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What will we be wearing in the future?

From 3D printing fashion to clothes grown from microbes. A special recording on the future of fashion from Cheltenham Science Festival 2025.

What are you wearing today? What processes, chemical and otherwise, have gone into creating the garments in your wardrobe? And how might they be improved, honed, transformed in the future?

Professor of Materials & Society at UCL, Mark Miodownik, Dr Jane Wood, Lecturer at the University of Manchester and expert in textile technology, and materials scientist, writer and presenter Dr Anna Ploszajaki join Marnie Chesterton to take a closer look at possibly the most familiar materials we own, our clothes.

Presenter: Marnie Chesterton
Producers: Clare Salisbury and Lyndon Jones
Editor: Martin Smith
Production Co-ordinator: Jana Bennett-Holesworth

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28 minutes

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  • Thu 14 Aug 2025 16:30
  • Mon 18 Aug 2025 20:30
  • Wed 20 Aug 2025 05:04

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