Emilie Giles is an researcher, artist and educator, her work spanning creative technology, crafting and pervasive gaming. She is a Ph.D. student at The Open University exploring how e-textiles can be used as interactive tools for blind and visually impaired people, using participatory design approaches. Emilie has much experience in teaching people how to build their own creative technology projects, having been Co-director and Head of Outreach and Participation at Codasign for over three years, and has taught physical computing with e-textiles to students at University of Westminster, London College of Communication and The Royal College of Art as well as to members of the public in museums such as the V&A and Tate Britain.

View my website http://www.emiliegiles.co.uk/

My Location

Bushey Village

42 Park Road
Bushey
WD23 3EG

Telephone: 07811 305 647
Email: e.j.giles@gmail.com
Website: http://www.emiliegiles.co.uk/

Profile Details

Disciplines

Artist, Design, Other

My Events

Soft Circuit Workshop: Design and sew your own robot while learn / <span itemprop="startDate" content="2019-04-19T00:00:00Z">Fri 19 Apr 2019</span>Soft Circuit Workshop: Design and sew your own robot while learn / Fri 19 Apr 2019

We think of machines, particularly robots, as being things which are hard and made from metal, wires, buttons and circuit boards. With the rise of e-textiles and wearables what about robots which are soft? There is alrea...