Huggable data! Making the ephemeral last with textile dataviz!
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Claims that textile encodings outlast digital bits and that tangible artifacts can preserve readable data for millennia. Shows PhD dress produced by machine knitting that maps three data sources (industries 2010–2020: green‑washing potential, peaks in reported toxic emissions, and inflating ESG scores) and that still reads after wear and shrinkage. Surveys historical tools from khipu knot system to WWII encoded knits, demos weaving, embroidery, sewing and machine knitting, and notes metadata kept online for deciphering.
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