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The Wearable Senses lab focuses on designing close-to-the-body interactions. We aim to integrate research, education, and innovation with a focus on intelligent products and systems through iterative processes between design and research in which skills, knowledge, and attitudes are generated through cycles of designing, building, and experimentally testing experiential prototypes in real-life settings. Dr. Kristina Andersen will act as project leader and principle scientist involved.

EE Labels is a family business that operates on a global scale for fashion, interior, lifestyle and industry. Their core values have remained the same for over 119 years: craftsmanship, sustainability, innovation, and corporate social responsibility. They have a strong track record in developing projects in the fields of fashion, automotive, design and lifestyle and medical applications. The company is providing access not only to their specially engineered high-tech weaving machines but also their experts in Jacquard design and skilled operators.EE Labels has long been interested to work with the department of Industrial Design from the TU/e on the development of new products in especially 3-D weaving.

by-wire.net expands innovative garments and wearables by developing innovative prototypes and processes. by-wire.net acts as a network organisation. For every project a new collaborative team is created. As freelance intermediary Marina Toeters works for fashion (like Adidas) and technical companies (such as Philips Research and the Holst Centre); creates concepts, production processes, garments and textile products for example for technical companies that are looking for new applications for their materials or advises designers interested in material and process innovation. Recently by-wire.net initiated a studio, incubator and production facility for innovative fashion called The Fashion Tech Farm. This is also the home of LABELEDBY, Donktech and Lithelab.

The goal of Darcy Center is to advance porous media research in the areas of novel porous materials, transport of mass and heat in porous media, and reactive energy storage in porous materials. The Center responds to the strong demand for innovative fundamental and applied research in order to meet today’s societal challenges. It invites academia and industries to join forces in advancing porous media research in the Netherlands.