Textile Futures: Crafting Fashion Narratives with AI🧵
​Textile Futures: Crafting Fashion Narratives with AI : A 2-hour Interactive Co-Creative Experience, followed by a 30-min Q&A session
​An Immersive Workshop into the future of fashion and textile design, led by Samar Younes, exploring the intersection of ancestral craft wisdom and generative AI. Drawing from historical textile traditions and contemporary technological innovations, we'll investigate how AI can enhance rather than replace traditional design processes.
​What to Expect?
​This specialized session goes beyond basic AI implementation to explore:
​Cultural pattern recognition and development
​Sustainable design thinking through AI
​Hybrid creativity in fashion innovation
​Cross-cultural textile narratives
​Future ancestors in design
​At SAMARITUAL, we believe in the transformative power of immersive brand experiences. Our IMAGINAOLGY sessions are designed to:
​Enhance your ability to create multidimensional brand ecosystems.
​Strengthen strategic thinking, unlock limitless brand potential, and understand the skills required to navigate future branding landscapes.
​Balance traditional techniques with AI-assisted creativity to craft expansive brand universes.
​Embrace a refined multidisciplinary approach focused on a multi-intelligence ecosystem, including cultural, artisanal, and AI-driven insights.
​Key Highlights:
​Pattern Language: Learn to develop unique textile patterns blending cultural heritage with AI
​Sustainable Innovation: Explore circular design thinking using AI as a tool
​Cultural Translation: Bridge traditional craft with contemporary technology
​Design Process: Master hybrid approaches to fashion ideation
​Future Thinking: Anticipate emerging trends in fashion and textile design.
​In addition to the workshop, you'll receive a comprehensive self-guided IMAGINAOLGY PlaySheet on Textile Futures: Crafting Fashion Narratives with AI and a Certificate of Completion that you can add to your LinkedIn Profile.
This workshop is ideal for:
​Fashion designers
​Textile artists
​Sustainable designers
​Brand innovators
​Cultural practitioners
​Design researchers
​IMAGINAOLGY Quantum Field effect:
​​Our network of 3000+ temporal agents operates across multiple dimensions of practice, spanning 12+ countries and 23+ leading organizations—from Spring Studios to Nike, NYU to Goethe Institute. These hybrid practitioners—designers, strategists, technologists, futurists, and cultural catalysts—aren't just using AI tools; they're engineering new possibilities for cultural expression through quantum craft methodologies.
​​About Your Guide:
​​Samar Younes is a Beirut-born hybrid artist and radical world-builder exploring the intersection of ancestral intelligence, craft, and technology to shape hybrid futures. Through her creative practice, SAMARITUAL, she transmutes imperfections and artisanal idiosyncrasies into a re-wilded vision of technology—one that celebrates cultural plurality, sustainability, and speculative imagination.
​​As a Central Saint Martins alumna, her background in architecture, visual communication, and scenography informs over 20 years of experience crafting brand universes and shaping cultural narratives. Beyond her creative work, she mentors individuals and organizations—including through NEW INC, the New Museum's art and tech incubator—helping them define their unique zone of genius while building visionary futures.
​​Her approach integrates transcultural intelligence and ancestral wisdom to inspire radical creativity and thought. In a world increasingly shaped by AI, she guides practitioners on how to think, create, and interact with emerging technologies—not as tools of replication, but as catalysts for originality, identity, and transformative work.