Magic Lining VIDEO & Photos!

Oct 8, 2018

Magic Lining is a collaborative project between an Kristi Kuusk and scientists from the areas of human-computer interaction, psychology and neuroscience -- MAGICSHOES. Throughout the STARTS Residency we have been working on achieving a clothing, that is able to change the wearer's self-perception through the inside of the garment.

The project focuses on e-textiles to integrate sensory feedback close to the body. The work builds on the insights from scientific project MAGICSHOES and proposes a garment that allows the user to feel as if their body would be made of a different material.

Photo: Magic Lining allows the wearer to feel as a cloud, rough sharp rocks, or flowing water. Actor: Loore Martma, Photographer: Iris Kivisalu, 2018

We started from blending the team's knowledge in a kick off workshop Magic!, got to know each other more in Kristi's Textile Futures studio in Tallinn. We proceeded into the first two weeks residency at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. You can read all about it in our blog posts week1 & week2. Other part of the residency took part at the Tallinn University. And the project continued by another 2 weeks residency at Carlos III de Madrid.

An overview of our approach and process:

Our final video:

We've presented the project at public events:

10.Nov 2017 World Usability Day Tallinn, Tallinn University, Estonia

21.Dec 2017 Research Group meeting, Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

22.Jan 2018 Soft electronics workshop, Tallinn University, Estonia

15.June 2018 STARTS Residencies Day, Pompidou, France

26.June 2018 Fashion Tech, Tallinn Creative Incubator, Estonia

28-30.June MOCO conference, Italy

12.Sept 2018 Textile Futures: design research meets the industry, Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia

We've published a conference paper:

2018. K. Kuusk, A. Tajadura-Jiménez, A. Väljamäe. Magic lining: an exploration of smart textiles altering people’s self-perception. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Movement Computing, Genoa, Italy, June 2018 (MOCO’2018), 6 pages. DOI: 10.1145/3212721.3212893.