# Crafting Futures Lab ## Posts - [Monja Hirscher](https://craftingfutures.net/monja-hirscher/): I am a designer and researcher with a background in product design. Currently, I work as a Senior Artist and PhD Candidate at the Crafting Futures Lab at the University of Art and Design Linz, supervised by Irene Posch, where I am involved in teaching and research. In my research, I explore the processes of […] - [Julia Moser](https://craftingfutures.net/julia-moser/): Aged trees, fresh offsprings, 1000 different tones of green, rose, red… the magic beauty of nature follows patterns, but lies in variation and imperfection. A melody needs breaks to breathe. A pattern design as well. No leaf of one tree is like another, but all of them are leaves, part of one tree. The variation […] - [Irene Posch](https://craftingfutures.net/irene-posch/): I’m a researcher and artist with a background in media and computer science. My work explores the integration of technological development into the fields of art and craft, and vice versa, and social, cultural, technical and aesthetic implications thereof. I am Professor of Design and Technology at the University of Art and Design Linz where […] - [From Experience to Insight: Entangled Learning in Craft-Based Design Practices](https://craftingfutures.net/from-experience-to-insight-entangled-learning-in-craft-based-design-practices/): REFERENCE ABSTRACTIn this paper we discuss process-oriented and craft-based design practice as an educational approach and in its role in design and propose it as a context for acquiring experiential knowledge. We discuss the extent to which such a design practice is informed by its context and entanglements and the learnings that arise from them. […] - [IASDR Conference](https://craftingfutures.net/iasdr-conference-2025/): Monja Hirscher gives a presentation at the IASDR Conference 2025 in Taipei, Taiwan - [Unlearning Design](https://craftingfutures.net/unlearning-design/): Julia Moser will be part of the Unlearning Design workshop and roundtable at University of Arts Linz - [TEDxKollerschlag](https://craftingfutures.net/https-www-tedxkollerschlag-com/): Julia Moser gives a presentation at TEDxKollerschlag - [Matters of Slag](https://craftingfutures.net/matters-of-slag/): The Matters of Slag project explores the residues of mining and their aesthetic, technological, and social implications on both a material and conceptual level. In Austria, iron ore has been mined and processed into metals for centuries. Every everyday metal object—be it a screw, a fork, or a bridge—is no longer connected to its original […] - [Ars Electronica Festival 2025](https://craftingfutures.net/ars-electronica-festival-2025/): For the fifth time, we are opening our lab to the public as part of the Ars Electronica Festival. Visitors are invited to explore evolving processes, conversations, and collaborations that shape our work in crafting practices that hold space for new narratives, educational approaches, and connected artifacts to evolve. Installations, prototypes, and annotated experiments offer […] - [Outlining the Experience of a Process-Oriented Practice Towards Foregrounding Entanglements in Design Education](https://craftingfutures.net/outlining-the-experience-of-a-process-oriented-practice-towards-foregrounding-entanglements-in-design-education/): REFERENCE ABSTRACTIf design is understood in a posthumanist sense as a practice that creates encounters between human and non-human actors, it can be interesting to look at the encounters or entanglements rather than at the things that emerge, as these develop the practitioner in the form of relationships, experiences, and learnings. The text traces the […] - [LearnXDesign Conference](https://craftingfutures.net/learnxdesign-2025/): Monja Hirscher gives a presentation at the LearnXDesign Conference 2025 in Aveiro, Portugal - [What it is, What it could be](https://craftingfutures.net/what-it-is-what-it-could-be/): A collection of swatches, samples, and samplers documenting evolving themes and approaches explored in and around the Crafting Futures Lab. The selection emphasizes processes of experimentation and discovery, rather than finished artefacts, offering insight into how ideas are developed and tested and highlighting the Lab’s core practices. All short texts about the projects can be […] - [Shared Authorship](https://craftingfutures.net/shared-authorship/): A