About Smart Textiles Organization
| PhD Student Linda Worbin |
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Linda has been with the Swedish School of Textiles since 2004. During this time, she has worked with education, among other things, but she is now spending all her time doing a Doctoral study within Textile and Interaction Design.
Linda has been with the Swedish School of Textiles since 2004. During this time, she has worked with education, among other things, but she is now spending all her time doing a Doctoral study within Textile and Interaction Design. After growing up in Skövde, Sweden and attending practical esthetic high school in Lidköping, she received her Bachelor and Masters Degree in Textile Design at the Swedish School of Textile in Borås. Following she was employed at the Interactive Institute as a designer and researcher to work on a project within IT and Textile. "I have always been interested in creating and expressing myself through color and visual shape. I'm mosty interested in the developing process where you can combine many different aspects. It is exciting to work with new textile materials and techniques - textile in a new way. It is also interesting to question an area like textile since it has such a long and strong tradition". "Every project here at the Swedish School of Textile is fun in its own way. We have become more Doctoral students here the last few years who can cooperate. We are being given opportunities to share each other's work and results through exhibitions and conferences. We often get the chance to go out and lecture about our research. It is also a lot of fun to be out in the workshops and work experimental, to have that freedom". Practical workThe opportunity to enter deeply into something that interest her was important to Linda when deciding to take the job as a Doctoral student at the Swedish School of Textile, as well as the opportunity to experiment and design with new material. "I'm being given a fantastic chance to go deeply into and receive new knowledge in new scenarios and visions about the future. Also the opportunity to work experimental and practical. There is off course also a lot of theory, but there is most focus on the practical work. That is the number one reason why I decided to come to THS in Borås". "My dissertation is about how you can design changeable textile pattern. By doing this you can create a design that is checked at one moment and striped at the next. I want to stress the knowledge about how you design these materials. What happens when the shape changes?" A whole new world"A big challenge is that you actually can have different visual looks at different moments. A huge thing is what happens when you connect electricity with textiles. That opens a whole new world - the possibility to combine esthetic and information in a whole new way". "It is important to feel that we still want the traditional wool sweaters and not integrate technique in ALL objects and structures, but to get closer to the new materials to learn what they can bring rather than compensate. This demands more experiments before we can develop these new applications".
The new generation's textilesLinda is hoping that the new generations textiles become some kind of industrial craft in the production "However, if we want commercial products we need to change the textile production, for example integrate electrical components, which mean that different professions need to start cooperating. It is important to be patient when a lot of competence and knowledge need to unite". Through her dissertation, Linda wants to share her knowledge about how you as a designer can use new materials in the designing process. She wants to continue working doing research and experimental work, but she also thinks it would be interesting to see how she can develop the textile materials so that it brings something to the product developers. "I want to see the work I do today, but in a future phase and increase the knowledge about how the designing process changes with the development of new materials". Positive research environment"It is very positive that we have succeeded to create a research environment and being able to hire more Doctoral students, it brings so much more to the table. And not the least to have the possibility to workshops like we have".
Personal Facts:Name: Linda Worbin |
Linda Worbin was always interested in creating and expressing herself through color and design. She has been with the Swedish School of Textiles for five years and is now doing research within new textile materials and techniques.