Entangled Ecologies

On June 2, 2026, Entangled Ecologies: a Fashion x Technology Runway Show premiered in the new Roth Studio at the HOP. In all, it featured 38 pieces made by 43 student, faculty, and staff designers.

Entangled Ecologies is a runway show where fashion meets tech. Organized by the Digital Arts program and the DALI Lab, we explore how bodies, technologies, and environments weave together into living systems of expression. We are exploring how clothing can move, sense, and respond. How might a dress breathe with its wearer? How might a circuit mimic a root system? How might machines grow gardens of their own? Borrowing ideas from kinetic sculpture, our runway show and exhibition reconsiders the boundary between mechanisms and life. We are curious! How might fashion become a playground for human-computer interaction, and a medium to express the entanglement of self, society, and ecology?

Entangled Ecologies was funded by an Arts Integration Grant from the Hopkins Center, the DALI Lab, Digital Arts, and the Computer Science Department.

I co-organized the show and was its Design Director. I designed the branding, the promotional materials, the website, and motion graphics projected during the runway show. I also taught a course CSDA 27: Projects in Digital Arts in which student designers made pieces for the show.

I designed and sewed two pieces for the show: the Chrysanthemum Dress and the dance costume for Metamorphia.

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Watch the Encore Walk

Watch the Behind the Scenes documentary