Fashioning and ageing population: smart non-woven textiles for adaptive insulation

“全球人口老龄化为个人和社会带来了重大机遇和挑战;设计干预措施加上医疗和辅助技术的进步，预计将作出重大贡献，支持这一人口群体过上充实和积极的生活。创意产业将在政府政策的实施中发挥关键作用，为日益老龄化带来的人口结构变化做好准备人口战略重点，如新的医疗保健系统和社会，物理，技术连接借鉴设计，在其最广泛的意义上，以确保通过解决吸收，敏感性和隐私的障碍，从新技术的机会资本化（资料来源：《老龄化人口的未来》，2016年）。建筑环境的设计定位于最大化身体移动性并导致增加的身体活动水平，通过以人为本的设计方法和材料/数字技术的进步，改善健康和生活质量。例如，我们设想房间可以自主感知和改变其气候和物理条件，以满足居住者的需求，以确保舒适性和移动性等优先事项;本项目将这一主张扩展到服装和时装设计。这项工作解决了由穿着者微气候中的湿气积聚引起的生理不适，其中当前的气流和隔热调节行为策略（例如在工作休息周期期间添加或移除层和处理紧固件）对由于年龄或残疾而具有有限移动性的个人提出了重大挑战。传统服装系统的热性能和气流性能依赖于穿着者进行调节;该项目的目标是创造一种新型的智能无纺布，与电子纺织品明显不同，以增强身体活动的体验。该项目将开发一种新型的无纺布，能够使用InotekTM自主适应热和气流阻力，一种仿生吸湿短纤维，其响应于环境中的湿气浓度水平而可逆地改变其长度。"

"A global ageing population presents significant opportunities and challenges to individuals and society; design interventions coupled with advances in medical and assistive technologies are expected to make a significant contribution that will support full and active lives for this demographic.The creative industries are set to play a critical role in the implementation of government policy in preparation for the demographic shift brought about by a growing ageing population. Strategic priorities such as novel health care systems and social, physical, technological connectivity draw upon design, in its broadest sense, to ensure capitalisation of opportunities from new technologies by addressing barriers to uptake, sensitivity and privacy (source: Future of an Ageing Population, 2016).Within this context, design of the build environment is positioned to maximise physical mobility and lead to increased physical activity levels, better health and quality of life through the intersection of human centred design methods and advances in material/digital technologies. For example, we imagine rooms that can autonomously sense and alter their climatic and physical conditions in response to the needs of the occupants to ensure priorities such as comfort and mobility; this project widens this proposition to include garment and fashion design.This work addresses physiological discomfort caused by moisture buildup in the wearer's microclimate where current behavioural strategies for airflow and insulation adjustment (such as adding or remove layers and handling fasteners during work rest cycles) present significant challenges to individuals with limited mobility due to age or disability. Thermal and airflow properties of conventional clothing systems rely on the wearer for adjustment; the ambition is to create a new class of smart non-woven textile, significantly distinct from electronic textiles, to enhance the experience of physical activity.This project will develop a novel non woven textile capable of autonomous, physical adaptation of thermal and airflow resistance using InotekTM, a biomimetic hygroscopic staple fibre which reversibly alters its length in response to levels of moisture vapour concentration in the environment."