Textiles Summer School 2022
“Weaving the future” Online Lecture Series

Jane divides her time between teaching at the Royal College of Art (RCA) and running her own studio in London. Her interest in weaving began as a student at Camberwell School of Art. After graduation, she honed her skills at L’ANAT (l’Atelier National d’Art Textile) and taught for 25 years at l’Ensci (l’École Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle), while setting up her own workshop, producing one-off scarves and accessories for the collectors’ market.

Moving back to the UK, she taught at Winchester School of Art for 6 years and is now the specialist weave technician at the RCA and an associate lecturer at Central Saint Martins UAL..She design collections of samples for Dash & Miller and works on special commissions.
 https://www.janelandau.com/

Shioka Okamoto specializes in research and production in textile design. She graduated from Tama Art University with a major in textile design in 2013 and moved to Europe, where she graduated from Chelsea College of Arts Graduate Diploma Interior Design in 2014 and completed Royal Danish Academy MA Textile Design in 2016. Since 2017, she has been working as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Design, Okayama Prefectural University. She has been working on creating works inspired by existing spaces and places, participating in group exhibitions in Japan and abroad, and presenting her works in solo exhibitions. In her collaborative research “Sensory Pleasure” with Usui Orimono Co., Ltd. she has developed a textile design that makes effective use of discarded polyester crepe.
http://www.shioka.net/

[ Photo: Masatoshi Kaga ]

Kazuya is a trans-disciplinary designer whose projects look at fashion design on a broad spectrum, from material development to design process in order to create works that speculate on an alternative future of post-human bodies where fashion design can be a critical medium between the human and the natural / built environment. His awards include the Global Change Award by H&M Foundation, Japan Media Art Festival: Art Division, Dezeen Design Award Longlist, YouFab Global Creative Award 2017, Wired Creative Hack Award 2017 and STARTS Prize 2017. He was selected for Forbes Japan 30 under 30、 WWD JAPAN NEXT LEADERS, the top 20 global design graduates by Dutch Design Week, World Design Event and Design Indaba, and was nominated for one of the “Tech-Skin Innovators” for Future Innovator Summit Tokyo 2018 by the Ars Electronica Tokyo Initiative. Recently he has been a lecturer at Waseda University and a member of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry’s Future of Fashion Study Group. He is the supervisor and one of the co-author of the book “SPECULATIONS (BNN publisher, 2019)” and “Fashion Studies (Filmart publisher, 2022)”.
https://www.synflux.io/jp

[ Photo: Keita Maruyama ]

Dr Holly McQuillan is Assistant Professor in Multimorphic Textile Systems the Materialising Futures section at the Sustainable Design Engineering department at TU Delft, Netherlands. Holly has 18 years experience researching, writing, consulting and designing in the field of sustainable fashion and textiles and is the co-author of Zero Waste Fashion Design and a number of book chapters, exhibitions and academic articles. Her current research on Multimorphic Textile Systems explores the design and development of complex interconnected fibre-yarn-textile-form systems as a means for transforming how we design manufacture, use, and recover textile-based forms. Holly’s work encompasses the design and fabrication of animated textiles for new manufacturing and use cases, methods for the automation of on-demand production of woven textile-based form and design for circular transitions.
www.tudelft.nl
www.hollymcquillan.com
www.criticaltextiletopologies.com

The current Katsura Kigyo Shop was founded in 1979. The Katsura family had been involved in weaving gold brocade for at least three generations before Hiroyuki Katsura took over the family business in 1987 after working as a machine designer at Towa Seimitsu Kogyo Co. Currently, he specialises in hand-woven  gold brocade for religious purposes. Gold brocade of this type includes kesa (robes), mizuhiki (watermarks) and other decorative fabrics related to Buddhism or the Noh Theatre in general.

*About Nishijin Gold Brocade
A fabric made of twill or satin with a pattern woven into it using gold thread. Used for Buddhist robes, Noh costumes, obi (kimono sash), sackcloth, outer garments, etc. It is characterised by a wider weave width than obi. About 10% of the companies in the Nishijin Textile Industry Association are engaged in gold brocade.

Kyoji Tamiya  has been involved in the family kimono business, Tamiya Orimono, founded by his father Kyori Tamiya since 1969. In 2006, he promoted the mother-of-pearl inlay silk fabric developed by the company as a luxury fabric to the world’s top brands.

In 2011, the fabric width was broadened and exhibited at the Première Vision in Paris. The company continues to work with luxury brands each year. An obi with mother-of-pearl woven at the same time was presented to the Empress of Japan. In 2015, he established Tamiya Raden Co.. The company has been actively collaborating with designers and creators, and has developed new fabrics such as leather silk and wood textiles applying raden weave through these exchanges.

