TIS Weekly (#65): Fashion Is Going To Be About Interdisciplinary Creativity
A new month, a whole new channel: FASHION! Only a few days in, but we’re already astounded by how the Fourth Industrial Revolution is hitting the fashion industry in full force. Join us and see how the tech industry is merging with the fashion industry, while demanding creativity and co-creation.
“Fashion is changing through a fusion of new technologies that are blurring the lines between physical, digital and biological spheres.” (Imran Amed, Business of Fashion)
Theme | FASHION
What’s happening, fashion?
Watch this Business of Fashion panel with speakers from Intel, The World Economic Forum and Manufacture NY discuss the future of the industry in great detail. One take away: in the future it will all be about imagination (magic), ‘what do you want your garment to do and how can we make it?’
Theme | FASHION
Connected fabrics
It may look like regular yarn, it definitely is not! Google’s Project Jacquard weaves technology into fabrics, making the yarn conductive. This way everyday objects such as clothes, but also furniture, can be transformed into interactive surfaces. Nice, never lose the TV remote, as it’s built in your Samsung couch or jacket (remember this video by Google’s partner Levi’s?)!
Theme | FASHION
Van Dongen’s Solar Shirt
Whether our TIS-team would actually wear a shirt made of 120 solar cells, is not relevant, but designer Pauline van Dongen does raise an interesting point: it’s not unthinkable we would all walk around with rechargeable clothing one day, but should we?! Nonetheless, it’s good for you Pokémon Go users out there.
Theme | SOCIAL INNOVATION
Protecting the Amazon
Our colleagues at Hivos recently worked on project CoCoon preventing the destruction of Amazon rain forest by mining and oil corporations. Partnering up with the local community, CoCoon has invested in monitoring illegal activities with GPS equipment, cameras, tablets and drones. Watch this mini-doc to get a good idea of the struggle locals are going through and how technology can aid them in their fight for land.
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