Fashionable Technology: The Intersection of Design, Fashion, Science, and Technology by Sabine Seymour

Fashionable Technology
The Intersection of Design, Fashion, Science, and Technology

by Sabine Seymour

The interplay of electronic textiles and wearable technology, wearables for short, and fashion, design and science is a highly promising and topical subject. Offered here is a compact survey of the theory involved and an explanation of the role technology plays in a fabric or article of clothing. The practical application is explained in detail and numerous illustrations serve as clarification. Over 50 well-known designers, research institutes, companies and artists, among them Philips, Burton, MIT Media Lab, XS Labs, New York University, Hussein Chalayan, Cute Circuit or International Fashion Machines are introduced by means of their latest, often still unpublished, project, and a survey of their work to date. Given for the first time is a list of all the relevant information on research institutes, materials, publications etc. A must for all those wishing to know everything about fashionable technology.

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Graphic Design: Mahir Mustafa Yavuz
Research Assistance: Hannah Perner-Wilson
Copy Editor: Kai Eric Hylfelt

designforumMQ, quartier21/MQ
Vienna, Austria
June 19, 2008, 7 PM, open to the public
www.designforum.at

Catering Sponsors
Weingut Ernst Triebaumer, Rust
Weingut Peter Schandl, Rust
Bäckerei Wagner, Eisenstadt

Thanks to Dr. Buxbaum at Modeschule Wien Schloss Hetzendorf for lending the dress forms.

NEW!!!
*Check out the video documentary of the event at Eyebeam by Cool Hunting (media partner of Fashionable Technology in New York). The video made it to the most viewed video on YouTube Science & Technology.
*See the first photos of the book launch at Designforum in Vienna by Mahir Yavuz on flickr.

For the book launch at Eyebeam Art & Technology Center in New York please go to Archive of Past Events.

Sabine Seymour

Sabine Seymour is an innovator and trend spotter who is focused on next generation ‘wearables‘ and the intersection between aesthetics and function. She is the CEO and Chief Creative Officer of Moondial, which develops fashionable wearables and consults on fashionable technology to companies worldwide. She is a faculty member at Parsons The New School For Design in New York and the University of Arts and Industrial Design in Linz, Austria. Sabine curates, exhibits and lectures internationally and has been published worldwide.

Press release english .doc

Press release english .pdf

Springer News english .pdf

Press release deusch .doc

Press release deutsch .pdf
Photos Book
Photos Sabine Seymour

*Geek Chic, a book review by Nylon Magazin on May 20, 2008.
*Regine Debatty from we-make-money-not-art wrote a book review on May 26, 2008.
*Peter Illetschko conducted an interview with Sabine Seymour for DerStandard Forschung Spezial on June 4, 2008 (German).
*A book review by Prof. Dr. Susanne Junker in Architonic (German).
*ORF OE1 radio Anna Soucek interviewed Sabine Seymour for the show Leporello on June 20, 2008.
*An interview by Jasmin Edelbrunner for Austrianfashion.net.
*ORF Futurezone article and OE1 radio interview by Anna Masoner for the show Matrix (German).
*Profile Nr. 26 features a book review in its printed weekly magazine (German).
*A book review by the folks of talk2myshirt.

Press: press[at]fashionabletechnology.org
Lectures and curatorial engagements: fashiontech[at]fashionabletechnology.org

Commercial engagements: moon[at]moondial.com
Portfolio of projects: Moondial

Fashionable Technology Research Consortium website

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