For Milan Design Week 2023, Issey Miyake/Milan presents Thinking Design, Making Design: Type-Ⅴ Nature Architects project
A-Poc Able Issey Miyake’s latest collaborative project with Nature Architects looks at design’s role in structure, materiality, and production and how they constitute an all-in-one manufacturing process—revealing the possibilities of the brand’s developing technology. By integrating Nature Architects’ latest design solutions with A-Poc Able Issey Miyake’s design and manufacturing system, this project explores in a series of prototypes, the potential as well as possible innovations of a piece of cloth.
Compared with the conventional way of clothes-making, where a garment is made by cutting out separate parts that constitute the garment and sewing them together, the integration of metamaterials into the A-POC system allows for a variety of more complex pleating techniques that have not been realized before. One of the prototypes developed from this project is a jacket that requires minimal sewing to finish—transforming from a flat fabric into a three-dimensional form in high-temperature steam. To introduce its exploration that goes beyond clothes-making, this project presents prototypes—made from one piece of fabric—of not only a jacket and a dress but also other prototypes with the prospect in fields of furniture, lighting fixtures, or architecture—a glimpse into the aspirations of A-Poc Able Issey Miyake and Nature Architects for the future.
