Cecilia Raspanti, Guru

Cecilia Raspanti is a creative researcher in fashion & textiles and a digital fabrication expert. She is the co-founder of the educational world wide distributed programme, Fabricademy: textile and technology academy, and co-founder/LabLead of the prize winning TextileLab Amsterdam at Waag. Here she leads the creative research and technological development of new concepts and alternatives visions for the textile and clothing industry. 

Graduated from Polimoda Fashion Institute of Florence, in Fashion and knitwear design. Experienced in fashion, knitwear/textiles, she enjoys bridging that traditional craftsmanship knowledge with a variety of technologies, as opportunities to explore alternative production processes. Always inspired by nature’s magic, her latest works involve biotechnology and chemistry principles to rediscover colour and material properties for a more sustainable path.