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How might we co-design with a knitting machine to support the development of wearables? Could considering knit as a parametric material system enable diverse material knowledge sets of material science, digital design and knitting textile craft and technology to come together to create a rich inter-disciplinary space. This paper offers one such approach by conceptually considering knit as a parametric material system to support creative exploration and automated efficiencies grounded in material experiences. Both the opportunities and challenges are discussed. The paper highlights that a symbiotic entangling of analogue and digital practices is needed.
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Underwood, J. (2019). Parametric Stitching: Co-designing with Machines. In: Wong, W. (eds) Artificial Intelligence on Fashion and Textiles. AITA 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 849. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99695-0_26
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