Professor Jools Gilson's Knitting Map continues to tour US

4 Nov 2024

The Knitting Map, a collaborative textile based project created as part of Cork Capital of Culture 2005 is currently installed in Art Museum of West Virginia University in Morgantown.

Having toured previously to Berman Museum at Ursinus College in Pennsylvania in 2021, and at the Kohler Gallery at Lawrence University in Winconsin in 2023, The Knitting map was created by over 2500 volunteers 'working to a design created by tracking pedestrian activity in the city centre through surveillance cameras and climate data generated by the weather station at Cork Institute of Technology.'

See more details in Irish Examiner Article here - https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsandculture/arid-41508134.html 

Listen to an interview with Jools on Drivetime - https://www.goloudplayer.com/episodes/what-is-the-knitting-map-NGRjNGFjNTNhZmIxMGQ1NGI2YTIzMjcxZDMyZjFiNmQ=

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