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# Project Description What Do We Know About (Un)known? Teodora Bujdei Summary Final work I am a knit textile designer whose research-led practice explores the intersections of sustainability, material innovation, and narrative. Informed by posthumanist perspectives, my work challenges anthropocentric approaches to design by acknowledging the agency of materials and the interconnectedness of human and non-human systems. Growing up in a rural community, where resourcefulness was a necessity, shaped my sensitivity toward waste and the potential of overlooked materials. This mindset continues to inform my creative process, in which everyday elements are reconsidered as active agents in shaping material meaning and textile language . By combining traditional craft techniques with experimental processes through a slow-making methodology, I aim to develop textiles that are both materially responsible and conceptually reflective, positioning textile practice as a critical space for ecological responsibility and material storytelling. I am a knit textile designer whose research-led practice explores the intersections of sustainabi... College Central Saint Martins Course BA (Hons) Textile Design Graduation year 2025 My Final Major Project, "What Do We Know About the (Un)known?", is a conceptual, sustainability-led textile exploration that investigates material agency through a posthumanist lens. Emerging from personal dislocations—solo travel in Korea and the rupture of my bathroom during renovation—the project frames the unknown not as absence, but as a generative condition where matter and meaning co-emerge. Working with fish scales and chitosan-based bioplastic (Korea) and PTFE tape (Bathroom), I transformed each material through casting, spinning, dyeing, pigment activation, and slow textile processes such as archival needlework and Korean knotting. These embodied methods foreground material responsiveness and challenge the subject–object binary. The resulting works position textiles as onto-epistemological sites—spaces where knowing and being arise through making—and invite a multisensory, open-ended encounter with the unknown. Sustainable practice becomes relational and speculative, with materials acting as co-constitutive agents in shaping knowledge and lived experience. Final work View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery Research and process Share this project My Final Major Project, "What Do We Know About the (Un)known?", is a conceptual, sustainability-led textile exploration that investigates material agency through a posthumanist lens. Emerging from personal dislocations—solo travel in Korea and the rupture of my bathroom durin... A link to this page has been added to your clipboard Browse related work Craft & Process Places & Spaces Nature & Environment Materiality Health & Wellbeing Futures Sustainability Biodesign Biomaterial Recycling Repurposing Natural Waste Conceptual Craft Textiles Knitwear Accessories Fabric Headpiece Biodiversity
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