James Fraser Royal College of Art / Imperial College London Innovation Design Engineering
re:flex isa shape memory material that can be
programmed to change its form in response to heat. Despite over three
decades of research into shape memory materials, they have still yet to
be widely adopted and are largely invisible in our everyday lives. They
are prohibitively expensive, difficult to obtain and even more difficult
to process. Inspired by natural structures where the material is the
machine, we developed re:flex as a low cost, widely available and more
sustainable shape memory material that can be manufactured at low
temperatures on a large scale. With re:flex we imagine a world where the
materials we use are no longer inert, allowing objects to be reshaped
by users according to their needs. Re :flex
