LORNA WATSON

Lorna Watson is the founder of STELAR, a purpose-led brand focussed on the principles of community, craftsmanship, transparency and regeneration. Born and established in Bali, STELAR collaborates with local artisan communities to create luxury handcrafted bags and accessories that preserve high-level heritage weaving skills. Their mission is to build a modern luxury brand, that continues to set new industry standards of traceability by bringing value to the people and skills behind each item they create, not only the item itself.

LYNNE CRAIG

Lynne Craig’s practice connects design, technology, education, and business development; exploring the frontiers of emergent technologies and cultural change.

Throughout her career she has built businesses, created products, designed systems for global audiences, and continues to reimagine what the role of ‘making’ in design, education and business looks like for tomorrow.

She has recently been interviewed for the New York Times, exploring futures in jewellery, and has created celebrated immersive retail experiences globally for premium international brands across fashion, beauty and luxury sectors, including De Beers, Louis Vuitton, Uniqlo and Dunhill.

A jewellery graduate from the Royal College of Art, current roles include Deputy Director, Innovation, Edinburgh Futures Institute, Programme Director MA Design Informatics at University of Edinburgh. Previously Founder and Director of Digital Anthropology Lab, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, UAL, where she pioneered novel play-based design and engineering programs for fashion expanding the role of moving materials with soft-robotics. Lynne launched an AI collaborative fashion design concept, as part Business of Fashion Textiles and Technology SME R&D programme. Lynne continues to consult with industry partners and as a mentor and advisor to emergent businesses in the creative industries, particularly working with fashion and technology start-ups.

Lynne is Non-Executive Director and Co-Founder Holition Augmented Retail, serving as an elected member of Goldsmiths Centre Trade Advisory Strategy Committee, and Fellow, Royal Society of Arts.