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SUMMARY:Merit of Making
DESCRIPTION:Embroidered patches have a long and rich history cross-culturally\, functioning as symbols of status\, achievement\, and identity within communities. In this workshop\, we invite you to consider what skills and statuses are undervalued within contemporary society. How can a merit badge bring attention to invisible\, unseen\, or otherwise unappreciated forms of knowledge? \nParticipants will learn design techniques and software basics\, required to embroider different shapes\, textures\, and images\, in order to make their own merit badges using the digital thread placement machine at the Textiles and Materiality Cluster. The workshop will be 2 hours long\, with additional time reserved for participants to produce their designs. \n  \nParticipants are encouraged to bring design ideas to the workshop. \nLimited space available. Please e-mail textiles.materiality@concordia.ca to register for the workshop. \n  \n March 16\, 2025\n 1- 4 PM\nTextiles and Materiality Cluster Room EV 10.730
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/merit-of-making-2/
LOCATION:Textiles and Materiality Cluster (EV 10.730)
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Haptic Images Workshop
DESCRIPTION:In this workshop\, you will be introduced to the Pointcarré Textile CAD software for the Jacquard loom. You will learn the first steps of transforming an image into an intricately woven piece of cloth and how to turn your digital file into a haptic piece of art\, an image that you can touch and feel. You will explore the art of making an image by using the structures of crossed yarns in patterns that will shape its highlights and shadows\, hence simulating a fabric in which the raised design is incorporated into the weave instead of being printed or dyed on. \nFor this workshop\, you are invited to bring an image to work with. Please consider the following criteria when selecting an image: \n\nContrast: High contrast images are most successful. Please note that the final image will be converted to a grayscale\, but you are welcome to bring in colour images and convert them using Photoshop.\nResolution: Not too much detail—single objects\, portraits\, or simple landscapes work best. The resolution of the image will be brought down to 40 dpi\, so even a screen capture is acceptable.\nDimensions: Square format (but we can crop using Photoshop).\n\nThere are no prerequisites for this workshop. \nLimited space available. Registration on a first-come\, first-served basis. \nPlease e-mail textiles.materiality@concordia.ca to register! \n  \n March 13\, 2025\n 1- 4 PM\nTextiles and Materiality \n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/haptic-images-workshop-4/
LOCATION:Textiles and Materiality Cluster (EV 10.730)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260220T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260220T160000
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SUMMARY:Texting on Tajima
DESCRIPTION:Are you curious about adding textile embroidery to your research practice? \nJoin Textiles & Materiality for their upcoming Texting on Tajima workshop! \nIn this workshop\, you will learn design techniques and software basics required to embroider different text formats\, fonts\, and textures. You will have the opportunity to embroider your own quote using the digital thread placement machine at the Textiles and Materiality Cluster.  The workshop will be 2 hours long\, with additional time (approximately 20 minutes per person) reserved for participants to embroider their text. \n  \n February 20\, 2026\n 1-4 PM\n Textiles and Materiality Cluster Commons EV 10.730\n🎟️ Register by emailing textiles.materiality@concordia.ca
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/texting-on-tajima/
LOCATION:Textiles and Materiality Cluster (EV 10.730)
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260213T160000
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SUMMARY:Drawing with Threads
DESCRIPTION:What does Big Data look like? How do we visually materialize information? In this workshop\, Textiles and Materiality invites you to consider how data may be materialized through the transformation of vectors into simple embroidered forms. \nParticipants will learn design techniques and software basics required to stitch continuous line drawings onto textiles using colourful threads or yarns using the digital thread placement machine in the Textiles and Materiality Cluster. \nThe workshop will be 2 hours long\, with additional time reserved for participants to produce their designs. \n  \n  \n\n\n February 13\, 2026\n⏱️ 1-4 PM\n Textiles and Materiality Cluster Commons EV 10.730\nFirst come first serve
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/12157/
LOCATION:Textiles and Materiality Cluster (EV 10.730)
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Tactile Sound: Sensing the Audible
