Mediated Crafts: Digital Practices around Creative Handwork

摘要

In this submission, I discuss my design research and fieldwork investigating mediated crafts-digital practices around creative handwork. Specifically, I study how creating and sharing digital information around knitting or crochet activity affects the social and material relationships enacted through craft. Here I review my qualitative research on the role of digital resources in creative handwork and the iterative design of Spyn, mobile phone software that associates digital records of the creative process-captured through audio/visual media, text, and geographic data-with physical locations on handmade fabric.