I conducted a WORKSHOP with RMIT textile students in 2020, on the prototyping of knitted material. Handmaking is used in the mock-up process in fashion design as a regular practice, but the use of the word craft, or artisanal skill is still ambiguous in the context of an industrial landscape;particularly in the field of knitting. Often as a designer I will test out a design by hand to consider its potential production. In other design disciplines this is called the prototype, or prototyping processes. As the knitted sneaker is positioned in the cross-over of apparel and industrial design; for this workshop I used it as a conduit to experiment with the relationship territory between craft and design. Th3 workshop set about to seek new ways to explain design processes, which can lead to generating a conversation about future ways to practice design.