series of two-part objects exploring the interplay between human intention and algorithmic imagination. Each object was physically divided and digitally extended through AI, creating hybrid forms that question authorship, collaboration, and the evolving relationship between craft and computation. - [Grown & Drawn](https://craftingfutures.net/grown-drawn/): This work explores the meeting point between the growth of plants and human design. The structures and outlines of barks and branches are difficult to grasp but approximated and extended through careful measurement and digital drawing, translated into 3D-printed forms. The natural and the artificial are not treated as opposites, but as continuous parts of […] - [ETN summer jumble](https://craftingfutures.net/etn-summer-jumble/): Julia Moser is giving a talk on “The Alchemy of Living Pigments: Bacteria and the Future of Textile Dyeing” at the ETN summer jumble 2025, running from 18/07–20/07/2025 at the Textile Center Haslach. PROGRAM 18/07/2025:Registration and welcome, tour through the Textile Center Haslach and Archive, finissages of the workshop week 1, workshop with Delphine Léger, […] - [Schauen tut man mit den Händen!](https://craftingfutures.net/schauen-tut-man-mit-den-handen/): 2025 - [DenkBrücke](https://craftingfutures.net/denkbrucke/): 2025 - [Selbstorganisiertes Lernen mit Holz](https://craftingfutures.net/selbstorganisiertes-lernen-mit-holz/): 2025 - [Fidget-Toolkit](https://craftingfutures.net/fidget-toolkit/): 2025 - [PULPME](https://craftingfutures.net/pulpme/): 2025 - [When Soft Actuators Meet Textiles](https://craftingfutures.net/when-soft-actuators-meet-textiles/): Two ongoing projects from the Lab will be shown as part of the SOFTWEAR exhibition in Linz - [Hands on Glass](https://craftingfutures.net/hands-on-glass/): 2025 - [Growing Colours. Living Pigments](https://craftingfutures.net/wachsende-farben-lebendige-pigmente-2/): Julia Moser gives a talk and workshop at the University of Fine Arts Munich 26/05/2025: Talk Wachsende Farben Lebendige Pigmente about textile bacterial dyeing 27/05/2025: Workshop Grown Textiles. Neue Materialien durch Fermentation about creating textile-like materials with SCOBY - [Gathering Textiles at CHI](https://craftingfutures.net/gathering-textiles-at-chi/): Co-hosting a workshop about Textiles at CHI 2025 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Japan - [Crafting Conscious Fashion Futures](https://craftingfutures.net/crafting-conscious-fashion-futures/): A project course held weekly from March – June 2024, led by Julia Moser, Katharina Sand, Tim van der Loo, Irene Posch. COURSE DESCRIPTION:What will the fashion of tomorrow look like? What stories do sustainable materials tell? And how can we translate our visions into poetic, aesthetic and environmentally conscious designs? In this course, we […] - [Meister*in und Musterstück](https://craftingfutures.net/meisterin-und-musterstuck/): A project course held weekly from October 24 to February 25, led by Monja Hirscher, Irene Posch, Judit Eszter Kárpáti, and Petra Vicinová COURSE DESCRIPTIONWhich technique would you like to learn (better), and why? Which material particularly appeals to you, and which doesn’t? Which craft process or practitioner inspires you? What personal aspirations do you […] - [Textile Design Futures Symposium](https://craftingfutures.net/textile-design-futures/): Irene Posch presents at the Textile Design Futures symposium – Dialogues on Temporal, Unpredictable, and Multisituated Textile Experiences organised by Holly McQuillan together with The Centre of Design Research for Regenerative Material Ecologies, and TU Delft | Industrial Design Engineering, January 10, 2025 at TU Delft, NL. PROGRAM:14:15 – 14:30Doors open 14:30 – 14:40Welcome and […] - [Creating new materials with bacteria and robots](https://craftingfutures.net/creating-new-materials-with-bacteria-and-robots/): Julia Moser is giving a talk about Growing Patterns Living Pigments in the frame of the event Mit Bakterien und Robotern zu neuen Stoffen at Kepler Salon Linz on 16/12/2024. with: Ute Ploier, Christiane Luible-Bär, Peter Holzinger, Julia Moser, Johannes Heitz, Sandra-Laura Axinte, Gitti Vasicek - [Mineral Pigments](https://craftingfutures.net/mineral-pigments/): Workshop with Petra Vicianová on mineral pigments in the Crafting Futures Lab. In this workshop, Petra