Carole Collet

Carole Collet (MA) is Course Director, MA Textile Futures at Central Saint Martins College. 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, Boussac, 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.

Recent exhibitions include:

“Tactile Shadows”, “Touch Me, Design and Sensation” Victoria & Albert Museum, June 2005: a collection of textile designs which explores the emotional values of tactility.

"Innovate, Predicate, Fabricate", Curator of a Showcase of Innovative Textiles at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design", Royal Society of Arts, March 2005

“Toile de Hackney”, Surface Design Show, February 2005: a collection of interactive domestic textiles which change colour in response to movement.

“Remote Home”, Science Museum, London 2003: an interactive installation produced in collaboration with Tobi Schneidler, Smart Studio, Interactive Institute, Sweden.