Càudia Coll Pla

Exploring Soft Kinetic Textiles Using Air for their Movement Knitting the Air explores the intersection of textile design and movement, using air as a motion force. This project investigates how knitted materials—chosen for their inherent elasticity and stretchability—can interact with internal pneumatic actuators, dictating dynamic shape-shifting forms.

Inspired by biomimicry, the kinetic textiles evoke natural motions and organic growth, expanding in lifelike rhythms. The final series presents a dialogue between craft and motion: hand-made ceramic vases host textiles that breathe, swell, and evolve within them.

Through a careful balance of movement, material, color, and graphic detail, Knitting the Air redefines our expectations of both textiles and ceramics, inviting viewers to experience softness in motion and form shaped by air.