Threadquarters | Studio Katharina Spitz

In a digital landscape where memes and algorithms reinforce polarisation, Studio Katharina Spitz (in collaboration with Threads & Tits) is exploring with the project Threadquarters how collective making processes can contribute to digital literacy and democratic awareness. Together with researchers and local institutions, a mobile textile studio will be set up in which participants respond to digital content via textiles. The results return to the online space as interventions. The first phase involves designing the mobile textile studio. Participants learn to critically question digital imagery by translating it into textiles. Participatory design and artistic research are combined to develop a transferable methodology.

The result is a tested prototype of the studio, an elaborated method and new knowledge about the role of craft within critical, digital education. The project forms the basis for a larger project in which the studio will be deployed in several places and the outcomes shared online.