My research focuses on contemporary knitting culture as a social, embodied, affective, and material practice, with a particular focus on its potential to foster sustainable and political orientations towards everyday life. Through ethnographic fieldwork, creative methods, and theoretical engagement with new materialism and cultural studies, I explore the impact of knitting when being transformed from a domestic craft into collective and public events shaped by the experience economy. My project further examines how practices of material and embodied collaboration evoke forms of care and response-ability, and how knitting as a kind of micropolitics might respond to the challenges of the Anthropocene. I am currently in Australia as a visiting scholar as a part of the SWISP Lab at the Faculty of Education at the University of Melbourne.
