The Latest Feature
The Latest Feature
Slow reports on art, materials, and the systems behind them.
We publish monthly or bi-monthly long-form features and research notes.
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Synapses in the Weft: When Smart Textiles Start Sensing the World for Us
Shape-memory alloy doesn’t “animate” cloth; it gives it posture—muscle inside weave, a remembered stance. Conductive polymer fibres act less like decoration than nerves, translating touch into pulses that can be stored, compared, and interpreted.
And fibre-optic weaving turns illumination into a kind of gaze: light arriving from within, thickening when you approach, flickering as if attention had tempo. You come to look, and suddenly you’re unsure whether you’re the observer—or the measured. It All Begins Here

