The workshop with Joanna Berzowska is over, and it was quite a hectic week. Reports will follow, but for now – here’s some pictures, taken by Kristina Aas and Hilde Hauan. Notice how no one ever looks at the camera? A week of intense concentration…
TEXTILE FUTURES SALON – ‘WHAT FUTURE FOR LIVING TEXTILES’
Institute for Contemporary Arts, Thursday 23rd & Friday 24th October 2008
Tickets available form the ICA, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH – 020 7930 3647 / www.ica.org.uk
A series of talks and panels over two days, will explore how textile designers inhabit other design fields and cohabit with the world of science. In recent years the potential of nano- and bio- technology has caught the imagination of a new generation of textile makers, particularly in the fields of fashion and architecture. The science is here and the Textile Futures Research Group, University of the Arts London, is keen to interrogate. How much is our discipline changing and are we as designers and consumers ready for the next material revolution?
Click here for full programme and speaker biographies.
Presentations, talks and panels (2.30- 4.30 & evening 6.30-7.30) include:
Day 1: Sponsored by Unilever, exploration of ‘Living Textiles’ in relation to the body, investigating Textile and Fashion Science. Participants include:
Oron Catts, Director of Tissue Culture and Art, Symbiotica, School of Anatomy and Human Biology, University of Western Australia; Suzanne Lee, Director of ‘Biocouture’, author of Fashioning the Future and Senior Research Fellow at Central Saint Martins School of Art & Design (CSM); Clive van Heerden, Director of Design-Led Innovation at Philips Design, Europe; Dr Neil Parry, Science Area Leader, Biotechnology, Unilever Research, UK; Manel Torres, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Fabrican Ltd. and Associate to TFRG; Richard Bonser, Centre for Biomimetics, Reading University; Philip Delamore, Research Fellow in Textile and Fashion Science, London College of Fashion and TFRG. Jane Harris, Director of the Textile Futures Research Group.
Day 2: will explore ‘Living Textiles’ in the context of the Built Environment and our everyday relationship to this. Participants include:
Mark Goulthorpe, Professor of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, director of dECOi atelier and Hyposurface; Mette Ramsgard, Director of the Centre for Interactive Technology in Architecture (CITA), Royal Academy, Copenhagen; Geoffrey Makstutis, Director of Art, Design and Environment, Central Saint Martins (CSM) and TFRG; Neil Spiller, Professor of Architecture and Digital Theory, Bartlett, University College London; Matthew Birchall, Associate Director of Building Engineering Structures for Buro Happold, specialising in fabric long span and lightweight structures; Carole Collet, Research Fellow, Director of MA Design for Textile Futures and Nobel Textiles Project Manager, CSM and TFRG; Caryn Simonson, Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies for Textiles, Chelsea College of Art and Design, and Andrew Sides, Senior Lecturer, Art, Design and Environment,(CSM) - Co Curators of TFRG (CSM); 2ndLife.
KHIB is excited to have Joanna Berzowska for a workshop and lectures, 15. – 19. September: “Electronic textiles and architectual membranes studio is a five-day workshop introduces participants to the idea of electronic textiles and to he principles of soft-circuit design through hands-on demos and experimentation.”
Not your average textile-workshop… Read more at here at KHIBs website.
Transplant, the creative center in Dale in Sunnfjord, arrange workshops and happenings all year around. This summer they will be having workshops in creative graphics, redesign and nomad design, just to mention a few. Take a look at their website at www.transplant.nu for more information.
Tone Saastad has released her research project called Displacements: An Artistic Work Process – There, and Back Again.
You can read it here in Norwegian or English:
Tone Saastad: Forskyvninger (.pdf, 1 954 kb)
Tone Saastad: Displacements (.pdf, 1 942 kb)
You can also buy it through KHIB