DESCRIPTION:This workshop aims to explore the senses by transforming the experience of sound from the auditory to the tactile and visual. How can we re-imagine the experience of sound via textiles and other material substrates? \nTogether with multi-disciplinary artists Ryth Kesselring and Geneviève Moisan\, participants will look at different computational and electronic platforms for integrating sound creation capabilities into textile and learn different methods of creating soft speakers\, affording opportunities for sound to be worn\, felt & viewed in different ways. \n  \nABOUT RYTH KESSELRING: \nBorn in Switzerland\, Ryth Kesselring moved to Québec during her childhood. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on sound\, textiles and the rhythms of craftsmanship as imprints of the textile memories. In her recent work she uses weaving\, sound\, electronics and plants to create interactive ecosystems that are reflecting on political and ecological issues. She is a MFA candidate in Studio Arts with a specialisation in Fibres and Material Practices at Concordia University. She worked as research assistant for different research-creation projects as for studio subTela where she worked on electronics and embroideries for interactive textiles. Ryth Kesselring’s work has been shown nationally and internationally through residencies and exhibitions. She is a recipient of several research grants and awards as the FRQSC scholarship and the Joseph-Armand-Bombardier scholarship. She is active as an educator offering studio art workshops and e-textile master classes. \n  \n  \nNovember 17\, 2025\n1-5 PM\nTextiles + Materiality Commons EV 10.730 \n🎟️ Spots are limited\, please make sure you register here to participate! \nMarc Beaulieu will get back to you within a few days to confirm your spot.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/tactile-sound/
LOCATION:Textiles and Materiality Cluster (EV 10.730)
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20250915T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20250915T163000
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SUMMARY:Textiles and Materiality All Cluster Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Join Textiles and Materiality Research Cluster for the first meeting of the term! \nThis event will be a great opportunity to connect with the T&M research community\, welcome cluster members both new and returning\, and to hear about cluster research activities\, upcoming workshops\, and important updates in the Fall Semester.\n\nIf you are a new member\, please do stop by and introduce yourself and your research interests. If you are a continuing member\, we would love to see you and hear about what you’ve been up to!\n\nWe will also have student research grant presentations\, research and activity proposals from cluster members\, and light refreshments.\n\n\n🗓 September  15\, 2025\n🕒 4:30 PM\n📍Textiles and Materiality Cluster  EV 10.730 \n🔗 Join the meeting online here.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/textiles-and-materiality-all-cluster-meeting/
LOCATION:Textiles and Materiality Cluster (EV 10.730)
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SUMMARY:Digital Decay Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a hands-on workshop that explores the generative potential of decay in digital and material images. From corrupted files to faded photocopies\, we will use processes like hacking\, glitching\, scanning and printing. Inspired by Hito Steyerl’s In Defence of the Poor Image and Legacy Russell’s Glitch Feminism\, we’ll rethink the aesthetics of deterioration. How can the ruin of an imager an archive or document open up new creative pathways? \nThis workshop is hosted by the Textiles & Materiality cluster and organized wit the support from Dr. Miranda Smitheram\, as part of a Milieux Institute Invrestigations micro grant. \nThis workshop is part of the Milieux Experiential Learning Workshop Series\, check out the full schedule here. \n  \n \n  \nAbout the Workshop Facilitators: \nMorris Fox (he/they) is a queer-gothic artist/writer\, and an Interdisciplinary Humanities PhD candidate at Concordia (Tiohtiá:ke-Mooniyang-Montréal). Fox’s practice cruises the haunted house for feelings of community. Words and materials become a net that enmeshes\, becoming a necropolis\, a cemetery of desire. He interconnects eco-poetry\, self-performance\, VR\, video\, textiles\, chainmaille\, with queer material research\, rubbing against ruins of memory\, shimmering with apocalyptic imaginaries. His work seeks to “put the fun in funeral.” \nAlexey Lazarev (he/him) is a multidisciplinary visual artist and third year Print MFA student at Concordia\, exploring different facets of queer identities and migration: conflicts between personal and collective memories\, formation and evolution of hybrid identities and the emotional side of belonging to a marginalized community. He investigates these themes using personal and found archives. Fascinated by how centuries-old methods of imagemaking adapt to the needs of contemporary society\, Lazarev examines the interplay between print traditions and emergent technologies\, focusing on the unorthodox application of print media\, such as alternative ways of editioning\, the use of 2D prints to create 3D installations and relief transfer on surfaces such as clay or plaster\, creating his own material ecologies. \n  \n🗓 September  9\, 2025\n🕒 1-5 PM\n📍Textiles and Materiality Cluster EV 10.730 \n🎟️ To register please confirm your spot by emailing T&M Cluster Coordinator
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/digital-decay-workshop/
