Catalytic Clothing
Project summary
A public experiment between Fashion and Science - our endeavour to purify the air we breathe.
Catalytic Clothing seeks to explore how clothing and textiles can be used as a catalytic surface to purify air, employing existing technology in a new way. It is the brainchild of artist/designer Professor Helen Storey MBE and chemist Tony Ryan - people from very different worlds whose minds have come together over recent years in highly successful art/science collaborations.
A series of cultural and art interventions will bring this forthcoming technology into the public domain, seeking to engage people. The exclusive full length version of our film (featuring, and with thanks to, model Erin O’Connor and Radiohead) introduces our public experiment between the worlds of Fashion and Science. This is our endeavour to purify the air we all breathe.
Catalytic Clothing emerged during Wonderland, which used 'dissolving dresses' to explore new ways to dispose of plastics (seen by 11 million people). Extending this collaborative model, Helen Storey aims to use clothing technology to improve health, and to directly engage the public and industry in its delivery.
Join us. Shape your world.
Outputs
- Exhibition by Helen Storey, from 2015: Catalytic Clothing - Teaching and Learning
- Art and design item by Helen Storey and Tony Ryan, from 2012: Catalytic Clothing - Red Planet Dress
- Catalytic Clothing - Beyond Green Festival, Amsterdam. In: Beyond Green, 8 November 2011, Amsterdam.
- Art and design item by Helen Storey and Tony Ryan, from 2011: Catalytic Clothing
- Art and design item by Helen Storey and Tony Ryan, from 2011: Catalytic Clothing - Field of Jeans
- Art and design item by Helen Storey and Tony Ryan, from 2010: Catalytic Clothing - HERSELF.