Funded Teams :: Open Call 2
(March 2018 – September 2018)
24 projects have been awarded funding, following the WEAR Sustain’s second Open Call for collaborative innovation. These projects are embarking on an intensive 6 month programme, between March and September 2018, of sustainable and ethical prototyping development with the support of allocated hubs and mentors. Information on the first cohort of awardees from our first Open Call can be found here>>.
Project profiles are in the WEAR Project – Call 2 membership section of the WEAR Network. Over the coming months profiles will be updates with descriptions, activities, service offerings, enabling technologies, teams (and their relationships with mentors, hubs and others in the ecosystem), along with news and feeds of their progress and outcomes. Alternatively please click on the links below to reach projects’ individual network pages.
(*Please note that certain information is only available to registered users. Register here to join the WEAR Sustain network for full access.)
PoplarShoe
A smart shoe made of a bio-waste material.
Funsun Kids
A textile wearable tool to help children and their carers become more aware of sun intake.
Embodied Interactions
Alive-like style free companions.
FutureJewels
Creating Wearable Objects with Playful Interactions.
ByBorre
Development of garments with an interknitted chip to provide insights into the sustainable development of a garment.
Edera Safety
EDERA Safety is an interdisciplinary start up, focussing on safety design.
BeneficialWorks
Guiding the blind and visually impaired reliably and precisely through touch, utilising a wearable haptic device called the WAYBAND™
BETAlight
Personal wearable light space.
Wearable Energy – Textile Batteries
The goal of this project is to develop a new way of battery integration into wearable smart textiles.
Sheltersuit
Sheltersuit foundation offers warmth, safety and comfort to homeless people
Enabables
AssisTECH - E-textile Kit for people with disabilities.
Touch Craft -> Towan
Playful, eTextile Surfaces for Touch Communication.
Sara & Sarah
Designers specialising in smart textiles: Lit Lace for Performance
MOGU Leather
MOGU Leather is an alternative to animal leather, not a replacement.
Smart Fashion Production
Development of Smart, Digital and Local Fashion Production Technology.
Data_able
Empowering local fashion designers with 3D software toolkits, for rapid client customisation to grow local talent & economies.
HILO
HILO is your local smart manufacturer producing customisable conductive yarn.
BB Studio
The Great Wave - an eco wearable immersive story. Costume embedded haptics with Virtual Reality for multi-sensory experiences.
Dynaback Team
A connected t-shirt to help back problems through better movement.
Healthcare Fiber Technolgy
Innovative textile biosensors to monitoring human sweat
Stealthy
A modular jewellery collection, designed to tackle vitamin D deficiency in women before, during and post pregnancy.
Flexo
A wearable soft robotic design for therapeutic use.
Air Guru
Nano technologies for circular fashion - a smart scarf to reuse fashion waste and defend people from pollution.