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CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Haptic Images Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Curious about the Jacquard loom and how you can integrate it in your artistic practice? Join Geneviève Moisan for an introduction to the Pointcarré Textile software for the Jacquard Loom. \n\nOnce a vitrine for innovation\, the first Jacquard images were inspired by the popular imagery of the time and produced by different ateliers as a way for them to demonstrate their technical proficiency. In a contemporary context\, we have become over-saturated with images\, leading us to question which images warrant materialization\, and why. \n\nIn this workshop\, you will learn the first steps of transforming an image into an intricately woven piece of cloth and how to turn your digital file into a haptic piece of art: an image that you can touch and feel. You will explore the art of making an image by using the structures of crossed yarns in patterns that will shape its highlights and shadows\,  simulating a fabric in which the raised design is incorporated into the weave instead of being printed or dyed on. \n\n\nFor this workshop\, you are invited to bring an image to work with. Please consider the following criteria when selecting an image:\n\nContrast: High contrast images are most successful. Please note that the final image will be converted to a grayscale\, but you are welcome to bring in colour images and convert them using Photoshop.\nResolution: Not too much detail—single objects\, portraits\, or simple landscapes work best. The resolution of the image will be brought down to 60 dpi\, so even a screen capture is acceptable.\nDimensions: Square format (but we can crop using Photoshop).\n\nNote: Only experienced weavers are authorized to operate the Jacquard loom. There is a possibility to have your image woven in the weeks after the workshop in a size of about 12 x 12 inches.\n\nThere are no prerequisites for this workshop. ​Limited space available. Registration on a first-come\, first-served basis.\n\nInstruction will be given in the Cluster Commons (EV 10.730)\, followed by independent work on individual computers in separate rooms.\n\n\n🚨 This workshop is for Textiles and Materiality members only!\n\n📅: December 09\, 2024 | 1-4 PM\n📍: EV 10.730\n🎟️: Please e-mail textiles.materiality@concordia.ca to register.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/haptic-images-workshop-2/
LOCATION:Textiles and Materiality Cluster (EV 10.730)
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20241122T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20241122T160000
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SUMMARY:Haptic Images Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Curious about the Jacquard loom and how you can integrate it in your artistic practice? Join Geneviève Moisan for an introduction to the Pointcarré Textile software for the Jacquard Loom. \n\nOnce a vitrine for innovation\, the first Jacquard images were inspired by the popular imagery of the time and produced by different ateliers as a way for them to demonstrate their technical proficiency. In a contemporary context\, we have become over-saturated with images\, leading us to question which images warrant materialization\, and why. \n\nIn this workshop\, you will learn the first steps of transforming an image into an intricately woven piece of cloth and how to turn your digital file into a haptic piece of art: an image that you can touch and feel. You will explore the art of making an image by using the structures of crossed yarns in patterns that will shape its highlights and shadows\,  simulating a fabric in which the raised design is incorporated into the weave instead of being printed or dyed on. \n\n\nFor this workshop\, you are invited to bring an image to work with. Please consider the following criteria when selecting an image:\n\nContrast: High contrast images are most successful. Please note that the final image will be converted to a grayscale\, but you are welcome to bring in colour images and convert them using Photoshop.\nResolution: Not too much detail—single objects\, portraits\, or simple landscapes work best. The resolution of the image will be brought down to 60 dpi\, so even a screen capture is acceptable.\nDimensions: Square format (but we can crop using Photoshop).\n\nNote: Only experienced weavers are authorized to operate the Jacquard loom. There is a possibility to have your image woven in the weeks after the workshop in a size of about 12 x 12 inches.\n\nThere are no prerequisites for this workshop. ​Limited space available. Registration on a first-come\, first-served basis.\n\nInstruction will be given in the Cluster Commons (EV 10.730)\, followed by independent work on individual computers in separate rooms.\n\n\n🚨 This workshop is for Textiles and Materiality members only!\n\n📅: November 22\, 2024 | 1-4 PM\n📍: EV 10.730\n🎟️: Please e-mail textiles.materiality@concordia.ca to register.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/haptic-images-workshop/
LOCATION:Textiles and Materiality Cluster (EV 10.730)
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231127T193000
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SUMMARY:Icelandic Field School Information Session
DESCRIPTION:Kathleen Vaughan will give an information session about the Icelandic Field school and courses!\nReturning June 1-30\, 2024\, The Iceland Field School is a 3-credit mixed level (BFA to PhD – ARTE 398/660/850 Imagining Iceland) artist’s residency in north Iceland\, with a fibre arts inflection! \nOpen to current Concordia students. \nThe Iceland Field School (IFS) is sited at the Icelandic Textile Centre\, an academic research centre and artistic residency in Blönduós\, Iceland\, during the endless daylight of June. Students create individualized\, interdisciplinary artistic projects in media including textiles\, photography\, video\, performance\, drawing\, environmental art\, graphic novels\, book arts\, writing\, or academic work on themes of museum studies\, community development\, tourism\, and hospitality studies. We learn using a place-based\, post-humanist lens\, and consider environmental issues important to Iceland\, Canada\, and the world. We aim to give back to our host community as well as to receive. \nCoursework includes workshops with Icelandic experts in tapestry weaving\, spinning