Organized by Noumena in collaboration with INDUSTRY-From Needs to Solutions, Fira Barcelona and IED Barcelona.

The Challenge of RESHAPE V focuses on future applications of Wearable Tech and Smart Products. We look forward to receiving project proposals aimed at questioning, in a constructive and creative way, the role of technology in the definition of new paradigms for your society.

Reshape competition is divided in two categories.

Wearable Technology - The submitted project needs to present a clear prototyping design methodology, to involve digital manufacturing technologies, and to highlight qualities of safety and recyclability, suggesting the potential of being reused or composted.  Interdisciplinary processes, experimental approaches, and innovative design strategies become necessary for those striving to be the pioneers of this digital age.

Smart Product Category - Reshape challenges makers and designers to present a product able to function as the mediating factor between the forces shaping our environments, and monitoring, sensing, and interacting with the physical and digital world. Proposals must take into consideration the social impact of their production and consumption cycle. 

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Our Scientific Committee is composed by a team of top international experts in the fields of Wearable, Fashion and Manufacturing with diverse backgrounds from the professional world to academia.

  • Bradly Dunn Klerk: Formerly positioned as CEO of Iris van Herpen, Couture Fashion label well known for her innovative experiments with materials, techniques and technologies. He is responsible for all the IvH Couture shows, exhibitions and international media.
  • Anastasia Pistofidou: Director of the FabTextile research lab and the Fabricademy, a new textile and technology academy. Anastasia combines the analogue and the digital towards applied research focused on new materials, art and textiles.
  • Valerie Bergeron: Director of Materfad-materials centre of Barcelona, at the FAD- Fostering Arts and- Design. Valérie also coordinates, for FAD, permanent and temporary exhibitions related to Materfad activities and lectures on architecture, museography and innovative materials for different professional and educational programs.

JURY MEMBERS

The Reshape jury panel is composed of an international experts representatives from fashion industry, Product industry and Education fields. The Jury panel will evaluate the submitted projects from RESHAPE19| cognified matter competition, selecting three winners and two honorable mentions for each category.

  • Behnaz Farahi; Architecture, Fashion and Interaction Designer: Behnaz is an Annenberg Fellow and PhD candidate in Interdisciplinary Media Arts and Practice at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. She has a Bachelor’s and two Masters degrees in Architecture.
  • Julia Weems, Fashion School Director at IED Barcelona:  Julia  Weems began  her career studying  such disciplines as Art  History, Costume, Fashion and Textile Design between New York and  Barcelona. Currently she is the Fashion School Director at IED Barcelona Escola Superior de Disseny
  • Alberto Lovisetto; 3D project coordinator presso Moncler:  He works for Dainese since 2008 and created the last technical motorbike  and ski wear  collections. Always  been technology enthusiastic  immediately tried to utilize innovative  instruments in order to speed up his work results. Currently he is working for Moncler as 3D project coordinator.
  • ZAP & BUJ;  Elena Zapico and Raquel Buj Co-founders of ZAP& BUJ, both are architects and fashion designers: ZAP & BUJ wins the Samsung Ego Innovation Project (Sept. 2017) with the Wall Dress project at the MBFWM (Mercedez Benz Fashion Week Madrid). In 2018 they are finalists in the Vogue Who´s on Next 2018 award, they parade again at EGO-MBFWM Spring-Summer 19 to present their “Growing Landscapes” collection and win the Matadero-Madrid EmprendeModa scholarship for emerging initiatives in the industry, in addition to being selected for the IDB Ibero-American Design Biennial 18. In 2019 they are again finalists in the Who's on Next 2019 contest of Vogue; they design scenery and costumes for the performance “I imagined 5 bodies and none was mine” within the Veranos de la Villa-Madrid program and continue teaching at various Spanish universities. Currently preparing the Fashion Futures Master: Smart Skins & Wearable Technology in the Innovation Lab-IED Madrid.

PRIZE: Reshape V edition will shortlist three winners, respectively from the Wearable technology and Smart product category.  Additionally, two honourable mentions will be nominated for each category. The first winning designers will be awarded two scholarships1 (value: 6.200 Euro) for the Design for Wearables postgraduate at IED Barcelona, and a financial prize up to 1.000 Euro.

Moreover, all selected talents, winners and honourable mentions, will have the chance to participate in Reshape Forum, with a free ticket pass at INDUSTRY From Need to Solution Event (overall ticket price: 400 Euro). At the Reshape Forum, designers will meet relevant industry leaders, presenting their proposals to the INDUSTRY and Reshape audience. Additionally, shortlisted projects will be showcased at Reshape Exhibition and invited to the Reshape Networking night.

  • 1. 100% Scholarship program for the Wearable technology category 1st winner, 50% Scholarship program for the Smart Product category 1st winner. The inscription fee is not included.