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Lector T.R. Nachtigall (Troy)

Professor of Fashion Research & Technology
Email:
t.r.nachtigall@hva.nl
Work address:
Benno Premselahuis, Rhijnspoorplein 1, 1091 GC Amsterdam
Postal address:
Postbus 35,1000 AA Amsterdam
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Troy Nachtigall is a highly experienced Designer and Design Researcher who leads research at the intersection of fashion and technology. He actively seeks out strategic partnerships that will play a crucial role in shaping the future of the textile, clothing, fashion, and footwear industries. Troy is a core member of the Erasmus+ Fashion and Textile Transitions project and the New Textile Ecosystems (New Texeco) Research Community. His practical background in Design and ICT fuels his passion for exploring the data-material relationship through wearable items.

As a Professor at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, he is lector of the Wearable Data Studio, which focuses on the computational fabrication of clothing, shoes, and accessories. Through this research, Troy and his team can delve into the complex adaptive ecosystem of fashion, with a particular focus on data management, design, manufacturing, and use. This has led to the development of physical, digital, and hybrid artifacts and toolkits that promote a material perspective and data-enabled ecosystem lifecycle frameworks.

Troy's research is rooted in the interplay between fashion, spatial design, and architecture, viewed through a digital lens. This inter-scaler foundation is strengthened by his experience as a fashion designer in New York City and Florence, where he worked with brands such as Hugo Boss, Panerai, and Calvin Klein.

Troy's ideas on data as a material have been refined through his research work as a Ph.D. fellow in the Marie Skołdowska-Curie action ArcInTexETN at Eindhoven University of Technology, within Philips Research, and the Design Research Lab of UdK Berlin. He has also refined his research as a Post-doc Researcher in Co-Design and Shape-Changing Objects and Spaces at Aarhus University and at TU/Eindhoven.

