Conjuring the E-textiles Workshop: How to Get What We Want

Short Session Description: In this hands-on workshop, we share our experiments with soft circuitry and electronic textiles (e-textiles) and talk about strategies for designing an e-textiles workshop in a library makerspace. Participants can interact with our projects, create their own, and learn about the material conditions that made this work possible. While we sew, we’ll collectively brainstorm: what can we do in our workplaces to make it easier to teach each other what we don’t know and to forage for what we don’t have?

Session Format & Style: Hands-on workshop

Takeaways: Participants will leave with their own project and documentation for replicating our e-textiles workshop.

Organization: Fully formed.

Contact Information:

Ariel Ackerly – aackerl1@uga.edu

Lydia Brambila – lybram@uga.edu