Artist-led Workshop: Weaving Identity and Resistance 

This workshop invites participants to explore how personal and collective identities shape healthy democracies and how traditional crafts, like knitting, function as tools of resistance, adaptation, and storytelling. Rather than knitting from scratch, participants will receive pre-knitted fabric pieces that they can alter, modify, and transform to reflect their own cultural experiences and perspectives. 

By engaging in physical alterations—cutting, stitching, painting, embroidering, and layering—the workshop mirrors the ways in which identities are shaped, threatened, suppressed, and reclaimed in the socio-political landscape. Participants will be invited to consider how cultural identities are being shaped by political and technological forces and its implications for democratic cultures.  

Learn more about Ailin's DXC25 artwork: Knitting Echoes