Joanna Berzowska is an Associate Professor of Design and Computation Arts at Concordia University in Montreal.
Her work and research deal primarily with "soft computation": electronic textiles, responsive clothing as wearable technology, reactive materials and squishy interfaces.
A native of Poland, she grew up in Algeria and Gabon before coming to Montreal to study university.
[1] She is the founder of XS Labs (Extra Soft) in Montreal, where her team develops electronic textile and reactive fashion projects such as Memory-Rich Garments.
She was the founder in 2001 of International Fashion Machines in Boston, where she developed the first electronic ink wearable animated display and Electric Plaid, an addressable color-change textile.