Many cultures have distinctive textile crafts, and how textiles are decorated often celebrates the culture of their creator. Participants have the opportunity to create designs through coding, expressing their own cultural heritage, in a medium that can be stitched by a digital embroidery machine, and to exhibit them in a Mozfest gallery. Turtlestitch is freely available software that enables the generation and stitching of patterns using a digital embroidery machine, giving programmatic control of the machine.
The session starts with a brief round robin presentation highlighting projects celebrating coding stitching culture around the world. Participants can then join one of several workshop groups, or explore existing projects and meet their creators. Tutorial groups are led by individuals from home or workshops. Participants are encouraged to create their own design and add them to the Mozfest gallery, a selection of these designs will be stitched live during workshops
The session will start with everyone together and a brief presentation showing the range of projects being done by people around the world. Our plan is to host a number of tutorial groups. These groups are run by individual in the Turtlestitch community from their homes or workshops. They are in different countries around the world, so can host these groups in different languages. Each group will receive an introduction to turtlestitch and have the opportunity (if time and numbers allow) to see their design embroidered. If people don't wish to join a tutorial group, they can then view a range of projects and meet the project creators. Where there are difficulties with internet access - we may pre-record some of these project creators, to ensure their work is included.
For 30 participants - split them across 6 groups, for 3 - individual tuition for participants.
We'd create a gallery to hold the work done during mozfest, and add it to the Exploring Coding Stitching Culture website. (https://sites.google.com/view/exploring-coding-stitching-cul/home) Our hope is that this website provides a focus for the turtlestitch community, showcasing the work done by creators, and inspiring others to get involved. The website played an important part of bringing us together as a community, and through Mozfest participation, we will continue and extend that discussion, reflecting this via the website.
Margaret is Director of Outreach and Widening Participation for WMG, University of Warwick. She works with young people to encourage them to become creators as well as consumers of technology.
Teacher Computer Science at high school in Amsterdam
Evangelist of block based coding
Organized Scratch conferences in Barcelona, Amsterdam and Bordeaux
I focus on computer-based learning environments. With Seymour Papert etc. I created Logo, a programming language for children and a microworld for a digital creature called a turtle.
initiated Turtlestitch.org, a platform to combine computing and embroidery. Currently, Andrea works for the Vienna University Children’s Office where she leads a media education team.
I have a digit lab where I taught children Snap! and Turtlestitch to code and craft.I love multidisciplinary teaching with coded painting,coded animation,coded embroidery and coded origami.
Sunita Vatuk, mathematician and educator, focuses on expanding access to mathematics and researching mathematical thinking among skilled practitioners of traditional arts/craft, the topic of her contribution to Mozfest.