wool\, and natural dyeing with locally foraged plants\, plus a talk by a notable Iceland-based artist. Students learn with place as they focus on their independent creative work. Students have double occupancy accommodation in two buildings (the heritage Kvennaskólinn or Women’s School) and House 35\, and share kitchen\, laundry\, and bathroom facilities. The Centre provides a large\, shared studio\, weaving loft and looms (experienced weavers only)\, natural dye shed\, and a digitally-enabled classroom. Not suitable for those with mobility challenges. Non-toxic processes only. \nThe Iceland Field School is designed and led by Kathleen Vaughan\, Concordia University Chair in Art + Education for Sustainable and Just Futures and Professor of Art Education. kathleen.vaughan@concordia.ca. Find out more at information sessions with Kathleen (mandatory prior to application): \n• Tues\, Nov 21 2 to 4 p.m. (EV2.645)\n• Mon\, Nov 27 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. (EV10.730)\n• Thurs Dec 7\, 1 to 3 p.m. (EV5.825)\n• Tues\, Jan 16 2:30 p.m. by Zoom (will be recorded and available on the Concordia International website) \nhttps://concordia-ca.zoom.us/j/86567964479?pwd=Y2Yrc1JIQlJFU0NyTTJKdUdldDdOQT09 \nApplication period is online\, January 18 to February 8\, 2024\, at Concordia International: \nhttps://www.concordia.ca/students/exchanges/field-schools.html \nApplications must include a letter of intent\, portfolio\, transcript\, and may include an interview. \nProgram cost is CAD$3650 (accommodation and workshops) PLUS the cost of a 3-credit course\, which varies depending on level of study and place of home residency. You may be eligible for financial aid in the form of a Quebec Mobility Bursary ($1500TBC) and/or a Thomson Family Field School Bursary ($1300). You must also pay your own travel costs\, food\, medical insurance\, art supplies\, and incidental costs. \nCome and find out more about this transformational opportunity to study\, make\, and live under June’s midnight sun in northwest Iceland!
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/icelandic-field-school-information-session/
LOCATION:Textiles and Materiality Cluster (EV 10.730)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230921T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230921T180000
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SUMMARY:Projecthandstitch
DESCRIPTION:An initative between Pramila Choudhary (PhD\, Geography and Environmental Studies\, Textile Designer and Artist) and Sayali Goyal (Textile Artist\, Editor Cocoa & Jasmine) \n\n\nPramila Choudhary has arranged a presentation for the Textile and Materiality Research Cluster of Milieux Institute for Arts\, Culture\, and Technology at Concordia University. Inviting Sayali Goyal from Cocoa & Jasmine the purpose of this talk is to foster discussions about worldwide artisan communities\, the operation of a cultural business\, and the valuable perspectives gained from the interplay between craft and design collaborations. Cocoa & Jasmine is an independent print publication and cultural agency. \nAbout Pramila Choudhary \nPramila serves as both the founder and creative leader of the Projecthandstitch Blog initiative\, which was established in 2017. This initiative began with an open project involving creating 12-month hand-stitched garments\, aiming to delve into the concept of slow fashion and foster a global community. Through this journey\, they have explored 28 distinct handmade crafts and brought together 32 participants\, fostering the exchange of knowledge\, promoting slow fashion\, and advocating textile practices in everyday life. The project’s progress has been documented on Instagram and within a private Facebook group. \nContinuing into the subsequent year\, #projecthandstitch has continued to spotlight diverse global and local handmade practices\, individuals\, and conversations within the community. You can connect with them on Instagram @projecthandstitch \nPramila’s background includes studying textile design at NID (National Institute of Design\, India) and HSLU (Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts\, Switzerland). Since then\, she has collaborated with various craft communities in India\, engaged in international craft-based initiatives\, and partnered with brands in the US and UK. Additionally\, she practices as a textile artist\, utilizing pre-consumer waste and natural materials. Her expertise extends to teaching design students at NID and NIFT (National Institute of Fashion Technology)\, where she imparts knowledge on sustainability\, craft studies\, design thinking\, surface development\, fabric construction\, hybrid textile structures\, and material explorations. \nAbout Sayali Goyal \nSayali is the Founder and creative director of Cocoa and Jasmine (www.cocoaandjasmine.com) an independent print publication and cultural agency that focuses on global creative communities and facilitates cross cultural connections. The magazine has researched\, documented and published stories on various craft communities from India and around the world. Apart from the print magazine\, her practice also extends to curating exhibitions\, penels\, residencies\, journalism\,  ethnographic visual research as well as strategy for some of the leading companies in India and Internationally. She studied surface textiles at the University of arts London and since then has created a series of textile art and exhibited her works in Delhi\, Mumbai\, London and San Francisco. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/projecthandstitch/
LOCATION:Textiles and Materiality Cluster (EV 10.730)
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