SysTex Student Award Submission

A Report About my Work Within Intelligent Textiles

My name is Laura Wilson and I would like to share my unique vision of the future for smart technologies. I am a textiles student who is determined to redefine public opinions on wearable technologies towards a more accessible public availability from the ‘concept pieces’ seen in galleries, towards more public availability.

I have created prototypes that I would like to share with you, as I am certain they will be most relevant to the SysTex Smart Textile Salon. In this report I would like to explain to you in more depth about my current work, the motives that compel me, and the societal/industrial context I perceive for my designs.

Within my work I strive to reinvent common perspectives of technology and excite the public’s imagination with a desirable visual aesthetic. In my opinion a compelling piece of smart –textile, that is to be taken seriously by the consumer, must not only promote its technological benefits, but also possess a caliber of visual design capable of rivaling that possessed by ‘traditional’ textiles.

My passion for technology integrated textile design was borne from and industry lead project at university, set by WGSN, a global authority in trend prediction.

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