The paradigm of smart textiles has shifted beyond electronics and computational technology. The awareness for preserving the natural environment through the gentle imprint of raw materials, reduced energy consumption, and applied principles of design ethics asks for the search for alternative relations between humans and the designed materiality. Subsequently, “designerly” care for the natural environment opens new research trajectories for material design and innovation questioning established hierarchies between humans and more-than-human subjects and objects. In this context, research methodologies have become more comprehensive; they are open to cross- and trans-disciplinary methodologies and move objective knowledge to situated research.