Textile Objections: Interferences and Digital-Textile Activism

Abstract

In this paper we analyze three ways in which materiality and artisanal textile making interfere how we relate to the design of digital technologies. First, is the way in which textiles sustain the digital, revealing networks of work and care that support the design of technologies. The second involves ways in which textile making transforms the languages of design into engineering, allowing the emergence of affective dimensions of design. And thirdly, the way in which the temporalities of textile making slow the pace of values of efficiency and productivity found in engineering.

Material Textile Gestures; Knowledge Dialogues; Digital-Textile Making; Interferences