Imperial Lates: Smart Fashion

(Cat)walk through what you might wear in the future by exploring the latest wearable tech, new textile materials and intelligent clothing.

During London Fashion week, head to Imperial College London for an alternative science-inspired look at what you might wear in the future

Find out how innovation and new materials could affect our wardrobes in the coming decades as you explore how smart clothing and new wearable tech could keep us healthy and safe, as well as on trend

With the latest prototypes, wearable print workshops, AI fashion consultants, outfits for outerspace and technology trends in trendy technology, dress smart for an evening of smart dress!

16 things to do at Imperial Lates: Smart Fashion

• Get your hands on longer lasting children’s clothes which, due to a specially engineered stretchy fabric, grow along with your little one

• Hear about new trials using wearable devices and changes in speech to spot the recurrence of brain tumours. Talks will start in the College Café at: 6:30pm, 7:00pm and 7:30pm

• Make your own heat sensitive, colour changing masks and jewellery to explore the energy resource of our bodies that could power future wearable tech, with artist Saif Osmani

• Watch a Tattoo artist create smart ink tats capable of monitoring our health by changing colour, before designing your own to show off to your friends

• Fashion designers and wearable engineers take to the stage to tell their stories, and explain why they do what they do. Talks start at:
  • 18:40: a smart sport-clothing engineer
  • 19:20: a saree re-designer
  • 20:00: a comfortable prosthetic developer

• Discuss your outfit choice with a prize-winning students aiming to use machine learning to speed up the task of getting reading in the morning.

• Find out how wearable tech could represent the future of dating by letting you know who is interested in you nearby with the Ripple team

• Try on a tremor-cancelling glove to stabilise the hands of people with Parkinson’s and help them complete everyday tasks

• Explore how supercomputing power could give us the solar harvesting materials to harness the sun and power electronic clothing with our Code for Creation team

• Watch demos of space wearables to monitor astronaut’s vital signs, and intelligent spacewalk gloves with an exoskeleton to enhance dexterity in orbit

• See the future of sports science in action with Matthew Douthwaite and his sweat analysing, hydration monitoring wearable sensors

• Discuss links between traditional saree design and musculoskeletal problems with Anisha Kanabar, a designer showcasing a re-engineered petticoat which allows easier movement in this traditional garment

• Enter an immersive dystopian future as haptic, virtual reality and wearable technology are brought together by Imperial alumni Bushra Burge, working to bring storytelling and training to life

• Check out student start up Mitt’s designs for a new generation of comfortable, functional and affordable prosthetic limbs that are soft, breathable and light.

• Explore the latest in workplace health and safety wearable tech, and discuss the ethical line between keeping staff safe and monitoring their performance with PhD student Robert Houghton

• Watch a movement interpreting bodysuit in action which utilises CGI body tracking and machine learning to quantify how we move, and help doctors spot signs of muscle wasting in muscular dystrophy patients

About Imperial Lates

Imperial Lates celebrate the latest in science and engineering at Imperial College London – bringing the public together with world leading minds in their respective fields, who not only love what they do, but also love sharing their work with new audiences.

A perfect evening’s entertainment for adults of all ages and backgrounds. Anyone with a curious mind is welcome to get hands on with our research, brought to life through live demonstrations, creative workshops, interactive experiments and inspiring talks. Pick the brains of the people behind the ideas, innovations and breakthroughs to discover how their work could impact our society and change our futures.

Throw in a bar and some of the world’s most extraordinary and pioneering scientists and engineers and you have the recipe for a free, fun and engaging night out in the heart of London.

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Please note that registration alone does not guarantee seats for our talks, tours or workshops. However thosewho have pre-registered will be given the first opportunity to book places on anything with limited spaces.