See you at Intersections

Laura Devendorf, Deanna Gelosi, and Etta Sandry will be traveling to Textile Intersections at Imperial College London to present a series of projects including a paper about a new cross-sections operation in AdaCAD.

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News

  • We're Hiring We will be recruiting new PhD students and will soon post a position for a community manager for the AdaCAD project
  • New Grants! We recently received two new grants from the National Science Foundation. One to expand outreach for the AdaCAD project and the other to investigate pathways to reproducible woven technologies

Upcoming Events

  • Experimental Weaving and Drafting Workshop Sheffield Pattern Club, Sheffield, UK, September 14, 2026 Laura will lead a workshop introducing AdaCAD, paper weaving, and generating experimental lift plans for an 8-shaft loom.
  • Textile Intersections Imperial College London, September 16-20 Deanna will present a paper on a cross-section design feature she developed for AdaCAD; Laura will present a paper about how we have come to see the experimental weaving community through a year of AdaCAD outreach activities; and in the exhibition, Etta will show new woven work and the lab will present Resistance: Digital Weaving to Save the World, written collaboratively with Poppy DeltaDawn, and accompanying weaving resources.
  • SECAC Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Oct 21-24 Etta and Steven will each present at SECAC under the conference’s annual theme, Interwoven: Threads, Patterns & Disruptions.
  • UIST 2026 Detroit, MI, USA, November 2-5, 2026 Deanna present a poster on CompactPack: From 3D Objects to Fabricable Packaging Inserts

Work in Progress

  • Steven Frost Mile High Pride Flag is currently on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver. In October, they will host a workshop at MCA and will be presenting at Out Maine. They are also working with Etta on archival research about the Lowell Mill Girls.
  • Laura Devendorf Laura is back from sabbatical and is gearing up for a range of new outreach activities and programs around Experimental Weaving.
  • Eldy Lazaro Successfully defended her dissertation Biodesign for Interactive Textiles: Dissolution as a Design Strategy for Interaction and Sustainability
  • Deanna Gelosi Deanna is testing and refining the cross-sections operation in AdaCAD in addition to developing some new software for creatively generating 3D forms. She’s also working with Etta on a research project exploring woven structures inspired by native plants found in the Front Range region.
  • Etta Sandry Etta is continuing work on archival research about the Lowell Mill Girls as the final project within their PhD Dissertation, which is focused on sample making as a knowledge-generating praxis.