Experimental Weaving Residency
Poppy DeltaDawn
Spring 2025
Poppy DeltaDawn’s practice and research are invested in lineages of making and labor, and she is resolved to finding agency, autonomy, and resistance through the act of weaving cloth. We think that Poppy’s practice creates a beautiful blending of structure and concept, as well as materiality and politics.
Kathryn Walters
Fall 2023
Kathryn Walters is currently a PhD researcher at the Swedish School of Textiles who elegantly pushes the boundaries of woven structure, her work demonstrates techniques for self-shaping, shape changing materials and structures.
Topics explored: actuating over-twisted cellulose yarns. Bio-inspired design.
- Animated Linen
Associated Publication
Kathryn Walters, Laura Devendorf, Karin Landahl. "".In:DIS '24: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. (July 1, 2024).
Elizabeth Meiklejohn
Spring 2023
Elizabeth Meiklejohn's practice combines garment design, custom software development, woven structure and a really inspiring practice of hacking and building her own equipment to explore new possibilities for woven structure. Her aesthetic beautifully crosses the digital and physical, often playing at the intersection with simulations as much as shimmering multilayer structures.
Topics explored: electromagnetics, cloth, partial weft structures, light scattering, soft sensing, lattice structures, collaboration with Irene Posch
- Design Bookkeeping
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Associated Publication
Elizabeth Meiklejohn, Laura Devendorf, Irene Posch. "". In: DIS '24: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. (July 1, 2024).
Etta Sandry
2022
Etta Sandry's practice resonated strongly with our mission for the residency: to collaboratively produce techniques in response to specific engineering challenges. As a recently graduated MFA student at Concordia, Etta’s practice demonstrates an attention and commitment to sampling and exploring the unique structural formations of multi-layer weaving.
Topics explored: sampling as method, waffles, self pleating structures, felting, sampling club.
Associated Publications
Laura Devendorf, Kathryn Walters, Marianne Fairbanks,Etta Sandry,Emma R. Goodwill. 2023. “”. In:CHI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems(Hamburg, Germany, April 23-28, 2023).
Laura Devendorf,Sasha De Koninck, andEtta Sandry. 2022. . In: Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’22). (June 13-17, 2022—Virtual Event, Australia).[Best Pictorial Honorable Mention Award].
Sandra Wirtanen
2019
Wirtanen collaborated with university researchers and local partners to conceptualize and develop textiles that engage technology in their design, production and concept, including data-driven or generative design of textiles, textiles with embedded functionality, and textiles that embody critical perspectives of technology and society.
Topics explored: dry electrodes, elastics, integrated electronics, routing wires through cloth.
Associated Publication
Laura Devendorf, Katya Arquilla, Sandra Wirtanen, Allison Anderson, and Steven Frost. 2020. ". In: Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’20).(Honolulu, Hawaii (virtual)–April 25-30, 2020).[Honorable Mention Award]
Associated Researchers
Additional Researchers
Allie Anderson, assistant professor, Bioserve Space Technologies, CU Boulder
Grants
NSF CAREER
Center for Craft Materials-Based Research Grant
Publications
Laura Devendorf,Sasha De Koninck, andEtta Sandry. 2022. . In: Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’22). (June 13-17, 2022—Virtual Event, Australia).[Best Pictorial Honorable Mention Award].
Laura Devendorf, Katya Arquilla, Sandra Wirtanen, Allison Anderson, and Steven Frost. 2020. . In: Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’20). (Honolulu, Hawaii (virtual)–April 25-30, 2020). [Honorable Mention Award].