Once a slow and reflective handcraft embodying a designer/maker’s skill, mood and imaginations, knitting has been automated through computer-aided design(CAD) and manufacturing technologies(CAM), reducing the role of the textile designer in the processes of textile production.
In response to this and the increasing dichotomy between designer/maker and the textile production process (Philpott, 2012), Procedural knit presents an exploration into the design space of “underdetermined fabrication”, an approach wherein interactive making systems and procedural rules guide but do not determine the final outcome.
Task: How can we imbue a sense of the maker in machine made textiles?
