Fashion & technology research Marina Toeters_20070807 master_thesis Fashion Design_MAHKU
	Intro	History	Field research	Experiments	Conclusion
'Like a bird on the wire, I have tried in my way to be free'. L. Cohen 1969 1 Fashion design inside Industrial Design Department of technical Universities or technical education in academies 2 A semiotic site research to find out what differs in digital communication between technicians and designers [>>] 3 by-wire= automatic, by conducting electic current, elegance, be wired= using computers and information technology to transmit and recieve information	Conclusion What are the conditions to implement more techno garments and processes on the commercial fashion market? To position my inter-disciplinary design concepts more securely in the commercial fashion world, I explored the gap between fashion designers and technicians. There is less fashionable technology on the commercial market because of technical, economical and acceptance issues. If fashion designers and technicians work together, these pitfalls can be solved. This seems an easy solution, but I experienced that it is very hard to create positive spillovers. The two groups have totally different backgrounds, study methods and references. It is hard to understand and ‘find’ each other. More technical education on fashion design institutes1 can change this, but gatekeepers are also needed. [gatekeeper >>] While doing the experiments I made contact with technicians and experienced working as gatekeeper between the fields of technology and fashion. I would love to expand and share these experiences by creating a collaboration platform, containing information for fashion designers and technical developers. By designing such a platform2, my role will be as an intermediary between technicians and designers. A bricolager makes connections between individuals or companies, starts and motivates interdisciplinary projects. The field research and experiments will be publicized in this platform and is intended to become an inspiration for future projects and create more references for both technicians and designers. All participants of the by-wire.network3 can add new projects and proposals to the existing timeline. by-wire.net continues the research and collaboration projects by creating a virtual place where technicians and designers liquidly fuse together and start truly interdisciplinary projects with added benefits to society. Make fashion innovative again and take responsibility for environmental issues by the implementing of fashionable technology on the commercial market.