The purpose of using the geometric shape for the Construction Knitting projects have been to investigate how it’s used as a design construct in wider design discourse,in order to reflect it in the process of knitting. This has meant addressing the contextualizing of knitting and the challenges this poses. My research showed that knitting’s material posed a problematic frame of reference in design because it’s seeped in sociocultural meanings, and exists in its own language. My question became “what if knitting can be explained or visualized in design terms?” Can we describe knitting as a constructed object - and physical participation in design process– not just something that is only soft, feminine, cosy and warm. As Roy Behrens on ‘Art, Design and Gestalt Theory’ quote Lupton &Miller; “design is, at bottom, an abstract, formal activity” in which the … subject matter is secondary, added only after the mastery of form”(p.301). The image shows bast and paper fibres knitted in geometric shapes exploring pattern, scale and relations of form. (Bast fibres are plant fibres that are brittle and firm)
