Cecilia Raspanti is co-founder and lab lead of Waag’s TextileLab Amsterdam. She is a creative researcher in fashion and textiles, and a digital fabrication expert. With the TextileLab, she leads the creative research and technological development of new concepts and alternatives for the textile and clothing industry.
Cecilia is co-founder and global lecturer of the educational worldwide distributed programme Fabricademy: Textile and Technology Academy, where she leads the global lectures and research on the topics of sustainability, bio-materials and bio-chromes.
Experienced in fashion, knitwear and textiles production, Cecilia focuses on translating traditional craftsmanship into digital fabrication opportunities. Alternative production processes facilitate the access of these technologies to a broader public. Always inspired by human’s relation and connection to nature and technology, her latest works involve the use of biotechnology and chemistry principles, to rediscover colour and material properties.