Speculative Textiles - Silk to Cellulose
Date and time
Speculative Textiles – Spiders Silk to Cellulose: Collaborations between art, design and science
About this event
This talk considers design ecologies, collaborating with non-human agents (flora, arachnida and bacteria) to create organic and inorganic material-based hybrid sensor configurations and textile structures.
In the context of prevailing unsustainable global textile production systems and futures of material scarcity, the panel will discuss alternative models of production at the intersection of art, design and science. Where collaboration across disciplines has led to new locally manufactured, hi-tech, on-demand products with infrastructure that enables experimentation and prototyping, generating new forms of local knowledge and methodologies for textile production and critical speculation.
Session moderators
Ismat Kabbara and Alinta Furnell of SynbioTe
Panel speakers
Dr. Patrick Spicer UNSW Chemical Engineering
Dr. Sean Blamires UNSW Spiders Silk Research Lab
Dr. Patricia Flanagan UNSW Interactive Media Lab
EG02 lecture theatre, UNSW Art, Design & Architecture, Paddington Campus Map: https://www.unsw.edu.au/content/dam/pdfs/unsw-adobe-websites/arts-design-architecture/art-design/2021-06-ada-a-d-campus/2021-06-ada-paddington-campus.pd
