YUCATECAN ELECTRIC
An evening dress combining yucatecan embroidery and electronics
Yucatecan Electric is the result of a collaboration I had with Theda (now Nikté), a fashion brand that creates contemporary fashion with Mayan Embroidery and Cooperativa Flor de Margarita, a mayan cooperative of textile artisans who are growing their skillsets in yucatecan mayan embroidery.
GOAL
The aim of the project was to exchange the knowledge in soft electronics I had learned at Fabricademy, with the embroidery craftsmanship from the artisans of the cooperative. More specifically, I thought that it would be interesting to share with them the knowledge on EMBROIDERING CIRCUITS that I had learned and practiced during Fabricademy, and see what kind on reaction it would get from the artisans.
Wearable interfaces are on the verge of becoming mainstream in the global fashion and sports market, and the idea of making this technological knowledge available to a group of artisans is for me critical to ENABLE DIVERSE SOCIO-CULTURAL GROUPS SHAPE NEW TECHNOLOGY.
PROCESS
TALK ABOUT THE MAKING OF BULLET POINTS
