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S+T+ARTS
STARTS is an initiative of the European Commission to foster alliances of technology and artistic practice. As part of this initiative, the STARTS residencies foster pioneering collaborations and the STARTS Prize honors the most inspired results in the field of creativity and innovation at the crossings of science and technology with the arts. STARTS is funded through various schemes provided by the European Commission.
Re-Think Manufacturing
Michael Wieser,
Viktor Weichselbaumer
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Credits: Mario Riener
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Credits:
Yokai Studios worked within the Additive Manufacturing Hub of Re-FREAM and focused on urban manufacturing. Their manufacturing tech partners were Profactor and Haratech. EMPA in St. Gallen extensively tested samples, while the Kunstuniversität Linz facilitated networking and development.
Support received from:
Horizon 2020, European Commission’s S+T+ARTS initiative at starts.eu
Yokai Studios worked within the Additive Manufacturing Hub of Re-FREAM and focused on urban manufacturing. Their manufacturing tech partners were Profactor and Haratech. EMPA in St. Gallen extensively tested samples, while the Kunstuniversität Linz facilitated networking and development.
Support received from:
Horizon 2020, European Commission’s S+T+ARTS initiative at starts.eu
Yokai Studios started as a research project with the aim of bringing back clothing production to Europe. This is made possible through the creation of a new digital based process for local customization and garment production by developing completely new methods for fashion design.
As history shows, every new technical innovation has led to new aesthetics and silhouettes. As designers, the “Yokais” shape these new silhouettes according to their vision, to create a new design language and they want to invite other designers to do that with them. Their long term goal is to build a robot based automated manufacturing system, which enables the local production of customized clothes.
Yokai Studios believe that design is a combination of functionality and innovative forward-thinking methods, that can reveal new looks of fashion products but at the same time it should face the issues that we are challenging in the 21st century.
This way of thinking gives us the opportunity to confront problems from different angles and is the result of the artistic and technical background of the Yokai Studios team members and co-founders Michael and Viktor. The main goal of the “Yokais” is to combine new technology with well-known techniques for the creation of designs in new and exciting ways.
As history shows, every new technical innovation has led to new aesthetics and silhouettes. As designers, the “Yokais” shape these new silhouettes according to their vision, to create a new design language and they want to invite other designers to do that with them. Their long term goal is to build a robot based automated manufacturing system, which enables the local production of customized clothes.
Yokai Studios believe that design is a combination of functionality and innovative forward-thinking methods, that can reveal new looks of fashion products but at the same time it should face the issues that we are challenging in the 21st century.
This way of thinking gives us the opportunity to confront problems from different angles and is the result of the artistic and technical background of the Yokai Studios team members and co-founders Michael and Viktor. The main goal of the “Yokais” is to combine new technology with well-known techniques for the creation of designs in new and exciting ways.