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Materializing the Digital: Valentina Favaro's Innovative Design Project

Valentina Favaro's "Materializing the Digital" project delves into the intersection of fashion and technology, exploring the creation of a new category of fabrics that enable movement and serve as a source of inspiration for the creation of new shapes. The project, which began in January 2019 at Ravensbourne University and concluded in October 2019, seeks to address the overwhelming influence of the virtual in our lives and the need to preserve the material world.

These designs investigate how movement can be embodied in urban garments through the use of programmable materials in response to the digital era. By analyzing the relation between body and movement, the project aims to create fabrics that adapt and react to the wearer's movements, blurring the lines between reality and perception.

Valentina's research focuses on programmable fabrics, utilizing motion capture technology to study body movements during activities such as biking, running, and skating. The project also involves the use of 3D printing technology to create transformable fabrics that change shape based on the texture printed on them, resulting in adaptive and reactive clothing.

Valentina's innovative approach has earned her the Bronze A' Design Award in Textile, Fabric, Textures, Patterns, and Cloth Design in 2020, recognizing her outstanding and creatively ingenious designs that contribute to quality of life improvements.

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