Two Sensing Kirigami lampshades sit on a table with a pine cone between them.

鈥淪ensing Kirigami,鈥 authored by Clement Zheng,聽HyunJoo Oh,聽Laura Devendorf, and聽Ellen Yi-Luen Do,聽wins "Best Pictorial" award at DIS '19 conference

June 26, 2019

鈥淪ensing Kirigami,鈥 authored by Clement Zheng, HyunJoo Oh, Laura Devendorf, and Ellen Yi-Luen Do, won the "Best Pictorial" award at the Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '19), held in San Diego June 23-28. Lead author, Zheng, an ATLAS PhD student, presented the research during the conference's Deformable and Novel Materials track.

Lea Albaugh surrounded by Laura Devendorf and others at the ACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication

Lea Albaugh, textile researcher at Carnegie Mellon, to work with the Unstable Design Lab Summer 2019

June 18, 2019

Lea Albaugh is a PhD student in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where her research interests include textiles fabrication, design for bodies and spaces and interactive narrative. Her work in the Unstable Design Lab this summer will explore how to make the process of digital textile fabrication...

Laura Devendorf

Laura Devendorf gives keynote presentation at the Symposium of Computational Fabrication at Carnegie Mellon University, June 16

June 16, 2019

Laura Devendorf gave a keynote presentation at the Symposium of Computational Fabrication at Carnegie Mellon University, June 16, where she presented her research on smart textiles and wearable technology. Devendorf is an assistant professor at the ATLAS Institute and the director of the Unstable Design Lab, where her research interests include smart textiles, human-computer interactions (HCI) and design research.

Laura Devendorf

Laura Devendorf, assistant professor, participates in a week-long "textiles jam" exploring generative design for machine knitting at the聽Carnegie Mellon (CMU)聽Textiles Lab June 10-14.聽

June 14, 2019

Unstable Design Lab director Laura Devendorf visited the Carnegie Mellon Textiles Lab to participate in a week-long "textiles jam" in June.

Sandra Wirtanen at Aalto University Department of Applied Physics laboratory measuring performance of textile prototypes.

Unstable Design Lab announces researcher-in-residence for summer weaving residency

May 13, 2019

After reviewing more than 200 applications from around the globe, the Unstable Design Lab at CU Boulder's ATLAS Institute selected Sandra Wirtanen as its first researcher-in-residence for the 2019 Experimental Weaving Residency to Bridge Art and Engineering, which aims to promote collaboration between fiber-artists and CU Boulder scientists and engineers...

Laura Devendorf

Unstable Design Lab announces new experimental weaving residency

Jan. 14, 2019

The Unstable Design Lab at the University of baby直播app Boulder's ATLAS Institute is pleased to announce the creation of an experimental weaving residency. This residency will be held for six weeks in the summer of 2019 and has been generously supported by the Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design.

Laura Devendorf

Digital loom arrives in Unstable Design Lab

Oct. 10, 2018

The custom-made TC2 Digital Jacquard loom鈥揳ll 1,000 pounds of it鈥揾as arrived and is now assembled in Assistant Professor Laura Devendorf 's Unstable Design Lab . First projects will focus on just learning to use it, Devendorf says, but after that she plans to utilize more complex fabrics with integrated sensing...

Laura Devendorf

We're all chameleons now

Sept. 25, 2018

Laura Devendorf has a ready answer for how she spent the summer: The CU Boulder information scientist taught herself how to weave, an experience equal parts relaxing and infuriating 鈥 鈥渓ike brushing doll hair forever,鈥 she said.

Jolie Klefeker

CTD junior chosen as Grace Hopper Research Scholar

Jolie Klefeker was chosen as a Grace Hopper Research Scholar, a national program that aims to increase the number of undergraduate women with an interest in computing research.

Laura Devendorf stands in her Unstable Design Lab.

Weaving smart textiles

June 12, 2018

Assistant Professor Laura Devendorf researches smart textiles, one of the most promising and least explored frontiers for information technology.

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