Marjan Kooroshnia

The 21st century is called the beginning of new textile revolution so the world of textiles needs dynamic designers who can propose and realize intelligent, responsible innovations with strategic thought, leadership and personal vision. My practice and research revolves around interactive textiles, new materials, processes, technology, and technique development.

In recent years, parts of the textile area such as colours are rapidly changing as a result of the introduction of new range of textile materials, so-called smart textiles.

Smart textiles can be defined as the materials and structures that sense and react to environmental conditions and stimuli, such as those from mechanical, thermal, chemical, electrical, magnetic or other sources.

Thermo-chromic ink is one of these new smart material that change colour in a controlled way when the temperature is diverse. Furthermore, my research focuses on `textile printing technique´ and exploreing the possibilites and limitations of thermo-chromic ink as a material for designing textile surfaces.