Touch_Me: Installation textile interactive

The interactive carpet Touch_Me by Juliette Sallin (HEAD–Geneva) is intended to highlight the mediatory qualities of textiles by incorporating electronic means to render the textile object more expressive and ludic. Touch_Me employs a new technological process – shape memory wires – placed inside small textile elements sewn onto the surface of the carpet, resembling an agglomeration of bulbs or a bed of mushrooms. Sensors within the textile send an electronic impulse to the shape memory wires. As soon as they detect any pressure, they raise the textile elements and thus make the carpet move.