*About Tamiya Raden
‘Weaving the radiance of the sea’
This weaving workshop has been producing Raden weave craft belts made from the mother-of-pearl layer of seashells for over 40 years. The aim is to develop new creations using inspiration from nature and traditional techniques. In recent years, the company has received offers from international high-end brands as a textile material. We strive to produce products with originality as our motto.
https://tamiyaraden.com/

Milou Voorwinden is a woven textile designer based in the Netherlands. She graduated from the product design department of ArtEZ University of Arts in Arnhem in 2016 and is currently a MA student in Design research at Willem de Kooning Academy. Voorwinden runs her own textile design and research studio, works as a researcher at the TU Delft and is a product developer at the TextileLab in Tilburg.
She specializes in weaving three-dimensional structures and one-piece woven products on the loom. Voorwinden is inspired by traditional weaving techniques and aims to rediscover, renew and apply the techniques in an innovative way using contemporary digital tools.
www.milouvoorwinden.com

Dr Sara Robertson is Tutor (Research) in Smart Textiles on the MA Textiles Programme at the RCA and leads the specialism Soft Systems. She also runs a business Sara + Sarah Smart Textile Design with long standing collaborator Sarah Taylor. Their work focusses on transforming textile properties through existing manufacturing capability within the UK. We work with the aesthetic, material and programmable properties of smart textiles and explore markets and creative opportunities for their use beyond wearables. Working closely with MYB Textiles a world leading lace manufacturer based in Scotland they have developed large scale light emitting lace and a prototype control interface for theatre and performance industries.
https://www.rca.ac.uk/more/staff/dr-sara-robertson/

Arts columnist for the Japan Times from 1984 to 1999, from 2000 to 2014, Cassim initiated and ran the influential ‘Challenge Workshops’ programme at the ‘Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design’, Royal College of Art (RCA). A leading authority on inclusive design, she has organised and run many international context-specific workshops to share inclusive skills and knowledge, and in 2010 was named one of the ’50 most influential people in the world of design’ by the UK’s ‘Design Week’ From 2014 to 2019, KYOTO Design Lab at the Kyoto Institute of Technology – she was involved in a number of progressive projects as a specially-appointed professor in charge of establishing a cross-disciplinary design centre for design innovation. Her projects there have received numerous international awards, including the Red Dot Design Award and the Dutch Design Award.

(Photo by Tian Khee Siong)

Based in Kyoto, Kaori Ueda is textile designer and researcher specializing in weaving and Associate Professor at Kyoto Saga University of Arts. A graduate of the  Royal College of Art (RCA) in 2007, she returned to  Japan and began researching traditional textile design here.
Her research is practice-based rather than theoretical using actual design methods drawn from evidence in historic books and materials.  She has recreated Old chirimen fabric to compare its quality with current chirimen fabric and show its material qualities outside its usual cultural context of the kimono.
Her other interest is in loom history and the differences between the European Jacquard and those used in Japan for traditional clothing.
https://www.kyoto-saga.ac.jp/about/teachers/2156

[ Photo: Masaki Kawabata]

Tomohiro Inoue teaches digital fabrication to citizens at FABLAB Kitakagaya. His main area of activity is making things and creating things using digital fabrication, and he is developing a movement to promote the makers movement so that it does not become a transient movement.
https://fablabkitakagaya.org/
YouFab Global Creative Awards 2015 FINALISTS

Kosuke Kinoshita has been involved in “MTRL (Material)”, which supports co-creation and innovation of manufacturing companies using materials as a starting point, and “FabCafe Kyoto”, a community base where various creators, researchers, and companies gather with the keywords of technology and creation, since its launch. Through online/offline workshop management and exhibition planning production, he is practising “creating a place where chemical reactions occur” and “designing contexts that connect things from different fields.
https://loftwork.com/jp/people/kousuke_kinoshita

After working as an engineer for a semiconductor company for eight years, Junya Iida moved to the UK to study art and design. He graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design in London with a degree in Graphic Design. After returning to Japan, he worked as a graphic designer at SANDWICH, an art, architecture, and design company, before joining Loftwork in 2018.

https://loftwork.com/jp/people/junya_iida

Born in Aichi Prefecture. Graduated from Nagoya University of Arts. My research theme at university was “Body and Clothing”.
Also involved in planning exhibitions and campus renovation projects.

In 2021, I experienced the power of creativity through an internship at FabCafe Nagoya. Seeking to encounter new values created by various fields and creativity, she joined Loftwork.

Emma graduated from the Kyoto Institute of Technology MA in Design in 2022. She works as a translator and interpreter in Design Projects since 2017. Currently, she produces and manages workshops at Mediamatic (Amsterdam) while continuing design research projects on the theme of repair and non-human relationships.