Workshop
Please join The Hybrid Body Lab for a one-day workshop in NYC to DIY sustainable functional fiber for e-textiles.
E-textile fabrication combines soft textile materials and hardware prototyping processes. However, rapidly prototyped e-textile projects often become a mixture of textile and electronic waste that presents challenges to recycling. The permanency of the material can become an added environmental burden. The EcoThreads sustainable smart textile workshop will let participants incorporate sustainable practices into their smart textile craft and will cover hands-on experience for fabricating EcoThreads materials.
During this workshop, attendees will get hands-on experience learning wet spinning techniques for functional fibers and fabricating e-textile swatching for various sensing functions. This workshop will focus on the experimentation of material and technological investigation and let them incorporate their own artistic style into your fabrication. Using biodegradable material choices, EcoThreads aims to provide a path for individual creators to incorporate sustainable smart textile practices into their work. They will guide the participants through the process of working with EcoThreads, from thread fabrication to swatch creation using your preferred textile crafting technique: weaving, knitting, braiding, and stitching. At the end, they will host a discussion and reflection session to allow attendees to share their experiences with other people in the workshop.
www.hybridbodylab.com/ecothreads-workshops
The Hybrid Body Lab at Cornell University, founded and directed by Prof. Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao, focuses on the invention of culturally-inspired materials, processes, and tools for crafting technology on and into the body surface. Designing across scales, they explore how body scale interfaces can enhance our relations with everyday products and both natural and man-made environments. They conduct research at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction, Wearable & Ubiquitous Computing, Digital Fabrication, Interaction Design, Fashion Design, and Body Art. They synthesize this knowledge to contribute a culturally-sensitive lens to the future of designs that interface the body and the environment.