Course Meeting Times
Two sessions / week: 3 hours for 1st session, 1 hour for 2nd session
The longer session each week will tend to focus on in-class activities requiring more time, while the shorter session will tend to feature guest lecturers.
Prerequisites
While useful, prior experience with textiles, electronics, and programming is not required.
Textbook
Kadolph, S. J., and A. L. Langford. Textiles. 10th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2007. ISBN: 9780131187696.
Grading
| ACTIVITIES | PERCENTAGES |
|---|---|
| Weekly assignments | 60% |
| Final project | 30% |
| Class participation | 10% |
Summary Calendar
| SES # | TOPICS | KEY DATES |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction | |
| 2 | Conductive textiles | Assignment 1 (soft circuit) start |
| 3 | Textile sensors | |
| 4 | Fabric PCBs, part 1 |
Assignment 1 due Assignment 2 (fabric PCB part 1) start |
| 5 | Guest lecture by Marcelo Coelho, MIT Media Lab | |
| 6 | Fabric PCBs, part 2 |
Assignment 2 due Assignment 3 (fabric PCB part 2) start |
| 7 | Guest lecture by Prof. Yoel Fink, MIT Materials Science and Engineering | |
| 8 | Fibers and yarns |
Assignment 3 due Assignment 4 (yarn) start |
| 9 | Guest lecture by Greg Rutledge, MIT Chemical Engineering | |
| 10 | Spinning workshop | |
| 11 | Nonwovens |
Assignment 4 due Assignment 5 (nonwoven) start |
| 12 | Wearable computing, part 1 (joint class with 21W.789 Communicating with Mobile Technology) |
Assignment 5 due Assignment 6 (networked wearable) start |
| 13 | Guest lecture by Tricia Wilson Nguyen | |
| 14 | Wearable computing, part 2 (joint class with 21W.789 Communicating with Mobile Technology) | Assignment 7 (final project proposal) start |
| 15 | Guest lecture by Despina Papadopoulos, Studio 5050, NYU | |
| 16 | Wearable computing assignment presentations, with 21W.789 Communicating with Mobile Technology | Assignment 6 due |
| 17 | Embroidery and printing | |
| 18 | Guest lecture by Rehmi Post and Kit Waal, MIT | |
| 19 | Final project proposal presentations | Assignment 7 due |
| 20 | Guest lecture by Becky Stern, MAKE and CRAFT | |
| 21 | Knitting and weaving | Assignment 8 (knit, woven, embroidery or print) start |
| 22 | Guest lecture by Anne Whiston Spirn, MIT | |
| 23 | Field trip to the RISD Textile department | |
| 24 | Knit, woven, embroidery presentations | Assignment 8 due |
| 25 |
Pattern design Guest lecture by Sheila Kennedy | |
| 26 | Visit from Kelly Dobson's "Textile Futures" class @ RISD | |
| 27 | Final project presentations | Assignment 9 Final project due |