About us

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Elizabeth Esther Bigger is the creative director for datable(LLC/SL) and is known for seamlessly integrating computational elements into garment design & construction. Elizabeth is a advocate of gender equality, her recent computational piece, She Programs the Code, symbolizing women are the key regarding the future of technology.

Luis E. Fraguada is the technical director for datable (LLC/SL). Luis is also a developer at McNeel EU specializing in helping people build great things with Rhino3d. In academia, Luis is the Director of the Master of Advanced Interaction program at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC).

Awards

  • 03.2018 (Barcelona, Spain) WEAR Sustain Grant, EU Commission for GenCloth
  • 09.2016 (Heidelberg, Germany) Jury Award, Fibre Arts - International Symposium on Wearable Computers for Programmable Plaid
  • 09.2013 (Zurich, Switzerland) Jury Award, Aesthetic Category - International Symposium on Wearable Computers for Lüme

Publications

  • Elizabeth Esther Bigger and Luis Edgardo Fraguada. 2016. Programmable plaid: the search for seamless integration in fashion and technology. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct (UbiComp ’16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 464-469. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2968219.2971343

  • Fraguada, Luis (2015) When Will We 3d Print Our Food?, Cattermole, Pierluigi (ed), Food Design - Experimenta, Volume 67-68, Madrid, España, 2015 (ISSN 1133-9675), pp.204-216.

Lectures

  • 07.2018 (Bangkok, Thailand) Designing Advanced Interaction - New Interfaces for Design at the Edges of Human Evolution, TCDC/FabCafe
  • 07.2016 (Moscow, Russia) New Interfaces - Technology as the medium, Strelka
  • 04.2015 (Venlo, Netherlands) When will we 3d Print our food?, 3D Food Printing Conference, Innovatoren
  • 05.2014 (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, España) Digital Artesan, Tenerife Espacio de las Artes
  • 11.2013 (Venice, Italy) Code Rules: The changing culture of programming: European Forum of Culture
  • 09.2013 (Warsaw, Poland) Digital Fashion: Przemiany Festival at the Copernicus Science Center

Exhibitions and Installations

  • ‘13 - ‘17 (International) Tapas, Spanish Design for Food - Acción Cultura Española
  • 09.2016 (Heidelberg, Germany) Programmable Plaid - Int. Symposium on Wearable Computers
  • 04.2016 (Milan, Italy) Interactive Furniture Design Interface - New Craft: Design after Design XXI Triennale de Milano
  • 03.2015 (Barcelona, Spain) Food Form 3D - TEDx Barcelona
  • 03.2015 (Barcelona, Spain) Food Form 3D - 4YFN @ Mobile World Congress Barcelona
  • 11.2014 (Paris, France) Food Form 3D - 3d Printshow Paris, Carrousel Du Louvre
  • 09.2014 (London, UK) Food Form 3D - 3d Printshow London, Old Billingsgate Market
  • 06.2014 (Barcelona, Spain) Lüme and 3D Food Printing, Design Hub Barcelona
  • 10.2013 (Rome, Italy) Lüme and Digital Tailoring - Makerfaire Rome
  • 09.2013 (Zurich, Switzerland) Lüme: Electronically Infused Fashion - Int. Symposium on Wearable Computers
  • 09.2013 (Warsaw, Poland) ‘Food Form 1’ Przemiany Festival
  • 09.2013 (Warsaw Poland) ‘Digital Tailoring’ Przemiany Festival
  • 10.2012 (Istanbul, Turkey) ‘Street Food Printing’ Adhocracy - Istanbul Design Biennial
  • 07.2012 (Eindhoven, Holland) ‘Food Printing’ Designhuis - Premsela
  • 04.2012 (Milan, Italy) ‘Food Printing’ The Future in the Making - Salone di Mobile