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.

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