Making a Difference Speaker Series: Soft Technology with Lea Albaugh

Clothing for Moderns is an investigation into the use of “soft” actuators in couture electromechanical clothing.

Curious about wearable technologies and soft robotics? Join us for another brilliant talk to learn about engineering shape-changing interfaces with soft materials.

Brilliant Labs is pleased to host our next virtual speaker series event with researcher Lea Albaugh. Please join us on Thursday, Jan 19, at 1:30 p.m AST. Students, Teachers and parents are encouraged to join independently or in groups.

Lea Albaugh researches fabrication and material creativity as a PhD student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. (Previous affiliations include Disney Research, the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, the Recurse Center, and the MAKESHOP at Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh.)

Lea’s interdisciplinary work blends design inquiry, craft practice, and hardware and software engineering for a variety of outcomes including soft textile mechanisms, creative interfaces for computational machine knitting, and interactive embroidery machine games.

Check out Lea’s website here: http://lea.zone/

Click here to register: https://brilliantlabs.typeform.com/BLSpeakerJan23

If you have any questions about the Making a Difference BL Speaker Series, please contact alisha@brilliantlabs.ca