Kerri Wallace

is a textile designer currently challenging the potential of wearable display technologies in textile design for fashion, sportswear and related products.  Her current research 'Motion Response Sportswear' aims to revolutionise fitness apparel, designing responsive textiles, producing body and motion sensitive wearable ‘displays’.  Kerri is working to advance the technology of thermo chromic ink and digital print technology in conjunction with sportswear companies and specialist industrial research agencies.

Kerri uses correlations between heart rate and body temperature as a trigger for change and form of visual monitoring, creating evolutional interactive textiles, inspired by metamorphosis, mutations, biomimetics and mimicry, characteristics informed by animal and human species. ‘Biomimetics' for example is a science that looks to nature to solve human problems by imitating nature's greatest ideas and applying these concepts to technology and design.  Her project is supported by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and Kerri was a 2006-7 award holder.