🧶 Join us for a one-day skill share and speculation at CHI 2025.

This workshop will take place on Saturday April 26 at the Silk Museum in Yokohama Japan. It is intended for anyone attending CHI who engages (or is interested in engaging) textile craft materials and techniques in their research. In it, we will share some of our materials, objects, tools, and patterns, develop new skills and speculate on future research directions. Our Japanese colleagues will bring materials, samples, and compile resources prior to the workshop that will form the basis of our making and speculating activities. Our goal is to create a space for practitioners across CHI to connect and share their soft practices. By doing so, we hope to advance textiles at CHI by building a collective awareness of possibilities and practices.

Update: Workshop will Take Place at the Silk Museum on Saturday April 26

In response to participants and organizers who also wanted to attend the Design Stories Workshop on Sunday April 27, we have moved our workshop to Saturday April 26 AND decided to host it offsite at the Silk Museum in Yokohama. Hosting the workshop at the Silk Museum will allow us to share and speculate and also explore local materials and tools used to process and produce silk textiles.

Call for Participants

We invite submissions in the form of a short 250-word description and visual documentation of a found or self-made textile object, pattern, material or tool alongside a 250-word reflection on how it may be seen to hold both knowledges and questions. Please submit this via this Google Form. Submissions should be received by February 13 AoE. Please indicate in your submission if you plan on attending CHI in person or not. ...