{"id":1104,"date":"2018-06-27T14:40:53","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T05:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tse.ens.titech.ac.jp\/~deepmode\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2021-01-18T11:27:22","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T02:27:22","slug":"21-28-july-2018-entry-now-csmxtokyotech-wearable-hackathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tse.ens.titech.ac.jp\/~deepmode\/csm\/event\/21-28-july-2018-entry-now-csmxtokyotech-wearable-hackathon\/","title":{"rendered":"21-28 July 2018: Entry Now! CSMXTokyoTech Wearable Hackathon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hackathon (design workshop) will be held in July as part of the ongoing Biotechnology Wearable Fashion project.\u3000Full House – application closed, thank you!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cExistential Wearables\u201d : In 10 years, what do people wear in Tokyo?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How will what we wear reflect how we feel, how we act and how we want to connect with others? How can a wearable technology enhance or affect how we want to exist as humans? As city populations and demography continue to increase and technology becomes even more embedded in our lives, how can we secure personal space and maintain a sense of freedom? How will our external apparel reflect our internal world – will what we wear help us to communicate, to disconnect or to cooperate with our surroundings?<\/p>\n

The Existential Wearables project explores the interface between the body, technology and society to explore possible manifestations for future wearables. We will be facing a number of social issues such as aging, population decline, elderly nursing, immigration, in 10 years\u2019 time in Tokyo. Our community sites including hospitals, schools, streets, offices etc have their strong and weak, good and bad, positive and negative  aspects of each, as if they show their own light and shadow. Considering the issues, expressing our thoughts and emotions, reflecting Tokyo\u2019s history and culture, playing the ideas, we will create Existential Wearables.<\/p>\n

Over 8 days we will bring together people from design, biology, art, engineering and technology to speculate through making, for a \u2018hackathon\u2019 of collaborative workshops working with programmable textiles and light emitting materials. Prototypes, designs and ideas created will be developed further and presented at a public event in Hikarie in late September 2018, intended to extend the conversation about life enhancing biotechnologies.<\/p>\n

Ulrike Oberlack and Heather Barnett from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London will conduct the hackathon in collaboration with Kayoko Nohara and Hiroshi Tsuda from Tokyo Institute of Technology. Drawing on the ideas generated in the previous fashion caf\u00e9s and the workshops, students, industry people, artists\/designers, and scientists\/technologists will work together to build on the emerging ideas, hack materials and build prototypes.<\/p>\n

(This is a credit course intended for Tokyo Tech graduate students.)<\/p>\n

Hackathon Details:<\/strong><\/p>\n