Surface Design Journal Spring 2025 issue
In their 2025 felting issue’s Spotlight on Education, Surface Design Journal shared “Felting Futures,” a paper by RAU researchers Jyoti Kalyanji, Dan Collings, and Finn Godbolt: “Against this backdrop, industrial design students at Auckland University of Technology in Aotearoa, New Zealand are introduced to digital felting as part of a suite of technologies in a textiles research facility. The felt loom is presented as an additive fabrication technology, and locally sourced wool fibre as a key ingredient. Responding to the need for increased consideration of the materials we choose to work with and the environmental and social impact of both their production and their life cycle of use, students are encouraged to engage with hands-on material explorations. ”