Artisanal Technologies: New Making for the 21st Century

SPECIAL PROGRAM

The Corzo Center for the Creative Economy
At the University of the Arts
With Hive 76

Presents

Artisanal Technologies:
New Making for the 21st Century

Free for UArts students, alumni, and the general public.
Registration is required.

Presenting a program that will excite creatives who are preparing themselves to “make” in the 21st Century. Leah Buechley, a well known expert in wearable electronics, discusses her latest work including alternate models for the production and distribution of consumer electronics crafted in small batches.

Leah Buechley is director of the MIT Media Lab High-Low Tech research group, which investigates the integration of high and low technology with the goal of helping people design and build their own technologies. With graduate and undergraduate degrees in computer science and physics she is well-known in the field of electronic textiles (e-textiles). Her work includes designing the commercially available LilyPad Arduino toolkit as well as developing a method for creating cloth printed circuit boards (fabric PCBs). Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Boston Globe, Popular Science, CRAFT Magazine, Journal of Architectural Design, Denver Post, and the Taipei Times.

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