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4D Knit Dress: Transforming Style
MIT Self-Assembly Lab x Ministry of Supply

MIT Self-Assembly Lab Team:
Sasha Mckinlay, Danny Griffin, Sofia Chen, Lavender Tessmer, Natalie
Pearl, Susan Williams, Agnes Parker, Jared Laucks, Skylar Tibbits

Ministry of Supply Team:
Jarlath Mellett, Alessandra Vasi, Ryan Connary, Gihan
Amarasiriwardena

Typical garment construction requires a designer to build a 2D
pattern, then cut and sew from 2D fabric - yielding excess waste,
additional cost/labor and bulky seams that don't always follow human
anatomy. New innovation in 3D knitting - akin to 3D printing - has
allowed fabric variation and standardized 3D shaping - however
customized shaping of knitted garments to fit anyone's unique body or
style hasn't been possible.

4D Knit Dress, combines several technologies - heat-activated yarns,
computerized knitting and 6-axis robotic activation to create a
garment that is sculpted to create a personalized fit or style.
Heat-activated yarns are embedded within a unique knit structure to
create controlled transformation, while maintaining softness, stretch
and resilience. Using an efficient tubular knitting technique, a
6-axis robotic arm (commonly used in automotive manufacturing) heats
specific areas to take-in - mimicking the design process of pinning &
tucking used in traditional dress tailoring - transforming the dress
in real-time to create a perfect fit or a unique look.

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Growing Islands 4D Knit Dress 3D Knit BioSuit(tm) Haptiknit Liquid Metal
Printing Personalized Knit Masks Climate-Active Textiles Active
Textile Tailoring Active Patterned Scarves Liquid to Air: Pneumatic
Objects Liquid Printed Pneumatics Liquid Printed Products Rapid
Liquid Printing Liquid Printed Natives Active Shoes Liquid Printed
Textile Shoes Active Textile Jamming Bodies Slip-Form Rock Jamming
Modular and Morphable Jamming Rock Printing Programmable Materials
Transformable Meeting Spaces Transformable Screen Wall Active
Auxetics Programmable Table 4D Printing Fluid Crystallization
Self-Replicating Spheres Fluid Lattices Aerial Assembly
Fluid-Assembly Chair Self-Assembly Cell Phone Hyperform Self-folding
Proteins Autonomous Mass Assembly BioMolecular Self-Assembly
Self-Assembly Line DNA Printing C-Strands Macrobot & Decibot Logic
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