Sunday Discovery: Central Saint Martins Textile Futures 10th Anniversary Video

Carole Collet created the textile futures course at the famed Central Saint Martins School. The course celebrated its 10th anniversary with two exhibits, one in London earlier this summer and another during Milan Design Week in April.

Highlights from the show as seen in this video include using air as a material, exploring the manipulation of DNA to produce products and how that will effect manufacturing in the future, digital skins (which needs more explanation) and a plea to come back to our physical senses, the importance of touch.

One student describes her work as a biological atelier – the mutual explorations of the scientist, the designer, and the craftsman a theme to which all projects seem tied. All of the work explores the tension between past and future, lo-tech and high-tech, explains Collet.

You will notice that the voices represent a breadth of nationalities. Beautiful provocative stuff.

video via Jotta

The Designers

Sunday • August 14, 2011 • by Chauncey Zalkin

Category: Blog, Carol Collet, Central Saint Martins, Exhibits, Fabric, Schools, Science, Sunday Discovery, Sustainable, Textiles, U.K.