Embodied Deformations
Reimagining Wearable Interaction Through Soft, Responsive Materials
Soft material ecologies emerge as technological systems, challenging the dominance of rigid electronics and redefining how motion sensing can be embodied. Through piezoresistive elastomers embedded in stretchable textiles, wearables conform to the body and move with it. These soft systems capture continuous, real-time signals shaped by deformation, enabling affordances through natural movement such as bending and stretching. Suggesting a quiet alternative to contemporary gadgets, this allows technology to lose its objecthood and dissolve into human motion.
