Giulia Tomasello
Artist & Technologist
Giulia Tomasello is an interaction designer specialized in women’s healthcare in which is dedicated combining biotechnology, interactive wearable and innovation. She is the winner of WORTH Partnership 2020, Re-FREAM Project 2019 and STARTS Grand Prize 2018 awarded from EU Horizon 2020 for her projects Rethinking the Bra, Alma and Future Flora, whose honoring Innovation in Technology, Industry and Society stimulated by the Arts. This year, Giulia also won the World Omosiroi Japanese Award 6th for her multidisciplinary work.
In the last two years she has been investigating the potential of biotechnology and living materials, proposing a biological and sustainable alternative for electronic textiles. She considers herself a maker and an explorer, using diy and open source philosophy to call the boundaries between technology and our bodies into question. By designing alternative scenarios and acting as creative thinker, Giulia develops innovative tools. The intersections between medical and social sciences that she offers are enabled by multidisciplinary collaborations and the symbiosis between her creative and scientific work. Giulia Tomasello encourages knowledge exchange and social integrations in the healthcare field.
She is currently working in partnership with scientists from the University of Cambridge (UK), on Alma: her project based on a wearable biosensor designed to monitor vaginal discharge. Now sponsored by European Commission, in collaboration with Fraunhofer IZM, Berlin.
CODED BODIES is her teaching platform designed to learn basics of Arduino coding, soft wearables, electronic textiles prototyping and an exploration of biological textiles.
Giulia Tomasello is also a visiting lecturer at Politecnico di Milano, and she previously taught at Royal College of Art and Nottingham Trent University in UK.
