Carole Collet

Carole Collet is Course Director for the MA Textile Futures and Researcher at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design and Associate Director of the Textile Futures Research Unit. Carole is currently leading the Nobel Textiles project sponsored by the Medical Research Council (MRC) UK, which links Nobel laureates to leading Textiles and Fashion designers. Nobel Textiles involves a journey into the interface between science and design, a dialogue between leading researchers in both fields.  

Carole is a textile Designer and consultant in the area of textile print, R&D, trend forecasting, sustainable design, and intelligent textiles. Her consultancy work has included clients such as DMC, B oussac, Koji Tatsuno, Hoechst, Global consultants, Ian Ritchie architects. Carole's current academic research "Poetic Textiles For Smart Homes" is a design quest which aims at developing innovative textiles for the domestic market. By investigating issues of aesthetics and functions, the project aims at mapping out new possibilities for textile to take a leading role in redefining our intimate and emotional relationship with "smart homes". The design process explores a combination of new technologies (intelligent textiles, new materials) together with more traditional and low tech methods of production to generate new "hybrid" designs. Sustainable values underpin both the design process and the design outcomes.