What We'll Wear in the Future

Dava Newman seated in the MIT BioSuit, a close-fitting grey suit laced with red tensioning lines, wearing a bubble helmet, against a radial corrugated backdrop. I published a mood board called Garment on Sunday. It contains six hundred and ninety images and no explanation at all, aside from a textual aperitif courtesy of Virginia Woolf: “They change our view of the world and the world’s view of us.” A mood board is wordless by design. I want a board to be looked at before it’s read, and a caption under every picture would turn looking into reading. But the silence costs something. Months of hunting go into one of these, and almost none of that work survives into the thing you actually see. Somebody finds an image of a dress made of glass and has no way to learn that it is, in fact, a dress made of glass. Liner notes solve this. You put the record on first. Then, somewhere in the second or third listen, you turn the sleeve over and find out who played the bass. So here are mine.…

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