Brooks Hagan is a textile designer, artist and researcher. He designs for various textile companies and consults with industry partners such as Apple, Inc. and Under Armour. A recent project with computer scientists at Cornell and Stanford Universities investigates advanced visualization for the design of constructed textiles and is funded by a $1.2M grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). In 2015 Hagan cofounded the textile technology company Computational Textiles Inc, which was awarded NSF SBIR support to catalyze private sector commercialization of the most promising technological innovations. Computational Textiles launched it’s first software platform, Weft, in 2017. Hagan’s research with the Virtual Textile Research Group investigates historical industrial textile processes, advanced manufacturing processes, volumetric weaving for rapid prototyping and new computational tools for textile design. Hagan collaborates with many fine artists and works with the Dieu Donne Papermill in New York to explore paper materials and textiles. He is interim dean and professor at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and has previously served as graduate program director and head of RISD’s textile department. For more information, please contact: bhagan@risd.edu