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Iris van Herpen

Spatial Construction

Biology as design

FAS–SYS–HER

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Biology as design

Iris van Herpen

FAS–SYS–HER

Biology as design

Index Code:

FAS–SYS–HER

Orgin:

Wamel, Netherlands / Paris, France

Field Notes:

biology as design · digital craft as emotion · motion as organism

Defining Moment:

Fall 2011 — First 3D-printed dress shown; body merged with code

Iris van Herpen

(

2007 – present

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Van Herpen fuses biology and digital craft.

Her works emerge from algorithmic lace and 3D-printed organza — garments that breathe, shimmer, and defy material limits.

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She treats fashion as living sculpture, where technology becomes body, and form feels alive.

Structural Focus

Process as Form

The method of making defines the structure. Repetition, accumulation, or procedure becomes the visible logic of the work.

In Iris van Herpen’s work, this approach appears where fabrication systems generate bodily interaction.

Position

Process as Form

The method of making defines the structure. Repetition, accumulation, or procedure becomes the visible logic of the work.

In Iris van Herpen’s work, this approach appears where fabrication systems generate bodily interaction.

Constructed Surfaces

Surfaces are built through layering, joining, and controlled fabrication.

Systems of Clarity

Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.

Space is structured through openings, intervals, and boundary conditions.

Material behavior governs form through weight, resistance, and constraint.

Structure holds the work through rules, joins, and controlled relationships between parts.

Form is constructed around the body through material, proportion, and movement.

Current practice engages inherited structures under present conditions.

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Structual Relations

The following practices are connected through shared structural decisions in form, material, and spatial logic.

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