The Heated Earthen Garments is a research-by-design study that aims to incorporate earth as a flexible, wearable substance directly onto the human body, while accounting for the thermal mass of earth materials for localized heat transfer.

Localized thermal environments have been shown to not only reduce operational emissions from the built environment, but also provide thermal alliesthesia, also known as thermally pleasurable experiences. In parallel, natural earth- and bio-based materials can offer healthy and accessible materials in immediate environments. This work develops a wearable earth-based substance that can be heated, culminating in a wearable artifact that can provide localized heat, with the goal of ultimately creating a secondary skin layer for a radically pleasurable and healthy environment.