The Future Is Knit: Why the Ancient Art of Knitting Is High-Tech Again
05/18/2018
Rebeccah Pailes-Friedman, founder of Interwoven, explains the future of knitting and why it has been a focus for e-textile makers.
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Spacesuits and Smart Fabrics
06/21/2017
Pailes-Friedman discusses specializing in wearable tech and smart textiles, how she loves fabric and worked for years with athletes and their clothing, looking at clothing as a tool for athletics.
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Brooklyn Ballet’s Nutcracker Features Costumes by Professor Rebeccah Pailes
12/01/2017
Rebeccah Pailes-Friedman has designed a number of high-tech costumes for the Brooklyn Ballet’s production of The Nutcracker at the Brooklyn Museum.
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A Sneak Peek of the Brooklyn Ballet’s ‘Nutcracker’ at the Brooklyn Museum
01/05/2017
The Village Voice spent an afternoon with the Brooklyn Ballet at the Brooklyn Museum. The company will perform The Nutcracker at the museum, showcasing their ballet, hip-hop, and world dance chops.
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Mission to Mars, Pratt Design Reaches for the Stars
01/05/2017
Pratt Institute was selected in 2016 to participate in NASA’s eXploration Habitat (X-Hab) Academic Innovation Challenge — part of the space agency’s goal is to send astronauts to Mars by the 2030's.
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A New Home on Mars: NASA Langley’s Icy Concept for Living on the Red Planet
12/29/2016
Researchers at the NASA Langley Research Center, in collaboration with Space Exploration Architecture, believe that the best material for building shelters on Mars may be ice.
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Smart Textiles and the Future of Sustainable Fashion
11/01/2016
Are smart textiles sustainable? “Sometimes when people think of smart textiles, they only think of electronic textiles,” Interwoven Design Group founder and panelist Rebeccah Pailes-Friedman said.
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Why NASA Needs Architects And Designers
07/15/2016
Architecture and Industrial Design students at Pratt Institute designed a transit habitat for Mars missions that would be both comfortable and functional for their trip to the red planet.
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Home Sweet Habitat: Students Help NASA Design Mars Spacecraft Living Quarters
06/03/2016
The mission was to design a spacecraft for Mars-bound astronauts that was both functional and livable, making efficient use of tight quarters for the crew's 1,000-day journey.
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NASA Project Collaboration Inspires Students to Create Habitat for Travel to Mars
05/01/2016
For an interdisciplinary studio class led by Morris and Pailes-Friedman, Pratt students are working on the NASA project: eXploration Habitat (X-Hab) 2016 Academic Innovation Challenge.
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Coded Couture exhibition in New York presents garments that detect lies and read tweets
03/17/2016
A new exhibition at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery in New York includes garments, jewelry and shoes fitted with technologies such as speech recognition sensors and heartbeat monitors.
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Smart Fashion of the Future Is on View at Pratt Manhattan’s “Coded_Couture” Show
02/17/2016
Technology and fashion are clearly on the brains of museum folk. Whetting our appetites for The Costume Institute’s “Manus x Machina” this May, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston will exhibit “#techstyle”
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