I attended Descience’s Fashion 4WRD event on September 17, 2015, and found it very inspiring and thought provoking. One of the questions they asked was ‘What do you think fashion will be in the future?’ I thought about this for a while and now I finally know my answer. The goal for fashion recently has been to make everything faster and cheaper. Our clothing has been losing quality because of this. I hope that fashion can utilize the tools that technology provides us to creat

Dr. Amanda Parkes has done a lot of everything. She straddles the worlds of science and fashion deftly and expertly, both a jack of all trades and a master of them all. Even from her days in college at Stanford she couldn’t decide between the two fields--she received a BA in art history and a BS in mechanical engineering. At MIT she received her PhD in the Tangible Media Group at the MIT Media Lab, a group that “explores the Tangible Bits & Radical Atoms”, or in normal speak,