Vicianová shared her unique approach to extracting mineral pigments for use in textile printing. We were able to immerse ourselves in her practice and even collect minerals along the Danube near the University of Arts Linz to create our […] - [Ephemeral Iron. Aesthetics of Decay](https://craftingfutures.net/ephemeral-iron-aesthetics-of-decay/): Salt, metals, rust, dyeing, blaze, beauty, ephemerality, value of non-valuable, elements in flux… my project is about the unexpected beauty that can be found in the rough, the harsh, the things that seem to be ugly or without value at first glimpse. It‘s about colours that tell about the passing of time, recalling stories of […] - [Salzkammergut 2024](https://craftingfutures.net/salzkammergut-2024/): ‘Chunky, Fragile, Sticky, Sweet’ by Monja Hirscher exhibited at Avantgarden, Salzkammergut 2024. Shaping liquids, thinking with weeds, food as a backdrop or backdrops for food, casting tin and pulling sugar. INK AND TREAT AND MOLDS AND HANDS showcases the process-oriented results of initially individual approaches to design questions that gradually evolve together. For a week […] - [Ars Electronica Festival 2024](https://craftingfutures.net/ars-electronica-festival-2024/): 4. - 8. September 2024 - [Physical Toolkit Archive](https://craftingfutures.net/toolkit-open-source-archiv/): Monja Hirscher, Irene Posch, Julia Moser, Valerie Moschner, Michael Kramer, 2024 - [Chunky, Fragile, Sticky, Sweet](https://craftingfutures.net/chunky-fragile-sticky-sweet/): Monja Hirscher, 2024 - [This is… An Introduction to Many Introductions to Crystals of Power](https://craftingfutures.net/this-is-an-introduction-to-many-introductions-tocrystals-of-power/): Lilo Viehweg, 2024 - [rust + dust](https://craftingfutures.net/rust-dust/): Julia Moser, 2024 - [Design Research Society Conference](https://craftingfutures.net/drs-2024/): 28. June 2024 - [Design Bookkeeping: Making Practice Intelligible through a Managerial Lense](https://craftingfutures.net/design-bookkeeping/): Elizabeth Meiklejohn, Laura Devendorf, Irene Posch, 2024 - [Human-Material Interactions as Practice for Care](https://craftingfutures.net/human-material-interactions-as-practice-for-care/): Monja Hirscher, Irene Posch, 2024 - [EDEL](https://craftingfutures.net/edel/): CC BY-NC - [natürlich gefärbt](https://craftingfutures.net/naturlich-gefarbt/): CC BY-NC-ND - [KlangSchule](https://craftingfutures.net/klangschule/): CC BY-SA - [Top Kleber](https://craftingfutures.net/top-kleber/): CC 0 - [Burning Ashes](https://craftingfutures.net/burning-ashes/): CC BY-NC - [Crafting Futures Toolkits & Nachhaltige Textilproduktion](https://craftingfutures.net/crafting-futures-toolkits-nachhaltige-textilproduktion/): 9. April 2024 - [Shibuya Fashion Week](https://craftingfutures.net/shibuya-fashion-week/): ‘Panta Rhei. Growing colours for flowing waters’ by Julia Moser presented at THE SHOW at Shibuya Fashion Week 2024, Tokyo/JP. THE SHOW to think about the “future” of fashion. In collaboration with the FASHION FRONTIER PROGRAM, which has been providing opportunities for the next generation of creators to learn and evaluate fashion for the future […] - [Designing with the Living](https://craftingfutures.net/designing-with-the-living/): Project Course 2024 - [Making Magnetic Reverberations](https://craftingfutures.net/making-magnetic-reverberations/): Elizabeth Meiklejohn, Laura Devendorf, Irene Posch - [Textile Design Now](https://craftingfutures.net/2850-2/): TEXTILE DESIGN NOW EXHIBITION:‘Growing Patterns. Living Pigments’ by Julia Moser exhibited at the ‘Textile Design Now’ exhibition at the UQAM Design Center Montréal from 30/11/2023 to 11/02/2024. ‘Textile Design Now’ presents the work of 23 women designers and artists from around the world (Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Senegal, Singapore, Sweden, […] - [Panta Rhei. Growing colours for flowing waters](https://craftingfutures.net/panta-rhei-growing-colours-for-flowing-waters/): Julia Moser - [Textile Intersections Conference](https://craftingfutures.net/textile-intersections-conference/): PAPER PRESENTATION: Julia Moser presents the publication “Growing Patterns: Textile Design with Living Pigments” as part of the 2023 Textile Intersections conference taking place in London (GB) from September 20th–23th, 2023, hosted by the Loughborough University London. A turn towards the development of