MDes Speaker Series | Kristi Kuusk
Can design process make technology more human while innovating crafts? In this MDes Speaker Series event, guest Kristi Kuusk will share her insights from working with smart textiles - where hard technology meets soft textiles.
Kristi Kuusk
Associate Professor, Design faculty, Textile department, Estonian Academy of Arts
Crafting sustainable smart textile services
Can design process make technology more human while innovating crafts? Kristi Kuusk will share her insights from working with smart textiles, where hard technology meets soft textiles. She will explain the craft and sustainability qualities refined through her PhD research.
Kristi Kuusk, Associate Professor at Estonian Academy of Arts, also works on bridging textiles and technology in smart textile projects at Spell disain. She is looking for new ways for textiles and fashion to be more sustainable through the implementation of technology. Her research on craftsmanship, smart textiles and sustainability resulted in a PhD thesis “Crafting sustainable smart textile services” presented in 2016 at Eindhoven University of Technology.