It's time to roll up your sleeves (and possibly create some new ones) during our hands-on pre-conference workshop on Tuesday, April 17!

UPDATE: THIS WORKSHOP HAS SOLD OUT!

Learn more about creating your very own smart fabric prototype garment using the Electronic Textile Interface Swatch Book.

Electronic Textile Interface Swatch Book Workshop
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Cost: $750

The goal of this workshop is to generate discourse and collect feedback about how textile interfaces, a sub domain of the broader "e-textile" domain, can be integrated into pedagogical practice across variable fields, institutions, and communities. The workshop will include concept ideation and prototyping. Fabrication skills are encouraged and technicians and experts will be on hand to support your activities.

Schedule:
- Introduction to swatch book Recap of physics of soft circuits
- Design session Sketching & Ideation
- Discussion about opportunities
- Meeting with coders
- Making
- Wrap Up Discussion

Workshop participants will be asked to complete a short demographics survey. We will also conduct a brief group discussion that will be video-recorded after having completed the workshop. During the course of this workshop you may be asked to use skills that you feel comfortable using depending on your background. If you feel comfortable sewing you make be asked to sew. If you feel comfortable screen-printing you might be asked to screen print, etc. Along with the opening and closing surveys you complete on the day of the workshop you will be emailed a follow up survey within 4 months of the workshop.

During this workshop you will be asked to work in a group of 4-6 and, using a tool known as the Electronic Textile Interface Swatch Book that was developed at Georgia Tech, to inspire and help design a soft circuit prototype using electronic textiles. More details will be revealed about the Swatch Book at the workshop. At the workshop you will be introduced to the swatch book, how it works, and it's practical use.

Workshop Instructors:
Clint Zeagler, Instructor/Researcher, School of Industrial Design, Georgia Tech
Scott G. Pobiner, DDes, Assistant Professor - School of Design Strategies, Parsons The New School for Design
Thad Starner, Associate Professor, School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Tech
Scott Gilliland, School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Tech
Halley Profita, Computer Science Doctoral Candidate, University of Colorado - Boulder
Stephen Audym, School of Industrial Design MID Candidate, Georgia Tech

*Please note that the workshop "The Next Wave - Entrepreneurs in Fashion Tech" has been cancelled.