The eTextile Lounge : a global hackerspace by Lynne Bruning

Bio for body pixel:

Lynne Bruning is an award winning wearable artist, eTextile innovator and, as she likes to title herself, ‘a textile enchantress, lover of black sand beaches, tangerine bikinis and fast connections.’ She holds an Bachelor of Arts in neurophysiology and Masters in architecture. Her artworks have been published in numerous fashion magazines, web zines and all over the blogosphere. She lives and works in Denver, Colorado. Lynne is pretty active member and proponent of DIY scene in eTextiles and wearable tech fields. 

Last 22 march of 2011 she created "The eTextile Loungue" a meeting point via ustream for fashion wereable and computing innovators, trend setters and wide-eyed novies, like she said.. A meet between colleagues to show their creations, blogs, ideas and dreams...

See more about this fantastic loungue in:
http://www.lbruning.com/etextiles/global-etextile-hackerspace-tuesday-nights-on-ustream/

And you will can download a pdf of the week whit all the information such a webs, blogs, artists and local meeting points.

Thanks Lynne for this great idea and for make this space possible ;)

Photo by Lynne Bruning

Time Traveling the Techno-Handmade Revolution by Sally Fort

Sally Fort Craft & Design Curator
 
Lly Sally Fort is a craft & design curator, cultural participation and learning consultant, and textiles designer-maker. In 2005 Sally received funding to research the DIY / counter-culture craft scene in the US and UK. This led to the 2009 project UK DIY, including the UK’s first exhibition of counter-culture crafts, accompanied by events and projects across the North West. With a special interest in relationships between craft and web 2.0, Sally is currently developing a crowd-sourced exhibition marrying code and textiles.
When she’s not doing that, Sally is usually helping galleries, museums, universities and schools work more effectively with their communities through participatory arts and cultural activity.

You can find her at www.sallyfort.com or @sallyent on twitter

Is one of the speakers in this years “Post Craft” session at the FutureEveything conference.

Read the article in:
http://futureeverything.org/articles/time-traveling-the-techno-handmade-revolution-by-sally-fort/

FashionCampLA: The First Fashion + Technology UNConference In LA

FashionCamp LA is free and volunteer-run, in which anyone can present and everyone is encouraged to share their knowledge about fashion. Volunteering with Fashion Camp is a great way to meet new people working in fashion, learn about fashion technology, fashion eCommerce, and fashion 2.0. If you’re in the Los Angeles area on May 15th and May 16th, 2010 and are interested in how technology in fashion (blogging, social media, social networking, podcasting, videos, mobile content, etc) works, then please join and help out.

Volunteers can help out in various ways, including (but not limited to):

*Planning Fashion Camp LA.
*Presenting at Fashion Camp LA. Please send a blurb of what you want to speak on.
*Setting up/Taking down of the event.

 if you’re interested in volunteering:
LA@fashioncamp.org

More info in:
http://www.la.fashioncamp.org/

Metamorfosi / Metamorphosis by Elisabetta Cianfanelli & Stoffel Kuenen

The nature of the consumer goods industry is changing: the way it interacts with users, the way it operates and manufactures and the products it makes. A framework is sketched for collaboration between industry and universities, commerce and research, where value of the past gives form to the future with the tools and materials that current technologies provide. This book focusses on the Italian fashion system as an example of a sector wrought with tradition, saper fare and high quality that forms a fertile ground for a human-centered application of the latest technologies in all aspects of the production chain, ranging from strategic and marketing aspects, to processes and tools of production, from materials used and sustainable strategies to the skills of the designer. The user forms the center of the fashion product. Hence fashion products are presented, in which a subtle application of state-of-the-art technologies extend functional, expressive and communicative properties, resulting in metamorphic fashion.

Scientifically responsible: Elisabetta Cianfanelli
Scientific coordinator: Stoffel Kuenen
Research team: Roberta Baccolini, Gabriele Goretti, Ambra Trotto
Graphic design: Giulia Mari, Veronica Cornacchini, Ilaria Cornacchini, Ilaria Ruffino -
Italian revision: Patrizia Salis
Italian and English text

© Polistampa 2010, cm 16,5x23,5, pp. 200, ill. col., cart., € 32,00
ISBN: 978-88-596-0787-8