No Ordinary Cloth: Intersection of textiles, emerging technology, craft and sustainability
Mili Tharakan
24 episodes
11 hours ago
Textiles matter! It is the most ubiquitous and powerful material we live with - it has the power to fulfil both our senses and our soul.
Join Mili Tharakan, a Smart Textiles designer and researcher with 20+ years experience, as she speaks to textile makers, engineers, bio-chemists, material scientists, artists, innovators and others who are pushing the boundaries of the Textile and Fashion industry by creating textiles that challenge the very meaning, role and function of fabrics as we know it today.
Through her conversations and insights with global experts, she brings alive the myriad facets of the world of Textiles - a world where there are no ordinary cloths and fabrics have the power to change us and our world.
So listen in and be inspired, learn, find connections and create extraordinary textiles...
Connect with Mili Tharakan:
Email: mili@militharakan.com
www.noordinarycloth.com [https://www.noordinarycloth.com/]
Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/noordinarycloth/] I Linkedin [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mjtharakan/]
Your support means the world to me, if you enjoyed this podcast why not consider buying me a coffee [https://www.buymeacoffee.com/noordinarycloth]
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Cover art: Photo by Siora Photography on Unsplash
Music: Inspired Ambient, Orchestraman
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Textiles matter! It is the most ubiquitous and powerful material we live with - it has the power to fulfil both our senses and our soul.
Join Mili Tharakan, a Smart Textiles designer and researcher with 20+ years experience, as she speaks to textile makers, engineers, bio-chemists, material scientists, artists, innovators and others who are pushing the boundaries of the Textile and Fashion industry by creating textiles that challenge the very meaning, role and function of fabrics as we know it today.
Through her conversations and insights with global experts, she brings alive the myriad facets of the world of Textiles - a world where there are no ordinary cloths and fabrics have the power to change us and our world.
So listen in and be inspired, learn, find connections and create extraordinary textiles...
Connect with Mili Tharakan:
Email: mili@militharakan.com
www.noordinarycloth.com [https://www.noordinarycloth.com/]
Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/noordinarycloth/] I Linkedin [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mjtharakan/]
Your support means the world to me, if you enjoyed this podcast why not consider buying me a coffee [https://www.buymeacoffee.com/noordinarycloth]
Credits
Cover art: Photo by Siora Photography on Unsplash
Music: Inspired Ambient, Orchestraman
Ep 3: Knitting Mathematics and Musical Textiles with Sophie Skach
No Ordinary Cloth: Intersection of textiles, emerging technology, craft and sustainability
1 hour 1 minute
1 year ago
Ep 3: Knitting Mathematics and Musical Textiles with Sophie Skach
Whether you love or hate mathematics, you are going to enjoy listening to this episode.
In this interview, Sophie Skach, a fashion designer and researcher, discusses her passion for interweaving the world of textiles with mathematics and technology, and her unique approach to creating catwalk collections and PhD research projects. She shares her journey on how she uses textiles as a medium to demystify mathematics and communicate complex mathematical concepts through her textile and fashion pieces.
Dive into Sophie's world to learn about mathematical fashion and uncover the complex yet whimsical projects she shares with us. Get behind the scene insights about projects such as "No Input Textiles" (where textiles are used as musical interfaces), "Talking Jumpers" and "Whistling Jacket".
Sophie explains the human-centric computing approach she adopted during her PhD, through the creation of sensor-equipped garments, and the relationship between fashion and social computing.
She challenges us, the listener, to embrace curiosity in a cross-disciplinary approach to design and learning. Listen in and find out how her curiosity about a mathematician, who shared the same birthday as her, influenced and shaped her career.
Resources:
Designing with Smart Textiles [https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/designing-with-smart-textiles-9781472569158/]
Smart Textiles for Designers [https://www.waterstones.com/book/smart-textiles-for-designers/rebecca-pailes-friedman/9781780677323]
Kobakant [https://www.kobakant.at/DIY/]
Sixty Symbols: videos [https://www.youtube.com/@sixtysymbols]
Connect with Mili Tharakan:
mili@militharakan.com
https://instagram.com/noordinarycloth/
Connect with Sophie Skach:
Website: www.sophieskach.com [http://www.sophieskach.com/]
Youtube videos [https://www.youtube.com/@sophieskach/videos] of No Input Textiles and other works
Instagram: @SophieSkach [https://www.instagram.com/sophieskach/]
Twitter: @SophieSkach
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wPQ5wvwAAAAJ
No Ordinary Cloth: Intersection of textiles, emerging technology, craft and sustainability
Textiles matter! It is the most ubiquitous and powerful material we live with - it has the power to fulfil both our senses and our soul.
Join Mili Tharakan, a Smart Textiles designer and researcher with 20+ years experience, as she speaks to textile makers, engineers, bio-chemists, material scientists, artists, innovators and others who are pushing the boundaries of the Textile and Fashion industry by creating textiles that challenge the very meaning, role and function of fabrics as we know it today.
Through her conversations and insights with global experts, she brings alive the myriad facets of the world of Textiles - a world where there are no ordinary cloths and fabrics have the power to change us and our world.
So listen in and be inspired, learn, find connections and create extraordinary textiles...
Connect with Mili Tharakan:
Email: mili@militharakan.com
www.noordinarycloth.com [https://www.noordinarycloth.com/]
Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/noordinarycloth/] I Linkedin [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mjtharakan/]
Your support means the world to me, if you enjoyed this podcast why not consider buying me a coffee [https://www.buymeacoffee.com/noordinarycloth]
Credits
Cover art: Photo by Siora Photography on Unsplash
Music: Inspired Ambient, Orchestraman