sustainable textile dyes moved new pigments into the centre of attention – […] - [Growing Patterns. Textile Design with Living Pigments](https://craftingfutures.net/growing-patterns-textile-design-with-living-pigments/): Julia Moser, Karin Fleck, Irene Posch - [Electrokit](https://craftingfutures.net/electrokit/): CC 0 - [Magnetic Reverberations](https://craftingfutures.net/magnetic-reverberations/): A collaborative interactive projecte led by Elizabeth Meiklejohn as part of the 2023 Experimental Weaving Residency at the Unstable Design Lab at ATLAS, UC Boulder. By approaching programmable movement as a provocation, this project explored fabric elements capable of oscillating between two states. Collectively, we used our knowledge of weaving, electronics, and programming woven drafts […] - [Ars Electronica Festival 2023](https://craftingfutures.net/ars-electronica-festival-2023/): 5. – 10. September - [The Unstable Weather Collection](https://craftingfutures.net/the-unstable-weather-collection/): Monja Hirscher - [Make visible the invisible](https://craftingfutures.net/make-visible-the-invisible/): Julia Moser - [ArchXperiments](https://craftingfutures.net/archxperiments/): CC BY-NC-SA - [The Archive of Awkward Relations and Partial Connections of Complex Matter](https://craftingfutures.net/the-archive-of-awkward-relations-and-partial-connections-of-complex-matters/): Lilo Viehweg - [RE:CONNECT](https://craftingfutures.net/reconnect/): OS open 1.0 - [Unwinding Textiles](https://craftingfutures.net/unwinding-textiles/): Anna Blumenkranz - [Supporting Mutual Imaginations through Human-Material Interactions: A Toolkit as Form of Access](https://craftingfutures.net/supporting-mutual-imaginations-through-human-material-interactions-a-toolkit-as-form-of-access/): Monja Hirscher, Irene Posch - [SPCS talk vol.2 – Textile Dyeing with Bacteria – Letting Nature Design](https://craftingfutures.net/spcs-talk-vol-2-textile-dyeing-with-bacteria-letting-nature-design/): Bacteria are often feared but what if we worked with bacteria instead of trying to eliminate them? Julia Moser has been researching the use of bacteria to produce pigments for textiles. Join us on 31/03/2023 to find out how she paints and constructs her garments with living pigments – online at Fabcafé Kyoto. SPCS Talk […] - [Lichen and Speculation](https://craftingfutures.net/lichen-and-speculation/): A workshop with Julia Schwarz at the Crafting Futures Lab. Julia shared her practice, and especially her research and developments on lichen as Unseen Edibles. Building on this, the students explored lichen and other materials within the framework of the Material Dialogues project and developed speculative narratives. - [Es lebt. Konstruktionsmaterialien aus Pilzmyzel](https://craftingfutures.net/es-lebt-konstruktionsmaterialien-aus-pilzmyzel-2/): Robert Köppe, 15. March 2023 - [Material Dialogues](https://craftingfutures.net/material-dialogues/): Project Course 2023 - [Conversation with: Anna Blumenkranz](https://craftingfutures.net/anna-blumenkranz/): 12. December 2022 - [Conversation with: Jesse Howard](https://craftingfutures.net/jesse-howard/): 24. November 2022 - [Conversation with: Taylor Levy](https://craftingfutures.net/taylor-levy/): 10. November 2022 - [Conversation with: Precious Plastic](https://craftingfutures.net/precious-plastic/): 7. October 2022 - [Ars Electronica Festival 2022](https://craftingfutures.net/ars-electronica-festival-2022/): 7. - 11. September 2022 - [Klangwelten](https://craftingfutures.net/klangwelten/): CC BY-NC-SA - [Oscillating Bodies](https://craftingfutures.net/oscillating-bodies/): Lilo Viehweg - [Photoelectric Blueberries](https://craftingfutures.net/photoelectric-blueberries/): Monja Hirscher - [BIO_EM](https://craftingfutures.net/bio_em/): CC BY-SA - [Kleider machen Leute](https://craftingfutures.net/kleider-machen-leute/): CC BY-NC-SA - [Pulp It](https://craftingfutures.net/pulp-it/): CC BY-NC-SA - [Visiting Artist: Laura Devendorf](https://craftingfutures.net/visiting-artist-laura-devendorf/): Visiting Artist, 2022 - [Weaving as Material Calculus](https://craftingfutures.net/weaving-as-material-calculus/): Weaving is a process by which yarns are interlaced at right angles, and the notations used to describe woven cloth have frequently been quoted as the origins of digital computation. Weaving as Material Calculus aims to return computation to its