Category: Events

  • Little Free Button Library

    Little Free Button Library

    Button Making is Political! by Fiona Haborak In Spring 2022 at the AIGA Gala within ATEC, Fashioning Circuits hosted a button-making activity. Weaving together the connective threads of buttons as protest memorabilia, Fashioning Circuits chose to honor Earth Day. Aligned with the AIGA Gala’s celestial theme, the Free Button Library resembles a rocket taking flight and the…

  • Encoding Steps: Decoding Stories Workshop Reflection

    Encoding Steps: Decoding Stories Workshop Reflection

    Throughout this year, Dr. Knight, Dr. Llamas-Rodriguez, and the Fashioning Circuits team were working on the Migrant Steps Project, a Digital Humanities project that seeks to intervene in popular narratives about migration and mobilize walking a tool for embodied reflection through repurposing Fitbit technology. My name is Luke Hernandez, and I was a Master’s Student…

  • Encoding Steps, Decoding Stories: A Migrant Steps Workshop

    Encoding Steps, Decoding Stories: A Migrant Steps Workshop

    April 22, 2022 8:30am – 5:00pm We are inviting members of the UTD and DFW community to think with us about the politics of migration narratives and how we connect to those narratives. In this one-day workshop, we will introduce The Migrant Steps Project and work collaboratively through a series of activities designed to address…

  • Happy 10th Birthday, Fashioning Circuits

    Happy 10th Birthday, Fashioning Circuits

    In Fall 2011, Kim Knight and a group of graduate students began meeting to explore the connections between fashion, media, and technology. Through the combination of rigorous intellectual inquiry, commitment to making practices, and investment in community education, Fashioning Circuits was born. Much has changed over the years, but these principles remain. We wanted to…

  • Community Workshop: Make Your Future

    Community Workshop: Make Your Future

    On March 7, 2020, five days before the University announced a move to online instruction due to the COVID-19 public health emergency, we hosted a group of middle school students as part of a workshop in collaboration with UTD’s Science and Engineering Education Center (SEEC) and Girl Scouting in the School Day. We had been…

  • HASTAC Words Matter 2019 Installation

    Words Matter 2019 is a collaborative installation comprised of several component projects that each foregrounds a specific word or set of words in order to explore the many ways that words themselves matter in our social worlds. Words Matter 2019 was exhibited at the HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory) conference hosted…

  • Words Matter @ HASTAC 2019

    We’ve just returned from Vancouver, BC with a lovely visit to HASTAC 2019 where we were honored to have our project “Words Matter” featured among the other amazing works in the Media Arts show.

  • HASTAC Wearable and Tangible Possible Worlds of DH Workshop

    HASTAC Wearable and Tangible Possible Worlds of DH Workshop

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  • Wearable and Tangible Possible Worlds of DH at HASTAC 2017 – Call for Submissions

  • Event Recap: Fashioning Circuits Meets the Brownies