Designer & Founder of Peut-Porter, Course Leader of MA Wearable Futures at Ravensbourne
After having worked in various fields of the fashion industry, Alexa Pollmann launched Peut-Porter: a platform and a way to mingle with like-minded people who, like her, inhabit the realm of the garment-making industry without falling into the categories of Haute-Couture and Pret-a-Porter. Peut-Porter produces design projects that are speculative and uses garments to investigate our cultural and technophile futures. The London based designer graduated from the Design Interactions Programme at the Royal College of Art and is course leader to the Wearable Futures MA at Ravensbourne College where she researches possible future technologies that may soon exist in proximity to the human body.
Entrepreneur, designer and researcher.
Hijosa’s first company, which was based in Ireland, designed and manufactured leather goods for the home and export market.
As a result of her company’s achievements and reputation, Carmen started to do design
consultancy working in South America, Asia and Europe for several years.
One of these appointments brought Carmen to work with the Design Center Philippines in
Manila, the brief being to help upgrade the design and manufacturing of leather goods aimed at the export market.
These work brought the awareness of the need to look into the development of alternative
materials to leather, using local skills and sustainable raw materials.
The result of this research work, which culminated in a PhD in the Royal College of Art, London, has been the development of a unique new textile, called Piñatex.
External Affairs and Operations (Non-NCS) Director at The Challenge Network
Jon is a founder and Director at The Challenge, the largest social integration charity in the UK. Jon first moved to London to start a career as a stand-up comedian but instead found himself building a rather atypical career in youth work, management consultancy, community work and international development including time at the Acumen Fund, Tearfund and McKinsey & Company. Jon lives in south-west London with his wife and three children. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community
Architects and founders of Red Deer
Red Deer is a herd of three Architects, friends and designers – formed by Lionel Real de Azua, Ciaran O’Brien and Lucas Che Tizard in an attempt to better engage with the world around them. Love for the unexpected forms a starting point in their design work, studio ethos and adventures in travel. We are not for an Architecture, we want to Architect. Then pour it out and start again.
Lead Real-Time Artist
Louisa Bremner is the Lead Real-time artist at AVR London. After training at University of Huddersfield in Computer Games Design BA (Hons), Louisa worked in video game production before moving into Architectural real-time and Virtual Reality, where for the last few years she has gained a wealth of knowledge of Virtual Reality in architecture.
With the team at AVR London, she has successfully delivered pioneering Virtual Reality projects and demonstrations to clients such as the London Business School, Doone Silver Architects and Make Architects. Projects have involved all of the major Virtual Reality headsets, including Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Samsung Gear VR.
Alongside this, she is a PhD student researcher of Virtual and Augmented Reality. Louisa has been looking at trends in the world of technology and has seen first hand the potential that these new technologies hold for the future.
Food futurologist
Dr Morgaine Gaye is a Food Futurologist and director of bellwether: Food Trends, the first food trend research compendium. She has her own health-food product range of functional food blends called Dr Gaye, which are sold globally on-line.
Morgaine looks at food and eating from a social, cultural, economic, trend, branding and geo-political perspective. Her work involves running ideation sessions, consulting to food companies, developing new products and ideas; writing articles/ trend reports for PR and ad agencies; giving public , university and corporate lectures on specific food trends, developing new ideas for food-related TV and radio programmes and doing research on all elements of the eating experience from mouth-feel to olfactory perception.