Funded Teams :: Open Call 1
(August 2017 – February/March 2018)
Following our first Open Call for Collaborative Innovation projects (1st April – 31st May 2017), 22 teams were awarded WEAR Sustain funding in the summer of 2017, embarking on a 6 month programme between August 2017 and March 2018, of ethical and sustainable prototype development, supported by our unique network of hubs and mentors. A second cohort of awardees from our second Open Call (15 November 2017 – 15 January 2018) with 24 teams can be found here>>.
Project profiles can be found in the WEAR Project – Call 1 membership section of the WEAR Network. Each project’s page contains a description, activities, service offering, enabling technologies, team members and their relationships with others in the ecosystem, along with news and feeds of their progress. Alternatively you may click on the links in each project section below to reach the project’s individual network page.
(*Please note that certain information is only available to registered users. Register here to join the WEAR Sustain network for full access.)

Brawas
A smart headphone with a mood-based music recommender.
Airlief (formerly Breafree)
An environmentally friendly mask that provides air purification in a socially acceptable manner
Breath!
Wearable devices for capturing respiration
BRIA
Materials-tech collaborations, products and installations
Closed Loop Smart Athleisure Fashion
Collection focused on afterlife of electronic garments and potential recyclability
Constructing Connectivity
A creative stroke rehabilitation method
iBreve
The Wearable that fights stress
ID Labs
Creating Practical and Fashionable Solutions using Art & Technology
KOBA Maßschneiderei
Electronic textile tailor shop for custom-made wearable technology garments and accessories
Meditation Lab Team
Meditation Lab Experimenter Kit for monitoring and optimizing meditation
mi.mu gloves
Making music with gesture
MycoTEX
A fully biodegradable textile
Quietude
Jewellery & accessories that enhance the experience of deaf women in a sound-oriented world
RideQ
Wearable horseback riding instructor with interactive real time feedback
Sensewear
Smart clothes and accessories inspired to sensory therapies
Solemaker.io
Ultra personalised shoes
Textile Reflections
Affordances and advances of robotic textiles in wearables
The Anthropocene Project
The Anthropocene project is a collaborative venture in which the use of a smart belt in a location-based alternate reality game about survival and human effects on the environment, will raise awareness of the covert data collection and personal privacy.
Tinker Design
Fashion technology focussed on comfort, emotional health and wellbeing
Wearflex
Smart shirt with a flexible screen that shows smartphone notifications
Wisp.me
Wearable intimacy with sensual technology to enhance intimate experience