Lara Grant

Lara Grant
Resident

Lara Grant is a designer, educator, and fabricator. Her creative work is interactive, primarily involving wearables and e-textiles. She holds a BA in fashion design and an MPS from NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) with a focus in physical computing and wearable and soft electronics. In addition to workshops, she teaches an undergraduate class at California College of the Arts, and has written and designed Instructables and classes as part of the Design Studio at instructables.com. She loves taking any opportunity to speak and share space with the established and growing e-textile and DIY community through events like eTextile SummerCamp and is thrilled to be part of the organizing team for the US sister-event, eTextile Spring Break. Currently, she is focused on creating e-textile interface solutions for people with physical disabilities who need creative solutions not found on the market today.

Lara also likes noise – whether it’s coming from squeezing a piece of resistive felt connected to a lo-fi integrated circuit based on the 4093 chip, droning from a car stereo stuck between radio stations, or oscillating out of a speaker connected to a musician’s tangle of wires.