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Cloth and Culture
Volume 10, 2012 - Issue 3
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Suggesting the Unstable: A Textile Architecture

Mette Ramsgard Thomsen Mette Ramsgard Thomsen is an architect working with digital technologies. Her research centers on the relationship between crafts and technology framed through “Digital Crafting” as a way of questioning how computation, code and fabrication challenge architectural thinking and material practices. Mette is a Professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, where she heads the Centre for Information Technology and Architecture [CITA].
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Karin Bech Karin Bech is an architect working with practice-based research at the Centre for IT and Architecture, in Copenhagen. She has been a collaborator on projects as Slow Furl, Thaw, and Thicket. In her work she explores the boundaries and relations between architecture and textile, asking how textile thinking challenges architecture. Karin Bech is also the co-founder of the architectural office Byen Sover, working with urban ideas and conceptual design projects. The practice of Byen Sover has led to a series of experimental and inventive projects generated from urban situation and strategies.
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