Featured on the UW DX Arts SoftLab Blog:

The Stretch Synth is a scarf-sized fabric tube knit on a knitting machine. Stretch Synth is a synthesizer that plays music as you stretch, bend and scrunch a woven tube of fabric. Stretch Synth is both a synthesis of my newly acquired e-textile and physical computing skill sets as well as a preliminary foray into interfaces that ask what meaning can be made in the intersection of technology, form and movement.

Published on Medium.com:

Climate change presents a paradox: while it has transpired, is transpiring and is yet to transpire it often seems intangibly distant. The impacts of climate change are obscured by the natural variability of weather and generational time-scales, however, traces are becoming apparent — the most recent 2018 National Climate Assessment found that predictions made by the 2014 assessment, like increased forest fires, ‘nuisance flooding’ and variable weather, are becoming more frequent realities.

Using cyclists as a case study due to their latent knowledge of the weather and seasons, I wanted to create speculative tools to tangibly understand climate change for everyday cyclists.