2010

A day-long workshop during which participants can come and go, contributing to knitting textile composite objects, furniture and installations.

Circular knitting machines are used to knit tubes that can be fully or partially dipped or otherwise drenched in wet plaster. These can then be sculpted into various forms using cardboard and inflatable structures to give them shape and volume. As the plaster sets, the structure is maintained (see images). These sculpted composites can then be integrated in the existing environment.

The aim of the workshop is to bring people together to participate in an outdoor activity that explores the hard and soft properties of textiles in order to make big and small, delicate and sturdy structures.

In the evening, lights can be mounted inside the hangings, illuminating their structures

Sweat Lodge

The first iteration of this workshop took place during the SOCS Sweat Lodge Event on Friday 21st May 2010 outside the MIT Media Lab.
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Thanks to Amanda Moore and Ryan O’Toole for organizing the Sweat Lodge and to Friedrich Kirschner for helping with the workshop.