  • Bumping Elbows; from 3D Body Scans to 3D Knitting
    Nachtigall, T., & Masini, L. (2024). Bumping Elbows; from 3D Body Scans to 3D Knitting. In M. Wessely, V. Savage, P. Didyk, & J. Martinez (Eds.), Adjunct Proceedings SCF 2024: 9th ACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication July 7 - July 9, 2024 Aarhus, Denmark Article 2 Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3665662.3673267
  • Textile and Fashion Design Considerations in a Digital Era
    Kuijpers, A. A. M., Nachtigall, T. R., & van Bommel, M. (2024). Textile and Fashion Design Considerations in a Digital Era: Technology Shifts Through a Postphenomenological Lens and Cross-disciplinary Interactions. In I. Saloul, S. Berrebi, N. Munawar, & M. Panico (Eds.), AHM Conference 2024: 'Heritage, Memory and Material Culture': Research-Teaching-Society Nexus (pp. 69-74). Amsterdam University Press. http://10.5117/9789048567638/AHM.2024.012
  • Fold, Stand and Drape: Unweaving Physical vs Digital Textile Design Considerations
    Kuijpers, A. A. M., Goveia Da Rocha, B., Van Bommel, M. R., & Nachtigall, T. (2024). Fold, Stand and Drape: Unweaving Physical vs Digital Textile Design Considerations. In L. Ciolfi, & T. Hogan (Eds.), TEI '24: Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3623509.3633351
  • Foot Augmentation 101: Design your own Augmented Experiences
    Wittchen, D., Sabnis, N., Nachtigall, T. R., Mueller, F. F., Strohmeier, P., & Elvitigala, D. S. (2024). Foot Augmentation 101: Design your own Augmented Experiences. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '24). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3623509.3634744
  • Beyond Vision: Designing a ‘digital-self’ through embodied creative interactions
    Nachtigall, T. R., Vonk, T. E., Kresin, F. J., Bartha, E. L., & Southwick, D. (2023). Beyond Vision: Designing a ‘digital-self’ through embodied creative interactions. In Fashion+ : Inclusive articulations and practices in design, communication & development
  • Becoming solar
    Mackey, A., De La Guarda, M. V., Tomico, O., Wakkary, R., Nachtigall, T., & De Waal, M. (2023). Becoming solar: towards more-than-human understandings of solar energy. Temes de Disseny, 2023(39), 248-268. https://doi.org/10.46467/TdD39.2023.248-269
  • Creating an environment to fight the fashion system: Fashion Tech Farm
    Toeters, M., Feijs, L., Nachtigall, T., & Contrechoc, B. (2023). Creating an environment to fight the fashion system: Fashion Tech Farm. In M. Bruns, L.-L. Chen, S. Colombo, J. Hu, S. Kyffin, Y. Lim, O. Vieira, E. J. Raijmakers, L. Rampino, E. Rodriguez Ramirez, D. J. Steffen, & C. Wong (Eds.), Design and Semantics of Form and Movement (DesForM 2023) proceedings (pp. 126-136)
  • Second Skins: Exploring the Challenges and Opportunities for Designing Adaptable Garments Using E-Textile
    Beemer, M., Dils, C., & Nachtigall, T. (2023). Second Skins: Exploring the Challenges and Opportunities for Designing Adaptable Garments Using E-Textile. Engineering Proceedings, 30(1), Article 9. https://doi.org/10.3390/engproc2023030009
  • How textiles open up data as a material in and on the body
    Nachtigall, T. (2022). How textiles open up data as a material in and on the body. XRDS Crossroads, 29(2), 24-28. https://doi.org/10.1145/3571298
  • The 25th Edition of the International Symposium on Wearable Computers
    Roggen, D., Vega, K., Kao, C. H. L., Nachtigall, T., Ward, J. A., & Beigl, M. (2022). The 25th Edition of the International Symposium on Wearable Computers. IEEE Pervasive Computing, 21(2), 105-111. https://doi.org/10.1109/MPRV.2022.3162900
  • Data as a material for fashion
    Nachtigall, T. (2021). Data as a material for fashion: Fashion Research & Technology. Hogeschool van Amsterdam.
  • Making sustainability work
    Bogers, L., Kloppenburg, I., Maldini, I., Nachtigall, T., Oskamp, O., Vlaanderen, A., de Wit, A., van Woerden, A., van Zeijl, M., Niederer, S. (Ed.), & de Gaetano, C. (Ed.) (2021). Making sustainability work: critical making in collaboration with nature. Hogeschool van Amsterdam.
  • Educating the next generation of urban interaction designers
    Ruyg, M., de Waal, M., Ben Allouch, S., Nachtigall, T., & Neumann, A. (2021). Educating the next generation of urban interaction designers. In K. Barnard, M. Ruyg, & M. de Waal (Eds.), Towards media architecture (pp. 9-15). Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences; Media Architecture Institute.
  • Foreword to the 25th edition of ISWC
    Roggen, D., Vega, K., Kao, C. H. L., Nachtigall, T., Beigl, M., Doryab, A., & Lv, Q. (2020). Foreword to the 25th edition of ISWC. Proceedings - International Symposium on Wearable Computers, ISWC, vi.
  • Designing ultra-personalized product service systems
    Nachtigall, T., Mironcika, S., Tomico, O., & Feijs, L. (2020). Designing ultra-personalized product service systems. CoDesign, 16(4), 274-292. https://doi.org/10.1080/15710882.2020.1842454
  • Materializing data: craftsmanship and technology for ultra-personalization
    Nachtigall, T. R. (2019). Materializing data: craftsmanship and technology for ultra-personalization. Technische Universiteit Eindhoven.
  • Exploring mechanical meta-material structures through personalised shoe sole design
    Amorim, D. J. N., Nachtigall, T., & Alonso, M. B. (2019). Exploring mechanical meta-material structures through personalised shoe sole design. In Proceedings: SCF 2019 - ACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication (pp. 1-8) https://doi.org/10.1145/3328939.3329001
  • Encoding materials and data for iterative personalization
    Nachtigall, T., Tomico, O., Wakkary, R., & Van Dongen, P. (2019). Encoding materials and data for iterative personalization. In Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300749
  • From personal to ultra-personalized
    Nachtigall, T. R., Mironcika, S., Feijs, L. M. G., & Tomico Plasencia, O. (2019). From personal to ultra-personalized. In Knowing together - experiental knowledge and collaboration (EKSIG 2019) (pp. 41-55)
  • Oneday shoes: A maker toolkit to understand the role of co-manufacturing in personalization
    Nachtigall, T., Tomico, O., & Wakkary, R. (2019). Oneday shoes: A maker toolkit to understand the role of co-manufacturing in personalization. In TEI 2019 - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction https://doi.org/10.1145/3294109.3295637
  • A five-year review of methods, purposes and domains of the international symposium on wearable computing
    Nachtigall, T., Tetteroo, D., & Markopoulos, P. (2018). A five-year review of methods, purposes and domains of the international symposium on wearable computing. In ISWC 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers (pp. 48-55). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3267242.3267272
  • Making secret pockets
    Nachtigall, T. R., & Andersen, K. (2018). Making secret pockets. In CHI 2018 - Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Vol. 2018-April, pp. 1-6). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3170427.3188611
  • Towards Ultra Personalized 4D Printed Shoes
    Nachtigall, T. R., Tomico, O., Wakkary, R., Wensveen, S., Dongen, P. V., & Noorden, L. T. V. (2018). Towards Ultra Personalized 4D Printed Shoes. In Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-9). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3170427.3174369
  • EVA Moccasin: creating a research archetype to explore shoe use
    Nachtigall, T. (2017). EVA Moccasin: creating a research archetype to explore shoe use. In ISWC '17: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers (Vol. Part F1305, pp. 197-202). https://doi.org/10.1145/3123021.3123077
  • Ultra personalization and textile thinking in interaction design
    Nachtigall, T. (2016). Ultra personalization and textile thinking in interaction design. In UbiComp 2016 Adjunct - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (pp. 958-961). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/2968219.2979142
  • Sole maker : towards ultra-personalised shoe design using voronoi diagrams and 3D printing
    Feijs, L. M. G., Nachtigall, T. R., & Tomico Plasencia, O. (2016). Sole maker : towards ultra-personalised shoe design using voronoi diagrams and 3D printing. In K. Polthier, J. A. Baerentzen, & E. Akleman (Eds.), Proceedings of SMI'2016 Fabrication and Sculpting Event (FASE) (Vol. 2016, pp. 31-40). (Hyperseeing). ISAMA. http://www.geometrysummit.org/program.html
  • 2013 E-Textile swatchbook exchange
    Hertenberger, A., Scholz, B., Contrechoc, B., Stewart, B., Kurbak, E., Perner-Wilson, H., Posch, I., Cabral, I., Qi, J., Childs, K., Kuusk, K., Calder, L., Toeters, M., Kisand, M., Bhömer, M. T., Donneaud, M., Grant, M., Coleman, M., Satomi, M., ... Nachtigall, T. R. (2014). 2013 E-Textile swatchbook exchange: The importance of sharing physical work. In ISWC'14 Adjunct - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers (pp. 77-81). Article 2641276 (Proceedings - International Symposium on Wearable Computers, ISWC). IEEE Computer Society. https://doi.org/10.1145/2641248.2641276
  • Welcome message from the iswc design exhibition chair
    Nachtigall, T. (2014). Welcome message from the iswc design exhibition chair. In Proceedings - International Symposium on Wearable Computers, ISWC (pp. vii)
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