Please find here a preliminary programme of the conference.
A detailed conference programme will be published soon.
/// WEDNESDAY, 20th of SEPTEMBER 2023 (Doctoral consortium)
09:00 – 09:30 – Welcome and coffee
09:30 – 10:30 – Introductions
10:30 – 13:00 – First session of the Doctoral Consortium
13:00 – 14:00 – Lunch break
14:00 – 16:30 – Second session of the Doctoral Consortium
17:00 – 17:30 – Opening of the exhibition. Keynote speaker: Anne Toomey.
/// THURSDAY, 21st of SEPTEMBER 2023 (Conference day 1)
09:00 – 09:30 – Registration and coffee
09:30 – 10.30 – Keynote Speaker: Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen
10:30 – 11:00 – Coffee break
11.00 – 13:30 – Panel 1: Textiles and architecture *
- Bridging craft and computation through textile-led form finding – Orynek, Sylwia; Thomas, Briony; McKay, Alison.
- Knit-Mycelium Hybrids: Designing and scaling up with bio fabrication systems based on Mycocrete injection in 3D knitted tubular formworks – Kaiser, Romy; Scott, Jane; Dade-Robertson, Martyn; Elsacker, Elise;
- Design of a hybrid adaptive sunshade with a knitted textile and shape memory alloy – Lanfranco, Valerio; Luna Navaro, Alessandra; Popescu, Mariana;
- Spatial Entanglements from South to North – Qureshi, Amna; Sarantou, Melanie; Pietarinen, Heidi; Miettinen, Satu.
13:30 – 14:30 – Lunch break
14:30 – 16:30 – Panel 2: Interactive and Performative Textiles *
- Agential Digital Materials – A Fashion and Textile Perspective – Alderson-Bythell, Louis Patric; Carter, Duncan; Geaney, Victoria; Tan, Jeanne; Toomey, Anne; Broach, Zowie.
- Towards Performative Woven Textile-form Interfaces – Buso, Alice; McQuillan, Holly; Voorwinden, Milou; Karana, Elvin;
- Generative Nishijin Weaving with and for the body – Roth, Bine; Ueda, Kaori.
16:30 – 17:00 – Coffee break
17:00 – 18:00 – DRS Interdisciplinary Textiles SIG Meeting
/// FRIDAY, 22nd of SEPTEMBER 2023 (Conference day 2)
09:00 – 09:30 – Welcome and coffee
09:30 – 10:30 – Keynote Speaker: Lilijana Fruk
10:30 – 11:00 – Coffee break
11.00 – 13:30 – Panel 3 : Biotextiles and Sustainable Textiles *
- From Boxfish to Twistbox: Developing a Woven Textile Hinge Through Bio-inspired Design – Kathrin Walters, Veronika Kapsali;
- Growing Patterns: Textile Design with Living Pigments – Moser, Julia; Fleck, Karin; Posch, Irene;
- Seaweed Dialogues – Bojesen, Alberte Holmø;
- Sensory textile-bacterial hybrids: textile-bacteria fusion to impart forest-associated scents – Nerlich, Paula; Morrow, Ruth; Scott, Jane; Sherry, Angela.
13:30 – 14:30 – Lunch break
14:30 – 17:00 – Panel 4: Advanced Textiles Materials and Processes *
- A Variable Weaving Reed for Producing 3D and Seamless Garments – Cnaani, Gali; Sterman, Yoav;
- Methods for Designing Woven Textile-forms: Examples from a pedagogical textile design workshop – Drews, Juri-Apollo; McQuillan, Holly; Mosse, Aurélie;
- From Handcraft to Digital: Transforming Spatial Crochet into Cutting-Edge Technology – Nix, Tamar; Sprecher, Aaron;
- Woven Variables – Investigating the Influence of Conductive Float Arrangements on the Performance of Woven Piezoresistive Pressure Sensors – Ma, Jingting; Pouta, Emmi; Gowrishankar, Ramyah; Xiao, Yu;
- Development and integration of a capacitive sensor in a pleated woven structure using Tango chirimen production methods – Tokumoto, Yukihiro; Inoue, Tomohiro; Heinzel, Tincuta; Cassim, Julia.
17:00 – 18:00 – E-Stiches London meeting
/// SATURDAY, 23rd of SEPTEMBER 2023 (Conference day 3)
10:00 – 10:30 – Welcome and coffee
10:30 – 12.00 – Panel 5 : Textiles and Sport *
- Unpacking strategies for E-textile design for Disassembly – Casciani, Daria; Wang, Wei;
- The t-shirt feels rough, it can’t be breathable – Exploring the perception of sportswear – Claussen, Lars; Lloyd, Alex; Ruiz, Daniel; Havenith, George.
12:00 – 13:00 – Lunch break
13:00 – 16:00 – Panel 6: Critical Textiles *
- W(hole), matter and its absence in woven textiles – Fourquier, Ariane Camille;
- Mapping the benefits of collaborative textile research in Aotearoa New Zealand – Kilford, Angela; Withers, Sonya; Ruka, Tanya; Kane, Faith;
- Recrafting textile futures: Caring and repairing as a way to design – Maione, Donna;
- The Matter of Matters – Harsaae, Malene Pilgaard; Bang, Anne Louise; Ladekarl, Inger Marie;
- Design for Disassembly – Exploring A Critical Designer’s Agency through Adversarial Design to Produce Athleisure Clothing within a Circular Economy – Pervez, Wajiha.
16:00 – 17:00 – Closing of the conference and exhibition.
* Preliminary programme. The order of the presentations might change.