Blog | Amy Chen

Learn Machine Knitting @ CollaborARTi

CollaborARTI is an arts organisation in Huddersfield, UK made up of a group of diverse local artists. I have recently joined the group...

Culture of Place: Handheld Home Workshop

Earlier this year, in June, Myself and Katrina McLaughlin delivered a workshop as part of the University of Huddersfield's Culture of...

TEI 2020

I attended this year's TEI (Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction) conference in Sydney, Australia. It was my first time at a...

Conference Paper IFFTI 2019: STYLE BEFORE TECHNOLOGY: RETHINKING THE DESIGN PROCESS FOR E-TEXTILES G

My conference paper is now available on the IFFTI 2019 website https://fashioninstitute.mmu.ac.uk/ifftipapers/paper-176/ It can also be...

New Paper: Design and fabrication of touch-sensitive polymeric optical fibre (POF) fabric

A paper that I am a co-author on has been published in the Journal of the Textiles Institute. The DOI is 10.1080/00405000.2019.1606379...

IFFTI 2019

I recently went to the International Foundation of Fashion Technology Institute (IFFTI) Conference, in Manchester Metropolitan University...

2018: Year in review - August to December

Continuing on from my previous post August & September: I started some exploration into E-textiles with an innate human connection,...

2018: Year in Review - January to July

One year in on my PhD. It's a good time to look back at what I have actually done while in Hong Kong. I've split the review into two...

Universal Materiality Exhibition

Our research group has been collaborating with Parsons in NY. We are presenting our work in two exhibitions: Hong Kong in December 2018,...

Conference Paper: AIFT 2018

The accepted manuscript for my conference paper "Challenges in knitted e-textiles" is available on the CV page, under Publications....

CraftTech Exhibition

If you happen to be in Hong Kong between 6-11th March 2018, come to the Museum of Medical Sciences and check out our research group's...

E-textiles Salla Dress

As part of my final project, I developed a version of the Salla Dress by V&Urchin which incorporated fibre optics. It was a definitely a...

Human 3.0 Project

Finally got around to making my second Masters project available to view! The project was based on the brief of "The Postmodern Project"....

Quiet Jumpers: V&Urchin

We've put the Quiet Jumpers, along with the Vene T-shirts and Inari top, onto the V&Urchin shop. Huzzah! Quiet Jumpers - Red and Orange...

Make Stuff by Madlab

I've recently finished volunteering with Madlab at the Make Stuff events. The events were free events around Greater Manchester,...