Gathering Textiles at CHI: Convening a Meeting to Share, Make, and Speculate

CHI is becoming home to an emerging community of researchers and practitioners engaging with textiles as a design and research material. This work is spread across a range of areas from digital fabrication to haptics. This workshop offers the opportunity for the broad community of HCI researchers to share techniques and ideas that underpin textile practices at CHI. Knitting, weaving, embroidery, hand-stitching, quilting, garment making, dying, felting, paper making, etc. offer distinct functional and aesthetic qualities while engaging similar modes of working. We propose this workshop to create a meeting place for CHI researchers engaging textiles in any capacity. We suggest a day of skill sharing and collective speculating grounded in the textiles techniques and histories of Japan.