Hybrid culture in design & development wearable technology

03 Aug '05

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This two day International conference will aim to contextualize the future potential of Wearable Technologies in a variety of fields ranging from military application to fine art.

Wearable Futures is an interdisciplinary conference, which aims to bring together practitioners, inventors, and theorists in the field of soft technology and wearable including those concerned with fashion, textiles, sportswear, interaction design, media and live arts, medical textiles, wellness, perception and psychology, IPR, polymer science, nanotechnology, military, and other relevant research strands.

We will be examining how some broad generic questions will be explored in relation to wearable technology including but not restricted to: aesthetics and design, function and durability versus market forces; the desires, needs and realities of wearable technologies; technology and culture; simplicity and sustainability; design for wearability; wearable as theatre and wearable as emotional 'tools'.

Key fundamental questions across the conference in relation to wearable are:

14 - 16 September 2005,
University of Wales,
Newport,
WALES, UK

Keynote Speakers

Suzanne Lee: Senior Research Fellow at Central Saint Martins, Fashion Consultant and author of Fashioning the Future pub Thames and Hudson Sept 2005.

Joanna Berzowska: Artist and Assistant Professor of Design and Computation Arts at Concordia University in Montreal.

Sarah E. Braddock: Clarke, Lecturer, Curator and Writer. Co Author of Techno Textiles, SportsTech and Techno Textiles2 pub 2005.

Chris Baber: University of Birmingham, Reader in Interactive Systems.

For more detail click here: Wearable Futures

University of Wales - Newport

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