To look at how collaborations between designers, engineers and social scientists, through new materials, devices or systems, could transform many spheres of life. We also didn’t want to lose the potential of wearables as a conduit for wonder and expression too. We wanted Wearables Futures to surface the potential of wearables, not only as devices or materials but as new protocols, symbols, languages and systems.
Off the Grid in the West Texas Desert - Slide Show - NYTimes.com
The Field Lab, a homestead in a part of the desert known as the Moonscape, is where a former New Yorker lives without electricity or running water.