material roots through the production of textile logic gates. LINKS:AdaCAD - [Designing not Knowing](https://craftingfutures.net/designing-not-knowing/): Laura Devendorf, 21. Juni 2022 - [WerkPilz](https://craftingfutures.net/werkpilz/): - - [The Mechanic Kit](https://craftingfutures.net/mechanik-kit/): - - [Stories of Material](https://craftingfutures.net/stories-of-material/): Monja Hirscher - [Reading With My Idol](https://craftingfutures.net/reading-with-my-idol/): - - [Look at me, I'm 3D!](https://craftingfutures.net/look-at-me-im-3d/): - - [Tea Time](https://craftingfutures.net/tea-time/): - - [HOLZ(wurm)quartett](https://craftingfutures.net/holzwurmquartett/): - - [kitchen color](https://craftingfutures.net/kitchen-color/): CC BY-NC - [Needlework Probes](https://craftingfutures.net/needlework-probes/): Irene Posch - [Intimate Interactions](https://craftingfutures.net/intimate-interactions/): Teresa Almeida, Giulia Tomasello, Irene Posch - [Ars Electronica Festival 2021](https://craftingfutures.net/crafting-futures-ars/): 08. – 12. September 2021 - [The Matter of Tools: Designing, Using and Reflecting on New Tools for Emerging eTextile Craft Practices](https://craftingfutures.net/the-matter-of-tools-designing-using-and-reflecting-on-new-tools-for-emerging-etextile-craft-practices/): Irene Posch, Geraldine Fitzpatrick - [Growing Patterns. Living Pigments.](https://craftingfutures.net/growing-patterns-living-pigments/): Julia Moser ## Pages - [Crafting Futures Toolkits](https://craftingfutures.net/toolkits/): Crafting Futures Toolkits show and enable new approaches, topics and tools for educational work in the field of technology and design.Developed by Master students in the teacher training program, these are published under an open source licence so that they can be distributed and used as widely and easily as possible. New approaches, topics and […] - [Impressum](https://craftingfutures.net/impressum/): Medieninhaberin, HerausgeberinCrafting Futures LabKunstuniversität LinzHauptplatz 8, H801074020 Linz, Österreichhttps://kunstuni-linz.at Inhaltliche VerantwortungIrene Posch Kontakt dut.craftingfutures@kunstuni-linz.at HaftungSämtliche Texte auf dieser Webseite wurden sorgfältig geprüft. Dessen ungeachtet kann keine Garantie für die Richtigkeit, Vollständigkeit und Aktualität der Angaben übernommen werden. Eine Haftung wird daher ausgeschlossen. DatenschutzDer Schutz Ihrer persönlichen Daten ist uns ein besonderes Anliegen. Wir verarbeiten Ihre […] - [Home](https://craftingfutures.net/): Team Irene PoschHead of Crafting Futures LabProfessor of Design and Technology Monja HirscherResearch AssistantPhD Candidate Julia MoserResearch Assistant Valerie MoschnerStudent Assistant ALUMNI:Michael KramerStudent Assistant Network Lilo Viehwegliloviehweg.cargo.sitePhD Candidate Anna Blumenkranzannablumenkranz.dePhD Candidate Laura Devendorfartfordorks.comArtist in Residence, Fall 2022 Talia Mukmeltaliamukmel.comArtist in Residence, Fall 2021 Giulia Tomasellogitomasello.comGuest Lecturer, Fall 2020 Teresa AlmeidaResearcher in Residence, Fall 2020 Ars […] - [About](https://craftingfutures.net/about/): The Crafting Futures Lab was initiated to provide a platform for research and design practice and education that inquire into the social, technological and aesthetic interactions of crafts and (digital) technologies. It serves as a place for associated teaching, research, and collaborations. As designers, educators, researchers, and technologists in the Crafting Futures Lab we investigate […] - [Publications](https://craftingfutures.net/publications/): Text Moser, J., Fleck, K.,and Posch, I.(2023) Growing Patterns: Textile Design with Living Pigments, in Tincuta Heinzel, Delia Dumitrescu, Oscar Tomico, Sara Robertson (eds.), Proceedings of Textile Intersections Conference 2023, 20 – 23 September, London, United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.21606/TI-2023/109 Landin, H., Townsend, R.,and Petreca, B.(2023) Textile Intersections 2023 – Exhibition catalogue, in Tincuta Heinzel, Delia Dumitrescu, […] - [What is the future of craft? What is the craft of the future? What futures do we want to craft? We open our lab to find out.](https://craftingfutures.net/what-is-the-future-of-craft-what-is-the-craft-of-the-future-waht-futures-do-we-want-to-craft-we-open-our-lab-to-find-out/) [comment]: # (Generated by Hostinger Tools Plugin)