Weaving Spaces

Weaving Spaces harnesses the age-old communal practices of weaving and knitting to explore human presence and connection. Framed as an experiment, Weaving Spaces navigates how participants at an event can share stories and knowledge across online and physical environments. 

Set-up

At hybrid events, online and on-site audiences experience the same programme from different locations. Weaving Spaces allows these audiences to become more connected by creating something together. We invite both audiences to share their experience of the event via the Weaving Spaces web application.

Are they joining online or on-site? How do they feel? What surface is beneath their feet? Their answers translate into a knitting pattern – sometimes abstract and untrackable, sometimes very obvious. The pattern can be live-knitted to a scarf or ordered afterwards on request. The scarf consists of emotions, keywords, collaborative pixel drawings, and abstract data visualisations summing up the experience of all visitors.

Credits

Concept by affect lab and The Hmm.
App development, software programming and arduino programming for the knitting machine by Arjan Scherpenisse.
App interface design by Guus Hoeberechts, based on the Toolkit for the Inbetween.
Weaving Spaces is an experiment as part of the Toolkit for the Inbetween.