"What is the Future for Textiles?"
20 March 2007, 6-8pm
Textile Futures Research Group, University of the Arts London in collaboration with the ICA presents the Textile Futures Salon. The first in this series of seminars and workshops will ask the question, “What is the Future For Textiles?”. Fashion designer, Katherine Hamnett; founder of the Future Laboratory, Martin Raymond; architect, Ian Ritchie; textiles author and curator, Sarah E.Braddock Clarke; and interaction & textile designer, Rachel Wingfield will be in the hot seat to respond, chaired by Dr Jane Harris, member and director of the Textile Futures Research Group.
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Katharine Hamnett Katharine Hamnett is a prolific fashion designer, acclaimed for the past four decades, her latter works call attention to the processes of textile production and interrogates their detrimental effects on both environment and ethical labour standards.
Hamnett's collections can be seen as interventions. In 2003 her Autumn Winter Womenswear ... Rachel Wingfield Rachel Wingfield is currently a Research Fellow and Lecturer on the MA Textile Futures course at Central Saint Martins, School of Fashion and Textiles. She is also co-founder of the design research studio Loop.pH.
Loop.pH specialise in the design and research of responsive textiles & structures for the built environment. It is a ... Martin Raymond Martin Raymond is the Co-founder and Futures Director at the Future Laboratory. He edits Viewpoint magazine and is also author of The Tomorrow People: Future consumers and how to read them today (Financial Times Prentice Hall). He is also a regular contributor on trends and business to the BBC.
Born in 1961 in Ireland, Martin Raymond moved to ... Ian RitchieIan Ritchie is the founder of Ian Ritchie Architects in London, and co-founder of the special design engineering firm Rice Francis Ritchie (RFR) in Paris. His interventions throughout the 1980s explored fabric and tensile structures, light transmitting fabrics, high performance glass systems, robotics and light memory coatings. Ian Ritchie's firm ... Sarah E. Braddock Clarke Sarah E. Braddock Clarke is a writer, curator and lecturer. She is co-author of Techno Textiles, SportsTech and Techno Textiles. She is a freelance writer, curator and lecturer whose main focus is new materials and their applications to fashion and art. Her books (co-authored with Marie O'Mahony) include Techno Textiles (1998), SportsTech (2002) ... |
