Tissue Engineered Textiles: Craft's place in the laboratory

Abstract

This chapter situates the relevance of textile craft practice to develop new knowledge in a tissue engineering laboratory setting. Written as an interview between design researcher Amy Congdon and scientist Lucy Di Silvio to analyse and reflect on a design-science collaboration established as part of a PhD research project. The chapter highlights the iterative process of bio-informed textile craft practice and the legacy of hybrid research where textile protocols meet tissue engineering tools