====== TEXTILES AND MATERIALITY AGM ======


4TH NOV 2022
1:30pm
Mileux resources room 11.07

https://textilesandmateriality.com/

===== New Co-ordinator =====

welcomes Morris Fox - co-ordinator (Fridays & Wed - 11:30 - 2:30)
https://www.morrisfox.net/


===== intros =====

people introduce themslves

  * Morris
  * Jessie (communications) - research and disablity
  * Kathleen - co-director - sustainable
  * Kelly - former co-director
  * Miranda - co-director - mash lab
  * Don - amdes - socialbilyy maker spaces
  * ? - map space through sensory material engagemnet - "ineffeicent maps"
  * Sarah - paper making -
  * Hei Lam - text objects
  * Alex - tech of spec life bio lab - elec textiles, bio dyes
  * ?
  * Van(essa) - indi - wool history, spinning, carding mapping, 
  * Amanda - art ed - felted needle quilting, motherhood
  * Donna - cellular bio - organisms - cotton fibres for preservation of algae
  * Genvieve - technician for T&M - thurs and fridays



===== Facilities =====

https://textilesandmateriality.com/resources/

==== TAJIMA MACHINE - embroidery and laying ====

big machine!

==== Brother machine ====

same software

==== jacquard loom ====

weaving - "a beast of a loom"

====large bed scanner ====

18" x 24"

==== also ====

another software - "MBird"

loads of colours - inc - glow in the dark!



===== workshops =====

T&M Gen offers a series of workshops

  * "merit of Making" - make a patch / badge
    * upcoming
    * learn about software
    * also learn about 'fills'
  * drawing with thread
  * in the loop
    * analogue circuit w/ conductive thread
  * "text"
  * "pressure sensor workshop"
  * "haptic"
    * image to textile weaving


If you want to offer a workshop, (cards? machine knitting? paper making?) - email Morris!


===== MASH LAB (material and sustainable hybridity =====

Wet lab - between research clusters

"remidiating matter in sustainable hyrbd forms"

dry x wet matter - bio lab + t&m

processes:

paper
plant processing (ink and dye)
sustain lab
glass cutting

  * grant - facilities optimisation - workshop equipment:
    * shredding
    * laser cutting
    * plant pulversation
    * crushing
    * pigment extraction
    * tufting gun (rug thing)
    * ceramic 3D printer

  * workshops
    * seasalt crystal sculpture
    * rust dying


=====  THE FUTURE IS WOOL =====

Sustainability Teams Transition Initiative

wool culture, wool making, quebec

  * PART ONE: SURVEY
    * went to TWIST fibre festival to promote
    * 130 responsonses
    * eg - wellbeing making things by hand
  * PART TWO: ACTIVITY IN PERSON
    * sheep to shawl event?
    * valorize quebec wool


=====  ICELAND FIELD SCHOOL =====

  * http://icelandfieldschool.ca/
  * June - led by Kathleen Vaughan
  * 3 credit course at Icelandic Textile Centre
  * exhibition- 2nd floor vitrine by Dean's office - up till 14th Nov
  * produced a catalogue
  * next field school 2024

===== Milieux Undergrad Research Fellows =====

  * program of research fellows for undergrads to Arts Culture and Technology
  * for a calendar year
  * $500 stipend
  * access to facilities
  * T&M fellows:
    * Amanda
    * Biodesign research Collective - 3 undergrads from DCArt
    * Emily Blair - extended

===== knot making =====

1720 knots to be made on the loom.
Believe it or knot.

===== 10 new members =====

  * invited to do a presentation of their research
  * date TBC probably in Jan
  * MASH bash? party also?


===== AOB =====

  * SM shared quick intro to FABRICATIONS - https://tinyurl.com/fabricationsMCR