Enquête d’âme: A participatory visualisation of wellbeing through embodied reflection
A reflective, textile-based interface for articulating wellbeing without reducing experience to a single score.
Writing
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Sense fiction: A sensory-driven design framework for ideating wearable haptic artefacts
A phenomenological framework that begins wearable interaction design with bodily sensation rather than predetermined function.
“I am feeling blue… and red”: Exploring alternative ways of feeling colours through a wearable haptic artefact
An autoethnographic reflection on translating colour into touch and composing multisensory wearable experiences.
TK 730
The concept and process behind a hybrid typewriter that translates written words into wearable knitted code.
Book
Roupas inteligentes:
combinando moda e tecnologia
A practical and critical introduction to wearable technology, written in Portuguese for designers, artists, researchers and curious makers.
Published by Editora Senac São Paulo in 2020, the book moves from concepts and applications to conductive, luminous, chromatic and biological materials. Tutorials and the Fashiontech Canvas connect technical knowledge with creative practice.
- Language
- Portuguese
- Edition
- Senac São Paulo · 2020
- Length
- 200 pages
Essays, reviews & commentary
Writing for wider conversations
Public writing on textiles, circularity, materials and wearables—alongside reviews and reflections from exhibitions, events and encounters.
Complete Medium archive ↗Retail After the Purchase: Designing for Material Knowledge, Care, and Slower Consumption
What might retail become if it supported repair, learning and longer relationships with clothes after the transaction?
Circular Fashion Is Not a Fabric — It Is an Infrastructure
An argument for treating circularity as a coordinated system of services, knowledge and responsibility—not as a new material alone.
This Glove Lets You Feel Colour
A public account of a wearable that translates colour into touch and unsettles familiar relations between the senses.
Europe’s Green Pivot: Rethinking the Bioeconomy
A critical reading of Europe’s bioeconomy ambitions, including material innovation, ecological limits and risks of overconfidence.
The EU’s Big Bet on Circular Textiles
A translation of the EU textile strategy into questions of longevity, traceability, producer responsibility and design practice.
RCA Design Futures Symposium: Between Past, Present, and Futures
Reflections on a symposium that connected emerging technologies with Afrofuturism, ancestral knowledge, spiritual intelligence and more responsible ways of designing futures.
Rethinking AI in Fashion: Between Promise and Practice
A critical account of AI adoption in fashion, examining creative collaboration, education, digital product passports, data governance and the gap between technological promise and everyday practice.
Fashion’s Changemakers: Untold Stories of Vision & Resilience or Hope Is Not a Business Model
An account of an industry conversation about innovation, intellectual property and the resilience required to move circular fashion ideas from hopeful narratives into viable systems.
Textiles 2030 Annual Summit 2025: Uniting the fashion and textiles industry to act on climate change
Reflections from the Textiles 2030 summit on collective action, climate targets and the practical conditions for a more circular industry.
Kinematic Tuning, Ghost Circuits, and the Future of Soft Robotics
A response to the launch of the Handbook of Soft Robotics, tracing how material intelligence and speculative practice can reshape machines.
Reclaiming AI for Africa: A Reflection on Kathleen Siminyu’s Talk at Interface Cultures
A reflection on African-led AI research, linguistic representation and the ethical infrastructures needed for communities to retain agency over their languages and data.
Reconnecting with Nature and Circularity in the Fashion Industry
Reflections on Rachel Arthur’s Textiles Summit talk and what natural cycles can teach fashion about growth, value, storytelling and regenerative change.
Stitching Worlds: Exploring Textiles and Electronics
A reflection on a book and Vienna exhibition that bring textile knowledge, electronics and artistic research into the same space.
On Sensory Fashion
A response to the Sensory Fashion Roundtable and an invitation to think through touch, sound, smell, taste and embodied subjectivity.
Looking for space: Aboriginal culture and fashiontech
Reflections from Tribe Against Machine on Aboriginal culture, technological practice and the spaces opened by cultural exchange.
Wearables and Data Visualisation
Six projects that use the body and clothing as surfaces through which environmental information becomes perceptible.