The Climate dress by Diffus

The Climate Dress is made of conductive embroidery, over hundred of tiny LED lights inserted into the embroidey, a CO2 sensor and an Arduino Lilypad microprocessor. The LEDs visualize the level of CO2 in the nearby surroundings and are powered trough the embroidery!
For The Climate Dress we used soft conductive thread that has a similar consistence to the kind of thread used for traditional and industrial embroidery production. This way it is possible to make embroidery that become more than an esthetical element in clothing and interior textiles.

The embroidery becomes functional conveying electricity and computer information and thereby give "power to the dress". The dress senses the CO2 concentration in the air, then accordingly creates diverse light patterns varying from slow, regular light pulsations to short and hectic. The technology, which integrates ”soft circuits” into the production of embroidery, is an innovative process. It is the result of a fruitful collaboration between Copenhagen based design studio diffus, Swiss embroidery company Forster-Rohner, the Danish research-based limited company Alexandra Institute and finally the Danish School of Design.

Credit:
Concept an production: Diffus Design (Hanne Louise Johannesen and Michel Guglielmi).
Fashion Design: Tine Jensen
Technique: Alexandra Institute and innovation network Infinit.
(Rikke Koch, innovation consultant / Jerker Hammarberg, R&D Engineer / Jesper Nielsen, R&D Engineer).
Embroidery: Forstner Rohner AG.
(Jan Zimmerman)
Sewing: Karin Eggert Hansen and Marija Andonovska
With the participation of the Danish Design School:
Students: Anakarin Lundgren, Carolin Gresbach, Liza Frederika Åslund, Maya Fabrin  Born, Nancy Kaiser, Natascha Heller, Sarah März.

Hais stylist: Morten Kongsbak (Agence  Scoop  Models)
Model: Anne Sophie Fioritto Thompsen (Elite Models)
Photography: Anni Lauesen

More info in:
http://www.diffus.dk/pollutiondress/intro.htm