Part two of a lecture series for select design students and professionals at Parsons The New School. There was a focus how to bring new ideas to market as student with limited resources.

"Innovation shall have increasing importance as competition from foreign markets force companies to design better products," says Natalia. Parsons Designer of the Year, Natalia Allen consults corporations such as Donna Karan-LVMH, Philips and Quiksilver on the future of fashion. Her company is a catalyst for design and business. "We believe there is real relationship between innovation and growth." Also this month, Reuter's interviewed Natalia for a TV segment on fashion and technology.

A cross-pollination of information regarding specific cutting edge textile developments in the fields of medicine, materials engineering, chemistry, architecture, interior design, and fashion design.

Selected to represent the future of fashion, curators chose Natalia's laser-cut wrap dress made from nutrient rich Sea Cell fabric. The exhibition explored a century of Black fashion and it's influence on American culture.

Part one of a lecture series for select design students and professionals at Parsons School of Design. It is a personal account the soft-technologies industry presented through case studies. Additionally, a spotlight on distinction between technology for aesthetics vs. function.

A three-day exploration of emerging material trends, specific to global regions such as: Latin America, Europe, Asia, and India. The Innovation Summit examined technology success stories, focused on creating a map of rapid growth sectors and articulated an action plan for moving forward.

A two-day international conference that aims to contextualize the future potential of Wearable Technologies in a variety of fields ranging from military applications to fine art. Wearable Futures will be examining how some broad generic questions will be explored in relation to wearable technology, including but not restricted to: aesthetics and design, function and durability versus market forces; also the desires, needs and realities of wearable technologies.

The Applied Design series of events is an international forum for the new discipline of appliance design that will reach across historical boundaries, blending physical, functional, interactive, graphical, and information design for new information appliances. Of paramount concern to the broadcasting, entertainment, computing and telecommunications industries, appliance design represents a coherent approach to the design of new media and information appliances and the systems in which they are embedded.

The exhibition entitled "How smart are you dressed tomorrow?" is a unique fashion event held at the National Science Center in Amsterdam during the annual Museum Nacht. Twelve interaction designers, artists and scientists from across the world were selected to exhibit unique pieces of intelligent textiles, i-wear, smart jewelry, mood clothing and medical wear.

The main theme of the E-Culture Fair is research & development in the field of new media within the cultural domain. This involves innovative research into new technologies and applications, not only those that apply to the cultural domain but to related fields as well. We exhibited how research into physical functions, materials, fashion, technologies and human behavior may well lead to surprisingly new ways of communication, interaction and expression.