KNITTING THE AIR
A growing collective of knitters are putting their craft to the test by knitting the air data from two Breathe London nodes in Poplar, East London for a year.
The first node is situated outside a primary school, surrounded by residential housing. The second is nearby, on the A12 as it approaches the Blackwall Tunnel.
There’s a long tradition of knitting data. This knitter created a scarf which tracked train delays on their daily commute and this group has been using knitting to show temperature changes over time. Plus, knitting is essentially coding, before coding existed.
The first node is situated outside a primary school, surrounded by residential housing. The second is nearby, on the A12 as it approaches the Blackwall Tunnel.
There’s a long tradition of knitting data. This knitter created a scarf which tracked train delays on their daily commute and this group has been using knitting to show temperature changes over time. Plus, knitting is essentially coding, before coding existed.
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