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Parsons The New School for Design is the place for design innovation and entrepreneurship. From our faculty comprised of New York City's most successful artists and designers to a roster of design exhibitions and events, Parsons is a creative community that puts the learning experience first. Read more, and find out why Parsons is the leader in design education.

Difco designs and manufactures a wide range of flame-resistant Protective Fabrics made from advanced inherently flame-resistant fibers. These products are specifically designed to meet the protective needs of men and women who work in three major areas of activity: -General Industrial Safety -Fire Service Industry -The Military

The computer revolution has made it easy for people with little to no technical training to use a computer for such everyday tasks as typing a letter, saving files, or recording data. But what about more imaginative purposes such as starting your car, opening a door, or tracking the contents of your refrigerator? "Physical Computing" will not only change the way you use your computer, it will change the way you think about your computeróhow you view its capabilities, how you interact with it, and how you put it to work for you. Itís time to bridge the gap between the physical and the virtualótime to use more than just your fingers to interact with your computer. Step outside of the confines of the basic computer and into the broader world of computing.

-Amanda Parkes' Piezing generates power using the natural gestures of the human body in motion. Around the joints of the elbows and hips of the garment is piezoelectric material that generates electricity in response to applied mechanical stress. The electricity is then stored as voltage in a centralized small battery and later can be discharged for use. - Muk Lux Flux boots change shape depending on the speed and motion of the wearer.

Pitti Immagine Filati n.66 (Florence, 27 & 29 January 2010) is coming to an end with figures and opinions from buyers and exhibitors that display optimism about a recovery over the next few months. Just a few hours before the event closed its doors at the Fortezza da Basso, early forecasts of the final attendance figures showed that Pitti Immagine Filati was attended by almost 4,000 buyers (versus 3,900 in January 2009), a 2% increase in overall attendance. It appears that the number of Italian buyers increased by 4.5%, whereas foreign attendance figures remained at the same levels recorded for the last edition. There was a rise in the number of buyers from the United States, Russia, Holland, Switzerland, Turkey, China, Hong Kong and South Korea, whilst the figures were less positive for Germany, the United Kingdom and Japan.

Plug-and-Wear, a one-stop-shop offering materials and components specifically targeted to eTextile creators has opened it's shopping doors. Plug-and-Wear is the brain child of Riccardo Marchesi, Managing Director of InnTex, an Italian based textiles and textiles machinery company with 55+ years experience in the textile industry.

Minoru Fujimoto was born in Kobe on August 9, 1983. He is a Research Associate at Tokyo University of Technology in Japan. He received the B.Eng., M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from Kobe University in 2007, 2009 and 2012, respectively. He is a dancer and researcher. His research interests include wearable computing, entertainment computing and performance art. He has developed some interactive systems for dance performance.

Ricardo Nascimento,1977. He works as artist, multimedia developer and producer. He investigates body-environment relations focusing interface development and autonomous adaptative systems for interactive installations and hybrid environments.

Premiere Vision S.A. is a French company, that has been organizing professional fashion and fabric fairs since 1973. Initially local, the company learned to evolve and acquire a national then international dimension, thanks to its relevant strategic choices and the quality of its services - features recognized all over the world by its exhibitors and visitors. Enjoying a brand name with an international reputation and an image without peer in the world of textile and fashion trade fairs, PremiËre Vision has a leading international event in Paris, which has been spun off in recent years in New York, Shanghai, Beijing, Moscow and Tokyo (inside Jitac). 9-12 Feb. 2010 spring summer 11 Parc d'Expositions de Paris Nord Villepinte

We are a recently formed group of textile designers, bound by a shared vision for the future direction of design. Far from the common perception of textile designers as girls who draw flowers, we are individuals who integrate aspects of material science, fine arts, academic research, storytelling, and product design into our practice. Because this broad understanding of textile design is still considered unconventional, we join forces to create a stronger statement for textiles.

In re: skin, scholars, essayists and short story writers offer their perspectives on skin's boundary and surface, as metaphor and physical reality. The twenty-first century and its attendant technology call for a new investigation of the intersection of body, skin, and technology. These cutting-edge writings address themes of skin and bodily transformation in an era in which we are able not only to modify our own skins by plastic surgery, tattooing, skin graft art, and other methods but to cross skins, merging with other bodies or colonizing multiple bodies.

In Summer 2007 we intertwine the practices of media arts and sound design, textile and weaving, jewellery, object and fashion design to produce the reskin Wearable Technology Lab. This collaborative project of ANAT, the Australian National University School of Art, the Centre for New Media Arts (CNMA) and Craft Australia places jewellers and fashion designers with new media artists in an intensive three week research and development lab.

We are experimenting with responsive textiles, that means textiles which have the ability to change qualities (patterns, colour, structure...) as a result of a given interaction with the physical environment, the user(s) or as a result of the of an interaction with more abstract datas.

Rights Through Making suggests using the power of design to pave the way for a new approach to our global problems. It seems that we have touched upon the limits of the rationalistic model. Words and communication often overshadow actions and deeds, instead of jointly working towards a solution.