Text + Textile +Technology

I have foounded the “Textility Lab” at Dartmouth College is an interdisciplinary research and making space dedicated to exploring weaving as an onto-epistemological, computational, and pedagogical practice. This lab examines how knowledge is produced, transformed, and embodied through the entanglement of materials, tools, bodies, and technologies. Drawing on theories of intra-action (Barad), correspondence and textility of making (Ingold), and textile-tectonics (Spuybroek), the Textility Lab positions weaving not as nostalgic craft but as a generative system of thought; one that bridges embodied practice with abstract, symbolic, and digital modes of design.Working across analogue looms, digital fabrication, algorithmic patterning, and archival research, the lab investigates weaving as both method and metaphor for architectural and spatial inquiry. Projects within the lab, from Text+Textile+Technology research to data-mapping, woven diagrams, and computational knotwork, foreground material intelligence, process-based learning, and the politics of craft. Through workshops, exhibitions, collaborations, and teaching initiatives, the Textility Lab cultivates a space where making and thinking are inseparable, and where craft becomes a lens for reimagining architectural history, design pedagogy, and technological culture.