Fig. This workshop is inspired by an imagination of a summer's day with a group of people making while engaged in conversation.
Fig. This workshop is inspired by an imagination of a summer's day with a group of people making while engaged in conversation.
Please join us for a one-day workshop on July 2nd as part of DIS2024 at
the IT University, in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Drawing from feminist practices of collective knowledge making, this
workshop aims to hold space for stitching samplers side by side in order
to share and imagine desirable future practices.
How can we find different ways to work on our emerging views and
commitments? What are our commitments to our future work? What will be
forgotten and what will linger? How can we hold space for each other
to make and share?
We ground this workshop in the making of stitch samplers and the sharing
of objects that can be seen as manifestations and commitments to the
future be they personal, political or philosophical.
We welcome participants from our interdisciplinary design community with
an interest in textiles, handwork, politics, ethics and culture,
equality and power relations. No prior textile experience is necessary.
We invite submissions in the form of a description and visual
documentation of a found or self-made object, alongside a reflection on
how this object represents your values and commitments. This might be an
object produced through your research, or an object from a collection
that fascinates you, brings you hope, and integrates into a story you'd
like to share.
Join us
Please submit an image and a description of an object, and tell us how
it speaks to your values and commitments in the form of a 2–4 page PDF. Submissions should be sent to e.m.vasconcelos.de.gouveia@tue.nl by
June 1st AoE the latest. Keep in mind that you can register before the early bird deadline and modify your registration once you are accepted.
Fig. Materials at the table will range from a selection of historical samplers,and materials (both traditional and experimental. Images left to right: sampler from the TRC archive, inherited leftover yarn for stitching kits, and sampler from workshop by Vasconcelos.
Research through Design is centered on making things, services and systems as a way to construct knowledge. At the same time, the act of making happens behind-the-scenes, often overlooked, outsourced or rushed through. We would like to propose a one-day workshop of making at DIS. Specifically, we propose the making of samplers as a site for constructing a shared space to contemplate the interplay of memory and imagination in design research, inspired by traditional needlework samplers as well as modern subversive stitchwork [23]. By making together, we aim to take time to consider our personal and collective commitments and stance within and outside our roles as design researchers.
Full paper: Memoirs for the Future, Imaginations of the Past: Crafting Samplers for Intent and CommitmentThis one-day workshop will be taking place from morning to late afternoon, with an optional social dinner in the evening. The main activity will be making together as a unifying task throughout the day, but also intended as a way to hold the space for conversations and the sharing of technique, stories and experiences. It is also simply an opportunity to sit together and discuss what kinds of skills, materials and strategies we might need in the future.
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Introductions, materials and techniques |
| 10:00 - 12:00 | Making and annotating |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch (maybe 🍦 at Ismageriet) |
| 13:00 - 15:30 | Making and annotating |
| 15:30 - 16:00 |
Documenting samplers (photos) and agreements on how to collaborate
for creating the zine and other outcomes in the future.
Studio visit - exact details to be confirmed. |
| 18:30 - late | Dinner (optional) |
Aisling Kelliher is an associate professor in the Media, Arts + Practice Division in the School of Cinematic Arts at USC, where she integrates HCI, interaction design, AI, and experiential media in applied areas including the domestic sphere, healthcare, and creative communities. She is currently extending her previous collaborative work on Design Memoirs by creating Memory Machines, which are computational prototypes exploring the use of assistive AI techniques in auto-generating personal media memoirs for an audience of one. She also enjoys embroidering cross stitch memes and “bon mots” that reflect her state of mind. She has previously co-organized workshops at CHI, DRS, MM and TEI.
Anuradha Reddy is an independent design researcher based in Malmö, Sweden. With the help of concepts like patterns, grammar, and symmetries, Anuradha describes her creative process as a back-and-forth translation between heritage craft and computation. Some of her projects include QR code crocheted towels, a period tracker based on Islamic geometry, folk-embroidery-inspired two-factor authentication, and private encryption using crocheted keys.
Bruna Goveia da Rocha is assistant professor at the Department of Industrial Design of the Eindhoven University of Technology. Her work aims to advance research-through-making by exploring samples and sample making in the context of digital craftsmanship. Her practice focuses on explorative making, emerging technologies and cross pollination between techniques for textile innovation through a more-than-human perspective.
Elvia Vasconcelos is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Industrial Design of the Eindhoven University of Technology. Their work is grounded in the practice of sketchnoting, a live visual note-taking technique that they use to orchestrate collaborative processes. Elvia’s experience with organising and running workshops employs a combination of techniques such as collage, embroidery and zine making in order to make collective making processes visible.
Etta Sandry is a PhD student working in the Unstable Design Lab at the University of Colorado, Boulder’s ATLAS Institute. Her interdisciplinary work is rooted in weaving and situated within the expanded material practices field between contemporary art, craft, and creative research. She is recently focused on the praxis of material sampling and looks at craft practices of material testing and swatch making as valuable inquiry-based research methods. Etta has led textiles-based interpretive workshops in classroom and museum contexts such as the Museum of Jewish Montreal, Concordia University in Montreal, and the Textile Arts Center in New York.
Irene Posch is professor at the Department of Design and Technology at the University of Arts Linz, Austria, where she also directs the Crafting Futures Lab. Her research and practice explore the integration of technological development into the fields of art and craft, and vice versa, and social, cultural, technical and aesthetic implications thereof. She has previously co-organised workshops at CHI, PD, and TEI.
Kristina Andersen is associate professor at the Department of Industrial Design of the Eindhoven University of Technology. Her work is concerned with how we can allow each other to imagine our possible futures through digital craftsmanship in the context of material practices of fiber-based things. She is especially interested in ephemeral archives and how they might point towards physical manifestations of different outcomes. She has previously organized and led a number of workshops at CHI and DIS.
Laura Devendorf is a design researcher and assistant professor of Information Science with the ATLAS Institute at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her research develops tools and techniques for negotiating with material agencies in creative practice, with a strong focus on woven textiles and structures. Most recently, she has been fascinated with historic and contemporary craft practices and what they might teach research communities about sharing material knowledge. She has organized and led several workshops at CHI and DIS.
Lee Jones is a postdoctoral fellow with the iStudio at Queen’s University, Canada. In her research she develops DIY toolkits so individuals can design and create interactive soft technologies to suit their own needs. She also loves running community e-textile workshops at art galleries and makerspaces, and creating interactive participatory artworks.
Lone Koefoed Hansen is an associate professor of Digital Design at Aarhus University. Her research lies within digital technology studies, biased by aesthetics and the arts; it is interdisciplinary combining design, cultural studies, arts, and technology with theory and methods found in critical computing, co-design, STS, and feminist theory. A key point of her work is to use design and designing as something through which we might think of critical alternatives to the way we live, love, think, and organize.
Verena Fuchsberger is postdoc at the Human-Computer Interaction division at the University of Salzburg, Austria. In her research, she is interested in the socio-material configurations of designs and designing - including power relations, injustices, and agencies. She builds upon posthumanist, feminist thinking, aiming to understand, and contribute to, how hybrid realities are constantly re-shaped. She has co-organized several workshops at DIS, CHI, etc.
