Department of Design

This project explores the intersection of craft and industry, reality and fiction, application and exploration, by focusing on the scaleability of regional regeneration through tool-making. The tools to loosen fibres and felt volumes respond to local material variances and the multispecies realities of wool, operating at the mid-scale of alpine flock sizes. To reconfigure the representation of wool as a uniform resource, I remap a sheep’s fleece in a new way. The layers provide a contrast to the industrial categorisation of material value and the absurdity of standardising nature, proposing a shift in the perception of materials, from isolated resources to entangled matter.