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The paper proposes a definition of Material design as a hybrid practice and describes the intersection area between two emerging phenomenon regarding materials for design namely, ICS Materials and DIY-Materials – by depicting the theoretical background supported by relevant examples and related works and providing the case studies developed by the authors and their students: L-ink, i.e. an experiment on DIY conductive Ink in order to augment paper as a substrate material for interactive, iterative, and flexible material interfaces; and Sound Textile, i.e. a sound installation using the material properties of metal threads in a textile fabric. Finally, the paper discusses further development, considering the ability of the case study to combine the properties of two materials pushing the imagination to new horizons: making wearable mobile phones that can be bent or open-ended and ephemeral interfaces that could be customized and transformed at any stage of the product lifecycle.
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We thank the students Gaia Bianco and Lilian Dedio, and Camilo Ayala Garcia who co-supervised the L-ink project. Stefano Parisi’s research has been funded by Fondazione F.lli Confalonieri.
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Parisi, S., Holzbach, M., Rognoli, V. (2020). The Hybrid Dimension of Material Design: Two Case Studies of a Do-It-Yourself Approach for the Development of Interactive, Connected, and Smart Materials. In: Ahram, T., Karwowski, W., Vergnano, A., Leali, F., Taiar, R. (eds) Intelligent Human Systems Integration 2020. IHSI 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1131. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39512-4_140
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