Textile Sensors and Soft Switches with Victoria Manganiello

Textile Sensors and Soft Switches

Victoria Manganiello

October 25 – November 1, 2025

$225 for members + $28 material kit
$265 for non-members + $28 material kit

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In this hands-on workshop, participants will explore the intersection of textiles and electronics by creating soft switches and sensors using traditional sewing and knitting techniques. We will experiment with three different types of fabric-based switches, incorporating conductive thread, snaps, buttons, and other sewing notions to design interactive textile circuits. This workshop is ideal for artists, designers, and makers interested in soft circuitry, e-textiles, and wearable technology. No prior electronics experience is required.

Supply List

This workshop includes a material kit curated by Victoria and is an additional charge. Please see the break down below: 

  • $18 material kit + $10 USPS Priority Shipping (US)
  • $18 material kit + $30 USPS Priority Shipping + Customs Fees (Canada)

Please contact us at events@surfacedesign.org for pricing details if you are outside of the United States and Canada and would like to take this workshop. 

All sessions will be held online over Zoom and recorded. Recordings will be emailed to participants within 24 hours of the session. Recordings are available for one year. Live sessions are scheduled as follows: 

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About Your Instructor

Victoria Manganiello is an artist, designer, organizer, and educator. She is the co-founder of Craftwork, an experimental art and design studio. Victoria has received multiple international, recognized grants, awards, commissions, and residency appointments. She is also a part-time associate professor at NYU and the New School and co-organizes electronic textile camp, an annual artist residency for e-textile practitioners. Exploring the intersections between materiality, technology, geography, and storytelling, Victoria’s multi-disciplinary and installation work, abstract paintings, and kinetic sculptures are made meticulously with hand-woven textiles using hand-spun yarn and hand-mixed natural and synthetic color dyes alongside mechanical alternatives and modern technologies. She is well-known in the textile community as an accomplished artist and innovative storyteller and facilitates many socially engaged projects in collaboration with other artists, designers and educators.