Victoria Reiter – Looking Outwards – 10

Kristin Neidlinger Augmented Fashion Designer

This week I chose the augmented fashion designer Kristin Neidlinger as the focus for my Looking Outwards post. I thought that her work was really interesting, because it combines a lot of different sectors that may not seem like they relate to each other.

Kristin is no doubt a fashion designer, as you can see by the elegant design of her clothes, but she also makes use of code and scientific technology. This “Goosebump Poof” is embedded with biosensors that track mood through heart rate, excitement (GSR), and breath. Thus, Neidlinger also utilizes elements of the human body, itself a complex system albeit a natural when compared to computing and technology.

Furthermore, Neidlinger’s projects really contribute something to their wearers. This project allows people to intimately self-reflect, and be in touch with their own emotions, feelings, and memories, also something that may seem to be juxtaposed with technology. Another one of her projects is a corset that detects stress levels and constricts in order to relax its wearer.

What’s even more is that her projects are made out of recycled materials!

Full info on the project can be found here!