Press room
Keynotespeakers
Professor Robert J. Young FREngHead of the School of Materials - University of Manchester, UK
Professor Young’s main research interest is the relationships between structure and properties in polymers and composites, publishing over 250 papers and a number of books. He is listed in the ISI HighlyCited.com for his publications in Materials Science. His research has been supported by the EPSRC, industry and the European Union and his interests have extended recently to the field nanotechnology. He has lectured extensively on the public understanding of science at the Royal Society (Zeneca Lecture), the British Association (Royal Society Lecture) and for a number of other organisations. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2006.
Robert J. Young BIO (pdf) »
Developments in Technical Textiles and Composites - Abstract (pdf) »
Joanna Berzowska
Associate Professor of Design and Computation Arts and Director of the Graduate Certificate Program in Digital Technologies at Concordia University.
Joanna Berzowska lectures internationally about the field of
electronic textiles and related social, cultural, aesthetic, and
political
issues. She was recently selected for the Maclean's 2006 Honour Roll as
one
of "thirty nine Canadians who make the world a better place to live".
She received her Masters of Science from MIT for her work titled Computational Expressionism and subsequently worked with the Tangible Media Group of the MIT Media Lab and cofounded International Fashion Machines in Boston. She holds a BA in Pure Math and a BFA in Design Arts.
Joanna Berzowska BIO (pdf) »
XS LABS: electronic garments that consume the body - Abstract (pdf)»
Rachel Wingfield
Loop.pH, Design Research Studio
Senior Lecturer - MA Design for Textile Futures
Research Fellow - School of Fashion and Textiles
Through Loop.pH Rachel has exhibited internationally with the British Council and at furniture fairs and shows in Amsterdam, Milan, Tokyo, New York, Valencia, Istanbul, Stockholm and Moscow. Her work has been shown at the Design Museum and V&A Museum in London, where Digital Dawn is now part of the permanent textile collection.
Rachel is currently working on a residency at the Royal Botanical Gardens Kew and a Leverhulme funded residency at the Queen Elisabeth Hospital in London. She will exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in early 2008 supported by CSM in an exhibition called *Design and the Elastic Mind* and continue collaborating with Nobel Laureate John Walker on the project Metabolic Media as part of the Nobel textiles Project at Central Saint Martins.
Rachel Wingfield BIO (pdf) »
A new vision for botanically inspired textiles - Abstract (pdf) »
Bernard Paquet, born in March 1960 in Belgium, makes his studies for Industrial Engineer
in electric/electronic at the High School for Industrial Engineers in Liège (B). After receiving
his master of electronic, he works as project engineer in domains like digital imaging
techniques for security applications and non destructive controls for industrial applications.
Since 1989, he is active as researcher at CENTEXBEL, the scientific and technological partner for Belgium textile industries. He participates in many developments of special measuring instruments with integrated opto-electronics and acts as technological consultant.
He is now active in applied textile research related to smart textiles, in national and European
projects such as OFSETH (Optical Fiber Sensors Embedded into technical Textiles for
Healthcare).
Bernard Paquet BIO (pdf) »
Smart textiles – Challenges and opportunities - Abstract (pdf) »
