ErGeeBee

The Project

ErGeeBee is a speculative/future-oriented project that explores fashion- and textile innovations beyond embedded tech, whilst using tech. Rather than adding new technologies to garments, it investigates how existing textile properties can be activated through the environments we already inhabit—specifically: the club.

In this fashion experience, pattern design, textile technologies and colour theory come together to create dynamic interactions with RGB light. Using specific patterns and colours on a black base, the prints appear to shift or move under coloured lighting. These effects are not digitally rendered but emerge through the relationship between garment, space, and light.

Design Background

This project is inspired by posthuman design thinking, specifically relationality and working-with natural nonhuman properties to create design. In the fashion experience the textile responds to their environment, showing how textile design can amplify and be amplified by context. With ErGeeBee, we aim to open up a less-explored field within Fashion Tech—one that doesn’t just insert tech into textiles, but lets textile interact with the technologies that already shape our lives. The result is both speculative and grounded: a glimpse of what fashion could become when we design in relation. What could happen if clothing was made in relation to the spaces we exist in.