Entangled Ecologies: A fashion & tech runway show

Join us for a runway show where fashion meets tech. Organized by the Digital Arts program and the DALI lab, we explore how bodies, technologies, and environments weave together into living systems of expression:

• Can clothing move, sense, and respond? 
• Might clothing reflect the complexity of the natural world? 
• How might a dress breathe with its wearer? 
• How might a circuit mimic a root system? 
• How might machines grow gardens of their own? 
• What does it mean to design with, rather than against the world around us?
• How might fashion become a playground for human-computer interaction, and a medium to express the entanglement of self, society, and ecology?

Borrowing ideas from kinetic sculpture, our runway show and exhibition reconsiders the boundary between mechanisms and life. We're interested in the messy, beautiful connections between people, technology, and the more-than-human world. 

The work has been created by students and faculty across Dartmouth for nearly a year.  We work with textiles, sensors, and recycled materials to create fashion that reflects the ways we are all connected. 

Reception before the show, 7:00pm, Top of the Hop. Free and open to the public, but we anticipate a sold out show so come early! 

Sponsored by an Arts Integration Grant from the Hopkins Center, the DALI Lab, Digital Arts, and the Computer Science Department. 

Contact

For more information, contact Lorie Loeb at lorie.loeb@dartmouth.edu .