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COILING TO TOOLING

Semester workshop supervision and design consultation, 2025
Textile and Material Design Dept
Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin

How can craft practices be reinterpreted as digital tools open up new possibilities for processing materials? What methods and material stories and qualities unfold when combining human-handcraft and robotic-based processes?

This semester-long project explores the intersection of craftsmanship, materials, and computational tools through a combination of lectures, excursions, and hands-on experimentation. Students will engage in two complementary workshops: “Coiling to Tooling” by Evey Kwong, which focuses on coiling as a basketry technique and “Robotic Fabrication” by Kim Cordes, which introduces hybrid, machine-driven processes. 

futurprimitiv by Evey Kwong
futurprimitiv by Evey Kwong
futurprimitiv by Evey Kwong

⭡ Samples of analog coiling techniques by Evey Kwong

The resulting experiments will be translated into prototypes that range from small samples to scaled objects and structures. Working with materials like grasses, textiles, wood and clay, students will investigate how analog techniques can be interwoven with digital tools, including algorithmic design and robotic fabrication. By experimenting across scales, materials and methodologies, students will explore knowledge systems, discuss the role of craftsmanship in an increasingly techno-centric future and develop new ways of thinking about materials and spatial construction, while reflecting on how traditional and digital technologies can inform one another.

futurprimitiv by Evey Kwong
futurprimitiv by Evey Kwong
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futurprimitiv by Evey Kwong
futurprimitiv by Evey Kwong
futurprimitiv by Evey Kwong
futurprimitiv by Evey Kwong
futurprimitiv by Evey Kwong

⭡ Results from hybrid craft experiment with robotic stakes building and manual weaving, progressed from “Coiling to Tooling” workshop.

COILING TO TOOLING was led by Evey Kwong, and is part of a semester courses »Hybrid Craft. Basketry between the Analog and the Digital«, supervised by Nayeli Vega Vargas, Maja Avnat and Yolanda Leask.

Participants: Maja Füspök, George Goutrié, Annabel Hett, Dasol Jeong, Hanako Kato, Fritz Rahne, Jacob Salomon, Kilian Schübel, Yupanyui Ramos, Jia Tang, Kenny Garzon Valdes, Xiaoru Xu, Juri Yu, Helena Zouali

Photo credit: Evey Kwong and Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin

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COILING TO TOOLING

Semester workshop supervision and design consultation, 2025
Textile and Material Design Dept
Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin

futurprimitiv by Evey Kwong
futurprimitiv by Evey Kwong
futurprimitiv by Evey Kwong
futurprimitiv by Evey Kwong

⭡ Samples of analog coiling techniques by Evey Kwong

How can craft practices be reinterpreted as digital tools open up new possibilities for processing materials? What methods and material stories and qualities unfold when combining human-handcraft and robotic-based processes?

This semester-long project explores the intersection of craftsmanship, materials, and computational tools through a combination of lectures, excursions, and hands-on experimentation. Students will engage in two complementary workshops: “Coiling to Tooling” by Evey Kwong, which focuses on coiling as a basketry technique and “Robotic Fabrication” by Kim Cordes, which introduces hybrid, machine-driven processes. 

futurprimitiv by Evey Kwong
futurprimitiv by Evey Kwong
futurprimitiv by Evey Kwong
futurprimitiv by Evey Kwong
futurprimitiv by Evey Kwong
futurprimitiv by Evey Kwong
futurprimitiv by Evey Kwong
futurprimitiv by Evey Kwong

⭡ Results from hybrid craft experiment with robotic stakes building and manual weaving, progressed from “Coiling to Tooling” workshop.

The resulting experiments will be translated into prototypes that range from small samples to scaled objects and structures. Working with materials like grasses, textiles, wood and clay, students will investigate how analog techniques can be interwoven with digital tools, including algorithmic design and robotic fabrication. By experimenting across scales, materials and methodologies, students will explore knowledge systems, discuss the role of craftsmanship in an increasingly techno-centric future and develop new ways of thinking about materials and spatial construction, while reflecting on how traditional and digital technologies can inform one another.

COILING TO TOOLING was led by Evey Kwong, and is part of a semester courses »Hybrid Craft. Basketry between the Analog and the Digital«, supervised by Nayeli Vega Vargas, Maja Avnat and Yolanda Leask.

Participants: Maja Füspök, George Goutrié, Annabel Hett, Dasol Jeong, Hanako Kato, Fritz Rahne, Jacob Salomon, Kilian Schübel, Yupanyui Ramos, Jia Tang, Kenny Garzon Valdes, Xiaoru Xu, Juri Yu, Helena Zouali

Photo credit: Evey Kwong and Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin

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