Exploring Innovative Ideas for Future Wearables with Joanna Berzowska

Exploring Innovative Ideas for Future Wearables with Joanna Berzowska

Categories: Lectures and Seminars | Intended for

Wednesday, November 02, 2016

9:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Room 5110 (1125@Carleton) Human Computer Interaction Building

1125 Colonel By Dr, Ottawa, ON

Contact Information

Jenna Hobin, 613-520-7606, jenna.hobin@carleton.ca

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$0.00

About this Event

Host Organization: 1125@Carleton/CLUE

This 2.5 hour workshop will explore innovative ideas for future wearables, specifically focusing on the potential of "smart" textiles that deliver sensing capabilities and visual display directly inside of garments. Instead of attaching a sensor to your body or to a garment, the garment itself can become the sensor and actuator. This offers significant opportunities in health and wellbeing, sports, medical monitoring, fashion, and entertainment. We will begin with a short presentation about the science, technology, and manufacturing capabilities for functional textiles and then move on to several directed brainstorming activities.

Joanna Berzowska is Associate Professor of Design and Computation Arts Department at Concordia University in Montreal [http://www.concordia.ca/design] as well as the founder and research director of XS Labs [http://www.xslabs.net], a design research studio with a focus on innovation in the fields of electronic textiles and reactive garments. She is also the Head of Electronic Textiles at OMsignal [http://www.omsignal.com], a wearable and smart textile platform that enables leading fashion brands to design smart apparel. A core component of her research involves the development of enabling methods, materials, and technologies, focusing on innovation in composite functional fibers, soft electronics, and additive manufacturing. Joanna’s art and design work has been shown in the V&A in London, the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum in NYC, the Millennium Museum in Beijing, the Art Directors Club in NYC, the Australian Museum in Sydney, NTT ICC in Tokyo, SIGGRAPH, ISEA, SIGCHI, and Ars Electronica Center in Linz among others. She holds a graduate degree from the MIT Media Lab. She lectures internationally about the field of electronic textiles and related social, cultural, aesthetic, and political issues.

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