Aural Textiles. Hybrid practices for data-driven design.

Abstract

This paper explores the developing co-creative relationships that arise through integrating digital making and data-driven processes as inspiration within collaborative distributed networks of design and making. It draws upon a year-long case study of landscape sound digital pattern design with a group of textile practitioners from across Scotland. The aim is to understand how these collective ‘hybrid ways of making’ between digital data-driven design and analogue maker impacts the overall democratisation of textile design and manufacturing and influences the makers’ practice.