Knitting of Crafted Things: Digitizing Worlds in Textile Networks

How can we reshape our perception of crafting as the more-than-handiwork of more-than-human makers? Inspired by textile artifacts used for encoding and conveying knowledge, artist and designer Nayeli Vega will guide us through various perspectives on understanding the objects within the collections as knots and networks of information. The SpecLab, affiliated with the Department of Neurosurgery at Charité in Berlin, will demonstrate how neurosurgeons navigate the complexities of the brain using maps of knots and streamlines. Imagine if we could map and weave insights from creating museum objects into textile-like diagrams. Using 3D sketching tools and drawing from the intricate informational structures of knotted systems and the brain, we will invite museum visitors to explore spatial methods of encoding movement and understanding.

The workshop is part of a series of workshops and immersive participatory performances that offer an opportunity to engage with the embodied and fluid essence of tracing lines and being traced by them. It belongs to the new discursive platform »More than human. Design after the Anthropocene« curated by MoA member Claudia Banz.

»More-than-human sketching« repurposes an emerging digital design tool — 3D drawing — to explore the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin's (Museum of Decorative Arts) collections through collective acts of spatial sketching. Building upon the ongoing work of the Speculative Realities Lab (ExC Matters of Activity / Charité), workshop participants will collaboratively develop new scores for interactive augmented participative performances.

Attendees will receive an introduction to 3D sketching and then enact the scores to immerse themselves in the crafting processes embedded within the collection objects, embracing these active perspectives. In doing so, they will metaphorically become mycelium threads, absorbing the essence of object shapes (Movement I), and weaving intricate networks of meaning (Movement II).

The workshop includes short lectures and activities by Nayeli Vega Vargas, Paulina Greta Stefanovic, and Maxime Le Calvé.
The workshop will be held in English. Registration is required. Participation is free of charge. You can register for one or both days. The workshop is limited to 10 participants. Please register via mail to kotryna.slapsinskaite.1 [​at​] hu-berlin.de