Threaded Ecologies presents a woven map translated from a collective mapping study carried out during the “Text+Textile+Technology” workshop 2026. During this week-long workshop, participants from across disciplines traced the ecology of weaving as a form of knowledge practice: embodied knowing, material agency, craft communities, tools and techniques, and the relationship between making and thinking.
The resulting map was dense, relational, and deliberately unresolved. Rather than resolving this complexity, the artwork carries it forward into material form, translated into threads, warped across a frame loom, and held in suspension.
Like the conversations that produced it, Threaded Ecologies holds questions beyond answers, connections beyond conclusions. It invites viewers to encounter craft as an ecology of knowledge, produced through the entanglement of bodies, materials, tools, and environments.
Barrows Rotunda, Hopkins Center. March 27 – April 14.
Hayri Dortdivanlioglu
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Society of Fellows
Department of Studio Art
Dartmouth College
Collaborators: Alexander Cachine, Anne Sullivan, Etta Sandry, Finn Goss, Hayri Dortdivanlioglu, Ishani Saraf, Jacqueline D. Wernimont, Kira Dominguez Hultgren, Michelle Charest, Nathalie Miebach, Pamela Wilson, Rebecca E. Biron, Tricia Treacy, Vernelle A. A. Noel
Cosponsored by the Leslie Center for the Humanities, the Office of the Vice President of Campus Initiatives, Office of the Provost, Office of the Associate Dean, Society of Fellows, Design Initiative at Dartmouth, Digital Humanities and Social Engagement Program, Creative and Critical Data Lab, Department of Art History, Program in Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Department of Geography, and Department of Studio Art.