Any level of graduates in fashion design and product design willing to explore new technological applications in the field of fashion, providing solutions to users and markets.

The course is a multidisciplinary accelerator of ideas and creativity. During the program, students attend several modules focused on computational design, digital fabrication, advanced interaction, market, and dissemination, all organized around the development of one individual research topic.

Students develop one research project aligned to a series of challenges and needs proposed by Industrial partners, Research Institutions, and wearables experts. Throughout this journey, students are mentored by cutting-edge professionals, leveraging their creative and technical skills, and forwarding new applications and market opportunities.

• To obtain a broad overview and to learn about the technological and technical processes that help to create new materials for subsequent development in the field of fashion.
• To use soft electronics and programming to provide textiles with intelligent behavior.
• To make textiles interact with their surroundings and the people wearing them.
• To work and control complex computer-generated geometries upon which virtual simulations can be applied.
• To create rapid prototypes using digital manufacturing techniques.
• To prepare future professionals for the new opportunities that are emerging in the field of new materials and related technologies as drivers of innovation in the textile industry.
• To train professionals to implement fashion projects with social, environmental, and technological concerns to integrate intelligent devices into a fashion collection.

Career opportunities can be the following depending on entry profile backgrounds:

• Designer specialized in textile innovation
• Consultant in textile innovation companies
• Process and product development textile designer
• Entrepreneur