resources: a living toolkit

Visuals

Some of our visual references live on Pinterest: textures, kinetic fashion, soft robotics, responsive forms and sculptures.

Jessica Riskin, "Machines in the Garden" — on the tension between technology and nature.
Donna Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto", blurring human, animal, and machine.
Karen Barad, "Meeting the Universe Halfway", how matter and meaning are entangled.
Jane Bennett, "Vibrant Matter", finding life in non-living things.
Tim Ingold, "The Textility of Making", craft as thinking with materials.
SIGGRAPH UnRavel Fashion Event 2007

Hussein Chalayan: fashion designer known for infusing technologies
Lucy McRae: body architect
Anouk Wipprecht FashionTech: Dutch designer and innovator
Fungi Anarchist Designers
syntopia 1: using a hand-based augmented reality (AR) framework a filament-structure is spun by hand which gradually envelopes its maker
She Builds Robots: Youtuber who blends engineering and fashion
Jack Irving: avant-garde designer who’s worked with Gaga, made kinetic tentacles dress, and more!

The proceedings of both are published in the ACM Digital Library (SIGGRAPH Conference Papers 2025, SIGGRAPH Art Papers 2025) – Dartmouth has subscriptions to all these journals but you must be on eduroam or the Dartmouth VPN to get access to the papers. Note that many have videos in the supplemental materials.
A few examples from recent years:

Adafruit: Adafruit manufactures a number of electronics products and produces a number of learning resources, including written tutorials, introductory videos for beginners.
Tiny Circuits: Tiny Circuits makes tiny open source electronics to be used to create miniature electronic projects.
Sparkfun: Sparkfun sells open-source hardware and has resources and tutorials on its website.
Shapeways: Shapeways is a 3D printing marketplace that has tutorials on creating your own file to be printed.
Thingiverse: Thingiverse is an open-source 3D printing library that includes tutorials, software, and printable files.
Tinkercad: Tinkercad lets you create 3D digital designs and has tutorials as well.
Sketchup: Sketchup is a 3D drawing tool that can help with creating 3D printing files.
Rhinoceros: Rhinoceros is a commercial 3D computer graphics and CAD software that also includes tutorials

Weekly spotlight on student experiments and process photos on IG, TBA!
Join our Groupme to find collaborators & exchange feedback!
Makerspace workshops/co-working sessions (Schedule TBA! Fill out our interest form :)
Makerspace hours in general are a great resource!