Soft Boundaries II
Creative Scholarship
Digital Knitting

In collaboration with Krissi Riewe Stevenson (KSU Fashion)
Create+ Software programming with Stoll ADF3 E7.2 machine in the Kent State KnitLab at the School of Fashion and the SoftLab at the College of Design, University of Kentucky

Unifi REPREVE® recycled polyester, polyester-spandex yarns, Styrofoam

Soft Boundaries II uses digital knitting technology to construct a modular partition system for interior spaces. Just as clothing defines the physical body, interior designs create spaces that shape the experience of the body in these settings. This prototype is knit as a single panel using recycled polyester and spandex yarns. The structure is a series of channels stuffed with foam noodles then supported structurally with metal pipe, allowing for various configurations.


Space + Body: Intersections between Architecture, Interiors, and Fashion using Digital Knitting
Creative Scholarship

Ongoing
In collaboration with Krissi Riewe Stevenson (KSU Fashion)
Stoll M1+ and Create+ Software programming with Stoll ADF3 and CMS+ machines in the Kent State KnitLab at the School of Fashion

“Soft Boundaries”, Creative Scholorship, Best in Show, International Textile and Apparel Association (ITAA), Fall 2022
“Space and the Body: Knitted textiles in Architecture + Fashion”, Shared Faculty Studio Project Use at the Kent State Design Innovation Hub, Summer 2022

The use digital knit programming and production to explore human interactions with space through interdisciplinary collaboration between interior and apparel design. My specific area of research/scholarship is the use of 3D digital knitting technology in developing sensory and spatial applications in architecture and interior design and connecting research on space and the body with collaborators in the School of Fashion.


Not Neutral: Architectural
Elements + Power


2020—2021 Schidlowski Emerging Faculty Fellowship
Kent State University
College of Architecture and Environmental Design

Exhibition on view: April 7—June 1, 2021



Architecture is not neutral. While the built environment is often considered an invisible backdrop to our everyday lives, in reality it has a profound impact on our cultural, economic, political, and social conditions. From the single-family house to sprawling institutional campuses, each is a product of the architectural discipline, and by extension, architects.

The research presented here utilizes seven common building elements to evaluate Architecture’s role in the physical and psychological forces of human behavior, through the lens of power, privilege, and oppression. The deliberate use of the language of architecture, the drawing, communicates an immediate imperative to address Architecture’s biases, blind spots, and harm through the role of elements in our everyday lives.





Knit Digital
Design Research
Ongoing
In collaboration with Krissi Riewe Stevenson (KSU Fashion)

Digital CNC knitting, produced on an industrial Stoll knitting machine, programmed using M1-Plus Software. These explorations explore space, structure, material, technique, and affect.

 
Weaving Workshop
Design Research
Ongoing

Explorations of weaving in three-dimensions, using a variety of materials, from yarn, to traditional basket-weaving reed, and elastic. Working within a cube, some of these studies are tensile and can’t be separated from their form, the reed, pliable when wet, will dry and become structural. These studies are an initial experiment with deploying material learning, established techniques, and pattern as a mode of teaching design. These exercises may become an exciting way to both teach and practice the art of creative exploration and form making through new/old methods of design thinking, testing, and materiality.