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WTiN unveils ITMA Future Material Awards new jury

03 Jun '14
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World Textile Information Network (WTiN) announces new judges to the stellar line-up that will be deciding the winners at the inaugural ITMA Future Materials Awards. 
 
Dr. Kate Goldsworthy and Rebeccah Pailes-Friedman join senior executives from Nike, the US Army, the Textile Institute, Under Armour, Oeko-Tex, the Hohenstein Institute, the Austrian Man-Made Fibers Institute, Taiwan Textile Research Institute, Invista, Schoeller, Oerlikon, Polartec, NatureWorks, Bayer MaterialScience and others on the impressive judging panel. 
 
Dr. Kate Goldsworthy is Senior Research Fellow in Textiles Environment Design (TED) at Chelsea College of Arts and a lead researcher with the University’s Textile Futures Research Centre (TFRC). With over 15 years of experience as a textile designer, consultant and academic, her core interests are design for cyclability, new finishing and production technologies and material innovation. 
 
Designer, researcher, author, Rebeccah Pailes-Friedman is the founding principal of RPF Design Studio, a multi-disciplinary practice working across disciplines exploring the connection between the body, technology and the environment with a focus on improving performance and safety from innovative spaces to wearable technology. 
 
In addition, Rebeccah is pioneering research in design methodologies, smart materials and wearables. Rebeccah has held positions as Design Director for Fila, Champion and Nike and teaches in both the Fashion and Industrial Design departments at Pratt Institute, where she combines fashion, innovation and technology. 
 
The Awards will celebrate innovation in the textile sector and recognise the essential work of the many businesses that support the industry. The winners will be announced during a glittering gala dinner held on Wednesday 26th November, 2014 in Dresden, Germany– the day before the 8th Aachen-Dresden International Textile Conference starts. 
 
The ITMA Future Materials Awards are open to all the end-use sectors for technical textiles as well as materials experts, product developers and designers. 
 
They will celebrate winners in 21 categories, including the best innovations in sportswear, protective textiles, industrial textiles and medical textiles. 
 
There will also be awards for groundbreaking partnership development, best start-up company and a lifetime achievement award. 
 
The deadline for entries is Tuesday July 15, 2014. Finalists will be announced in mid September. Winners will be announced at the Awards dinner on Wednesday November 26, 2014.
 

World Textile Information Network

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