Dressing up for space

The NewSpace economy is looking for new ways of communicating space. In an age crowded with digital innovation mainly involving the movements of our fingers, the space community must find a new language to entice the public and help explain why space research and its impact is so important. Space exploration offers fantastic scenarios of experimentation that can be transformed and reinterpreted by the language of fashion – an area that is far removed from the scientific world and yet has an important role to play by finding new applications for clothing technologies that can enhance the comfort and performance of people who wear them. The task of the designer in this context is to be a mediator between science and culture, finding a common language that can help the hi-tech research and industrial worlds communicate and collaborate. A ‘design vision’ might be a key to interpreting the signs of change in our society and translating them into new values and our task at Politecnico di Milano is to empower students with this vision.