and enhance the performative and creative potential of humans and teams. His work spans the contexts of healthcare, education, and accessibility. He is co-leading the largest Dutch public-private partnership on co-designing inclusive and accessible AI and XR technologies with diverse disabled communities through the TACIT project. His research is supported by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and Horizon Europe programs.
Elvin Karana
Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands
Netherlands
Elvin Karana is a professor of Materials Innovation and Design at TU Delft. She investigates the intersections of design, biotechnology, and materials science. Elvin founded the Delft-Biodesign Lab, which advances biodesign research by developing frameworks, tools, and methodologies that deepen engagement with microbial systems and inform the design of biomaterials that integrate into everyday socio-material practices, aligning with the cycles and temporalities of ecological systems.