Knit + Code is a mixed reality installation blending digital and physical experiences into an immersive spectacle. At its core is a minimal 3D-knit textile dynamically lit with a range of slowly changing lights. This physical form creates a canvas for a digital mixed reality experience: Viewers scan a QR code below the sculpture to launch into the digital space, where a custom algorithm generates multi-colored fibrous models that extend beyond the confines of the physical structure. Knit + Code blurs the boundaries of digital fabrication and spatial design, inviting viewers to explore the space in new ways.
Knit + Code is an interdisciplinary design collaboration made possible by the Pratt Institute School of Design. It was designed and fabricated in Brooklyn, NY for Pratt Shows 2023: Design by a team of Pratt School of Design faculty and students.
Design Team
Hannah Berkin-Harper: Industrial Design
Benjamin Howes: Interior Design
Tracey Weisman: Knit Lab
Fabrication Team
Shayna Block: Fashion Design
Malek Rasmussen: Fashion Design
Daryl Shelton: Industrial Design
Emma Winick: Industrial Design
Joanne Wu: Industrial Design
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Streetlab is a non-profit bringing activities for children to the streets of NYC. I have collaborated with Street Lab since 2019, and since May 2022 I have served as the Design Lead, bringing new designs and programs to public spaces.
OASIS is a pop-up, open-air, cooling station. In high heat, New Yorkers are often forced to retreat to indoor, air-conditioned spaces, which can be isolating as well as energy-intensive. OASIS offers an alternative: a communal, outdoor gathering space that relies on water, plants, and shade to cool people, right in the heart of neighborhoods. The pop-up features a custom-designed misting river and mobile landscape filled with plants native to NYC. The pop-up encourages people of all ages to gather and cool off together, all without power.
In 2024, Street Lab rolled out OASIS in more than 15 locations, focusing on neighborhoods with the highest Heat Vulnerability Index in New York City, with support from Con Edison, AARP, NYC Dept. of Transportation, NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and Street Lab donors.
Our goal is to use pop up to bring New Yorkers together. And we aim to bring these ideas to the street rapidly. To both of these ends, with generous support from NYC Small Business Services, here is One Big Table, which our team has taken from drawing board to prototype on the street in the past six weeks. The table is a modular, scalable solution that allows communities to host all sorts of activities, including street dining, on Open Streets along NYC commercial corridors. After testing the table on four Open Streets during the past two weeks, we’ll return to the shop next week to cut more segments, to see just how big we can go.
One Big Table is used for all kinds of events, including a program in partnership with WNYC recording interviews with NYers called “Our Cities Our Stories”
One Big Table has custom lighting for night time activity, and hold standard umbrellas for hot summer days.
We're creating the world's first connected meditation system that consists of a multi-sensory meditation cushion, integrated content and group-based meditations. Think Peloton meets immersive, personalized meditation. -- combine the great access of meditation apps with the ergonomics and multi-sensory elements of a physical meditation cushion to help deliver the outcomes and benefits associated with a consistent meditation practice.
Cushion in molded recycled foam with upholstery in recycled PET fabrics.
2021 Interior Design Magazine NYCxDesign Awards Honoree
Small pandemic project. As we prepared for remote learning for my 1st grader and set up a dedicated space for her, I made her a desk with a small cubby to keep her school materials in one spot and reachable so everyone could get work done during the day. Made of baltic birch and fabricated at Pratt Institute.
Mobi is a collection of kids tableware products to use on the go. Coming soon!
Hip is a company dedicated to replacing single use plastics. I worked with them for a year creating an entire lunch system. These sandwich and salad sets are the first offerings on the market. The lunch containers are made from bamboo fibers and the utensils are made of rice husk fibers. Both are currently available at Ben Bath & Beyond and through the Hip website.
Selected work from 2007-2016
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A variety of projects I worked on while at West Elm in 2007.
GIR is a leader in beautiful and well designed kitchen tools with a bit of attitude! Spatulas designed in 2016.
Right after graduating from Pratt I designed a line of handbags for an an environmentally responsible startup called Canopy Verde. The bags are bamboo fabric, and vegetable tanned leather, and other than the zippers, have no hardware.
UNDO was a startup company creating new products for meditation. They hired me as they were developing the original cushion (working on refining the upholstery lines) , and then we expanded their product line to include a candle and blanket you can write intentions on, a journal to deepen your meditation practice, and an ankle pad, which launched March 2017.
These tiles were designed with MIO, a sustainable studio in Philadelphia where I interned as a graduate student while at Pratt.
Miscellaneous student work including a rocker I designed and built studying in Copenhagen, and elements from my Master's thesis about children and objects for play.
