Alex de RijkeDean of the School of Architecture, Royal College of Art
Founding Director of dRMM
Alexandra Daisy GinsbergDesigner, Artist
Anna ValtonenRector at Umeå Institute of Design, Umeå University
Anne ToomeyReader in Active and Interactive Materials in Design, Northumria University
Bradley QuinnWriter and Design Critic
Chris LefteriDesigner
Chris WiseDirector and Co-founder of Expedition Engineering
Christine GuthCultural Historian, Royal College of Art
Fiona RabyPartner in Dunne & Raby
Professor of Industrial Design, University of Applied Arts in Vienna
Fiorenzo OmenettoProfessor of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University
Hugh Aldersey-WilliamsJournalist, Author
Katie GaudionTextile Designer
Research Associate, Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design
Manuel KretzerArchitect at Responsive Design Studio
Researcher, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Mark MiodownikProfessor of Materials & Society, UCL Mechanical Engineering Department
Martin KempChairman of IOM3 Nanomaterials Committee - Nanotechnology Knowledge Transfer Network
Michael John GormanFounding Director, Science Gallery Dublin
Mike Davies CBESenior Director at Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners (formerly Richard Rogers Partnership)
Peter YeadonArchitect, Decker Yeadon
Associate Professor, Rhode Island School of Design
Raymond OliverProfessor of Interactive Materials, Northumbria University
Richard WentworthHead of Sculpture Department, Royal College of Art
Sarah TeasleyDesign Historian, Royal College of Art
Sir Richard Friend, FRS, FREngCavendish Professor of Physics, Cambridge University
Sophie DuportNeuroscientist, Royal Hospital for Neuro Disability
Susanne KüchlerHead of Department of Anthropology, UCL
Suzanne LeeDesigner, Senior Research Fellow, Central Saint Martins
Thomas ThwaitesInteraction designer
Tony DunnePartner in Dunne & Raby
Head of Design Interactions, Royal College of Art
Bradley Quinn is a British writer and critic who contributes to magazines and newspapers worldwide. His books include Techno Fashion, The Fashion of Architecture, Chinese Style, Scandinavian Style, Textile Designers at the Cutting Edge, Textile Futures, Design Futures and Fashion Futures. Bradley also produces trend forecasts each season and produces inspirational trend concepts for clients in the creative industries.
Fashion is moving forward more dramatically now than ever before. Fresh dialogues are unfolding between designer and wearer, and radical new styles are taking fashion to extremes. Information technology and new materials are reinventing clothing as we know it, making fashion a potent source of technological and material innovation. Futuristic designs are often inspired by surprising sources: science, climate change, space suits, artificial intelligence, genetic engineering and nanotechnology. In future, some garments will be grown like plants and harvested each season. Many will be 3D printed, and others will be fabricated alongside laptops and computer hardware. Demands for heightened security and greater accountability will make every stage of the garment’s life cycle traceable, made possible by microscopic tags that catalogue each step. Bradley Quinn will survey these areas and many others, charting how fashion will look, perform, be manufactured and purchased in the near future.