"From January to April 2009 the project „Public Receptors: Be-neath the Skin“ was announced by Van Allen Institute in New York. The project is a textile installation by New York Prize Fellow Gabi Schillig, a conceptual artist and architect based in Berlin. Schillig’s wearable spatial structures mediate between private users and public spaces, provoking new relationships between bodies, clothing, and the built environment. Redefin-ing the garment as tactile architecture, Schillig explores the potential for soft geometries and surfaces of textiles, conven-tionally associated with individual bodies and human scale, to generate alternative arrangements of social space and modes of interaction in the urban fabric."

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