柴火共进社｜What Happens If Clothing Becomes a New Type of Hardware?
The traditional fashion industry has been one of the largest polluters in the world. Globally 30% of clothes mass produced yearly are never sold or are returned due to incorrect fit. Deadstock then ends up in landfills and incinerators. If only clothes are only made when people need them.
What does it take to do on-demand mass customization? Using simulation for design, clothing can be customized to each person’s unique body measurements. No more fitting bodies to clothes, if the clothes can fit to the person. What happens if one treats clothing as a new type of hardware? Embedding wearable technologies in clothes can make fashion more functional and sustainable.
On September 2nd, we will invite Kitty Yeung, Senior Director of Artificial Intelligence at Browzwear and founder of Art by Physicist, to share her views. In this talk, the speaker will demonstrate original and eco-friendly fashion items created with digital painting, textile printing, open-source hardware, 3D printing, physics simulations and artificial intelligence, that are not only works of art but also revolutionizing the fashion industry. The talk will be divided into two parts: sharing and Q&A. Schedule as follows:
14:00 - 16:30,Sharing｜What will happen if clothing is treated as a new type of hardware?
16:30 - 17:00,Q&A
Dr. Kitty Yeung is a physicist, engineer and artist. Recently she started a new role as the Senior Director of AI at Browzwear. To drive integration between science and art, she also founded a sustainable and STEAM fashion brand, Art by Physicist and founded the fashion-tech incubation at Microsoft and worked as its founder CEO. Before that she was a Senior Quantum Architect at Microsoft Quantum, Manager and Creative Technologist of the Bay Area Microsoft Garage Program, UX Designer at Intel Maker Group, Research Scientist and Hardware Engineer at Intel Silicon Photonics. She’s the producer of Microsoft’s quantum learning materials, including the MS Learn quantum modules and the Quantum Learning website; author of comic series Quantum Computing & Some Physics; lecturer at HackadayU and Microsoft Reactor on Quantum Computing. She received her Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Harvard University in 2015 (Thesis: Engineering Plasmonic Circuits in 2-Dimensional Electron Systems) and a M.Sci., B.A. and M.A. in Natural Sciences from University of Cambridge in 2010.
This event is free and all are welcome! The following groups are especially welcome to register and participate:
● People who have or want to apply open source hardware to clothing
● Those who are interested in AIGC and want to know more
● Practitioners in apparel related industries
● Tech entrepreneurs and investors
Event Details
Time: 14:00-17:00, September 2, 2023
Location: Chaihuo Maker Space, Room 622, Area B, Vanke Design Commune, Dashi 2nd Road, Nanshan District, Shenzhen
Number of people: limited to 40 people
Registration:Click the link below to register now. In order to ensure the quality of the event, those who want to participate must register in advance to lock seats.
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