Contact

Computational Adornment

lynne.craig@ed.ac.uk

Bayes Centre

Design Informatics

47 Potterrow

Edinburgh

EH8 9BT

Computational Adornment; innovation design for technologies to wear.
Project
Collaborators
My Role
Year
ICRA talk- Dressing Robots
Edinburgh Futures Institute
Keynote
2024

I was recently invited to present my work and approach on soft-robotics through a fashion lens at ICRA, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, in Yokohama Pacifico, Japan. Joining a wonderful collection of soft-robotics pioneers as part of the workshop, Tree of Robotic Life, addressing the theme of the conference, Connect +.

The soft-robotics community is a super group of inventors, jewellers, materials experts, system designers, engineers and developers. As a design professional, it struck me how aligned our approach is from engineering to design in the context of robotics, and yet there remains a lot to be done to find and apply translatable knowledge across sectors for the benefit of all. Humanoids, sensors, wearable robotics and playful prompts for care, all have influence on the human, the social, the designed and anthropological world. Converging across disciplines and adopting the conference theme of, 'Connect+' let this be a call to action for design to listen, act and join the opportunities robotics presents to our made, and evolving social worlds.

With special thanks to the organisers of the workshop Maks Gepner Paul Baisamy Adam A. Stokes Bingchao Wang and others and for some fab conversations with fellow speakers including, Jeffrey Lipton Kai Junge hashtag#jonathanrossiter Kenjiro Tadakuma Josephine Galipon Jamie Paik hashtag#ankurmehta UCLA. Also with thanks to friends at The National Robotarium and specifically Edinburgh Futures Institute The University of Edinburgh for supporting the trip to uncover multidisciplinary thinking and opportunities for the sector at the meeting point of robotics, business, and design - more to follow on that! :) Design Informatics, University of Edinburgh hashtag#computationaladornment hashtag#designrobotics