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Metropolia University of Applied Sciences
Helsinki, Finland

With this exhibition, textile design students of Metropolia University of Applied Sciences want to showcase their skills and interests in the field of textile design by exploring the theme of “Mobile home”. The story and showroom are developed around the idea of a visual/memory/sensory feeling that creates the feeling of home where ever you are. The ideas and approaches are as varied as the selection of students, bringing out everyone’s personal point of view and skillset.

Weissensee Kunsthochschule
Berlin, Germany

The weisenesse hoschlole presents two projects of textile design students - Mergine loops, room divider, which is created from textile loops. The second project is Flora Skin - Approximation of a Surface, in this project the visual and haptic properties of knitted fabric were researched and developed with the help of bionic principles.

UMPRUM
Praha, Czech Republic

Alongside traditional techniques, the Studio of Textile Design has long been concerned with experimentation and seeking new ways of utilising various materials. It proves that this field penetrates into many areas of life and technology and does not always have to be restricted to traditional fabric fibres and processes. Simultaneously, the studio respects in its approach the needs for sustainable development and ecology.

Burg Giebichstein Kunsthochschule Halle
Halle, Germany

Kunsthochschule Halle presents the Final degree projects of students from the conceptual textile studio. The exhibited projects resulted from experimenting with materials, 3D printing and natural processes.

Academy of Fine Arts and Design
Bratislava, Slovakia

The studio of textile design presents experimental laboratory of materials. The main idea was to upcycle, use again or experiment with material and textile in sustainable way and bring solutions for the future.

Tartu Art College
Tartu, Estonia

The students are presenting their project within Campus fair area arranged specially for higher education facilities and gathered under the theme of „Mobile Home“ to raise the questions of current global changes in people’s identity, living environment and safety.

Budapest Metropolitan
University of Applied Sciences
Budapest, Hungary

We represent our school's (Budapest Metropolitan University) textile designer BA. For one semester we study basic pattern design and screen printing and for two we study weaving, for the diploma we can choose which one we prefer. We have here with us a few of our patterns -for the designs we choosed ethnographic themes, rewrote them graphically, first with traditional techniques then digitally.
The handwoven fabrics are experimental pieces for 'ikat', we dyed the yarn and weaved them on loom.

University of Ljubljana
Faculty of Fine Arts and Design
Ljubljana, Slovenia

BA and MA students of fashion and textile design have been given a task to question the today’s attitude towards environment, ecology values, lifestyles, technologies, and create innovative, environmentally friendly objects with added values.

Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau
Faculty of Applied Art Schenberg
Schöneberg, Germany

Students work shows to visitors various spectre of patterns and techniques demonstrated mainly textile products as pillows or curtains.

Design School China Academy of Art
Hangzhou, China

Section of Textile and Fashion design has 3 majors: textile design, fashion design and interior textile design and 9 studios as CAD, apparel structure and techniques, batik, dying silk screen printing, knitting, weaving and digital printing etc. The department lays great emphasis on traditional crafts and modern high technology related to design, and leads its way to material and craft innovation. The teachers and student’s creation work from fashion and textile design department are based on the core value of activating oriental culture.

Hochschule Luzern Design & Kunst
Luzern, Switzerland

Our aim is to improve personal privacy in reception centres, through creating a range of add-ons for different types of bunk beds. Our multifunctional products shield and shade the inhabitant; they can be used as shelving and storage room. Allowing for personal customization, our add-ons grant the inhabitant the ability of creating home within the available space of 200x90 cm.

Haute école des arts du Rhin
Mulhouse, France

The exhibition of textile students of Haute école des arts du Rhin, shows natural ways of printing and dyeing of textiles, using sunlight and natural pigments.