TEDx Vilnius
ITP Alumna Teresa Lamb gives a TEDx VilniusED talk entitled, "The future is soft".
In technology world a substantial gender gap exists even though 75% of girls in mid-school tell they are interested in science, technology and math. In her talk, Teresa draws the close relationship between knitting and weaving to technology and programming, and shares the idea that even skills, not typically associated to technology, can be a strong foundation to entering tech world.
Teresa Lamb is a designer, technologist, and crafter living in Brooklyn, NY. Her work focuses on the intersection of craft and emerging technology through wearables and soft circuitry. She is passionate about designing and developing the future of tactile interfaces while preserving traditional techniques.
Teresa graduated with her master’s degree from Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University in Spring of 2016. Her thesis project, Cyberknitics — a wearable that generates music from the rhythm of knitting — seeks to answer the question, “will cyborgs knit?”. She is currently a Design Engineer at Teknikio where she designs electronics kits for kids and teaches soft-circuitry workshops.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx