SOFTLAB @PSU

Material Acts: Experimentation in Architecture and Design

Photographer: Doris Sung

Material Acts: Experimentation in Architecture and Design

Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles, California

September 28, 2024 - January 5, 2025

Textile Designer and Fabricator of the knit structures, including the small knit panel and the large i-cord knit panel displayed for the SOFTLAB@PSU team

“Stitching: an Interview” Material Acts: Experimentation in Architecture and Design, Exhibition Catalogue. Editors and Curators, Jia Gu and Kate Yieh Chiu

Design textile actuel | Textile Design Now

Photographer: Benoit Rousseau

Design Textile Actuel | Textile Design Now

Design Pavilion, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Montréal, Canada

November 30, 2023 - February 11, 2024

Textile Designer and Fabricator of the "PopUp Rose Dome" for the SOFTLAB@PSU team

“Pop Up Rose_African Fractal. Six Rose Pop Up from the Dreadlock Series” in Design Textile Actuel, Editors Louise Pelletier and Patrick Evans, Centre de Design, Universitat de Quebec a Montreal, Canada. IBSN: 978-2-920496-19-4.

Textural Threshold Hair Salon: Dreadlock

La Biennale di Venezia, Architecture (2023), Venice, Italy

May 20, 2023 - November 26, 2023

Textile Designer and Fabricator for the SOFTLAB@PSU team

Textural Threshold: Dreadlock. In Lesley Lokko (Ed.), Laboratory of the Future 18th Architectural Exhibition. (Laboratory of the Future 18th Architectural Exhibition), Venice: La Biennale Venezia. Peer-reviewed/refereed., ISBN/ISSN: 9788898727803

Material Variance Symposium

Photographer: Shannon Werle

Material Variance Symposium at the Columbia University
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP)

New York, New York

September 19, 2023

Textile Designer and Fabricator of all knit structures displayed for the SOFTLAB@PSU team

Hair Salon: Black Hair as Architecture

Photographer: Felecia Davis

Dreadlock Series

Part of the "Hair Salon: Black Hair as Architecture", curated by Sheryl Tucker de Vazquez,

University of Houston, Mashburn Gallery, Houston, Texas

February 2, 2023- February 28, 2023

Textile Designer and Fabricator of all knit structures displayed for the SOFTLAB@PSU team

SOM Foundation Research Prize

Photographer: Felecia Davis

2021 Research Prize
MycoKnit: Cultivating Mycelium-Based Composites on Knitted Textiles for Large-Scale Biodegradable Architectural Structures

""MycoKnit aims to explore the interrelated behavior of mycelium-based composites and knitted textiles, where the knit is used as a growing base for mycelium materials, to offer a sustainable and biodegradable building material and structural system that is strong in both tension and compression."

Textile Designer and Fabricator of knit structure displayed for the SOFTLAB@PSU team

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