Echoing Memories
ashes . voices . human . non - human . multiplicity. land tales . forest
ashes . voices . human . non - human . multiplicity. land tales . forest
2024 _ knitted bio-composite column
Exhibited: Is One Life Enough?, Milan Design Week / Isola Design Festival, 2024
Awarded: Vanguard Award, ACADIA 2024, for the accompanying paper Bridging Pixels and Fabrication: Enhancing Accessibility in CNC Knitting for Architectural Design
Supported by: Architectural Research Fund, UCL
Echoing Memories is a textile sculpture created in response to the Mediterranean forest fires of 2021. It acts as a tribute to ravaged landscapes, translating human and non-human voices into knitted patterns. Factual data, personal reflections, and imagined echoes of burning trees are woven together, with each stitch becoming a carrier of memory, loss, and ecological witness.
The textile is infused with an ash-based hydrogel made from material gathered from the wildfire site. As the hydrogel solidifies, it stiffens the cloth and gives the sculpture its final form. Through this merging of textile craft, biomaterial experimentation, and storytelling, the work becomes a way of listening to the land and staying with the trouble of environmental change.