{"id":8222,"date":"2026-01-17T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T10:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.munichfabricstart.com\/threaded-protocols\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T14:57:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T14:57:32","slug":"threaded-protocols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.munichfabricstart.com\/en\/threaded-protocols\/","title":{"rendered":"Threaded Protocols"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div id=\"container-block_9db0aea9bd06845153094e115ee3093e\" class=\"mx-auto w-full max-w-theme px-4 lg:px-10\">\n\n  <div class=\"w-full mr-auto max-w-[911px]\">\n\n    <div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\n<div id=\"richtext-block_6b3bca93994dc73e2cbed8179608a249\" class=\"richtext\">\n  <h3>When Weaving Becomes Computation Again<\/h3>\n<p>Explore these innovative projects at the Sustainable Innovations Forum in the Keyhouse in Hall 2<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<section id=\"spacer-block_e6bae71222fd3137ef7cde66bea94350\" class='h-5 lg:h-10 ' data-block-id='spacer-block_e6bae71222fd3137ef7cde66bea94350'><\/section>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"links-block_b8924656275da7e71aa453641aa8093f\" class=\"links flex flex-col gap-4 sm:flex-row sm:flex-wrap items-center\">\n      <a\n      href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/munichfabricstart\/\"\n      class=\"w-fit text-theme-accent underline underline-offset-2 transition-opacity hover:opacity-70 text-theme-16x24\"\n      >Instagram<\/a>\n      <a\n      href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/munichfabricstart\"\n      class=\"w-fit text-theme-accent underline underline-offset-2 transition-opacity hover:opacity-70 text-theme-16x24\"\n      >Facebook<\/a>\n      <a\n      href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MunichFabric\"\n      class=\"w-fit text-theme-accent underline underline-offset-2 transition-opacity hover:opacity-70 text-theme-16x24\"\n      >Twitter<\/a>\n      <a\n      href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/munich-fabric-start\"\n      class=\"w-fit text-theme-accent underline underline-offset-2 transition-opacity hover:opacity-70 text-theme-16x24\"\n      >LinkedIn<\/a>\n      <a\n      href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/user\/31uhxfyw66syp3cefnwosjkebkxa\"\n      class=\"w-fit text-theme-accent underline underline-offset-2 transition-opacity hover:opacity-70 text-theme-16x24\"\n      >Spotify<\/a>\n      <a\n      href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@MUNICHFABRICSTART\"\n      class=\"w-fit text-theme-accent underline underline-offset-2 transition-opacity hover:opacity-70 text-theme-16x24\"\n      >YouTube<\/a>\n  <\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<section id=\"spacer-block_e6bae71222fd3137ef7cde66bea94350\" class='h-5 lg:h-10 ' data-block-id='spacer-block_e6bae71222fd3137ef7cde66bea94350'><\/section>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"richtext-block_1e7a93ef155f90828d9dc58da8c00dc7\" class=\"richtext\">\n  <p>Threaded Protocols is not a textile innovation in the commercial sense, nor a digital tool disguised as craft. What makes the work distinct is its material investigation into how computational logic originates in textile practice and what is lost when those logics are abstracted into opaque technological systems. <\/p>\n<p>Developed by artist and researcher Floor Berkhout, Threaded Protocols explores the structural relationship between weaving and computing. Both rely on binary decisions, pattern execution, and logical sequencing. Historically, the loom was the first computer. Threaded Protocols returns to this origin, using textile-making to expose the physical, gestural nature of computation that contemporary digital infrastructures have largely hidden.   <\/p>\n<p>Berkhout\u2019s practice operates as a critical technical practice, working through craft methodologies to understand how protocols function materially. In Threaded Protocols, each crossing of threads becomes a binary operation: in front or behind, zero or one. Meaning emerges slowly, through repetition and attention, rather than speed or optimisation. This slowness is deliberate. It draws from perma-computing principles, which question the inevitability of fast, extractive technological progress and its influence on both digital systems and the textile industry.    <\/p>\n<p>The project also foregrounds the gendered history of both textile labour and computation, from 19th-century weaving rooms to the women who worked as \u201ccomputers\u201d in the mid-20th century. By re-embedding computation in the hands, Threaded Protocols seeks to reclaim agency that has been stripped away through industrialisation and black-box technologies.   <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<section id=\"spacer-block_e6bae71222fd3137ef7cde66bea94350\" class='h-5 lg:h-10 ' data-block-id='spacer-block_e6bae71222fd3137ef7cde66bea94350'><\/section>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"links-block_6def54f878d3ad3a3bd774ee1585a77b\" class=\"links flex flex-col gap-4 sm:flex-row sm:flex-wrap items-center\">\n      <a\n      href=\"https:\/\/materialprotocols.site\/\"\n      class=\"btn w-full min-w-[240px] sm:w-fit btn--accent\"\n      >WEBSITE<\/a>\n      <a\n      href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/floor.berkhout\/\"\n      class=\"w-fit text-theme-accent underline underline-offset-2 transition-opacity hover:opacity-70 text-theme-16x24\"\n      >IG: floor.berkhout<\/a>\n  <\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<section id=\"spacer-block_e6bae71222fd3137ef7cde66bea94350\" class='h-5 lg:h-10 ' 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Its relevance lies in how it reframes technology as something made, touched, and shaped by human choice, rather than an abstract, neutral system. <\/p>\n<p>For designers, technologists, and researchers, Threaded Protocols offers a reminder that systems which appear precise and objective are always political, always designed, and always traceable back to material decisions. In a landscape dominated by efficiency, Berkhout\u2019s work insists on another value: the right to build meaning slowly. <\/p>\n<p>The detailed explorer finds a bonus: her work is also touching theme\u2019s of emancipation, gender-equality, historic manipulation\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Any input you think is helpful to create a dedicated article about your project:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<section id=\"spacer-block_e6bae71222fd3137ef7cde66bea94350\" class='h-5 lg:h-10 ' data-block-id='spacer-block_e6bae71222fd3137ef7cde66bea94350'><\/section>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"links-block_7e93afa8a67655d2b6706c692abb82c1\" class=\"links flex flex-col gap-4 sm:flex-row sm:flex-wrap items-center\">\n      <a\n      href=\"https:\/\/materialprotocols.site\/presskit\/\"\n      class=\"btn w-full min-w-[240px] sm:w-fit btn--accent\"\n      >https:\/\/materialprotocols.site\/presskit\/<\/a>\n      <a\n      href=\"https:\/\/materialprotocols.site\/research&#038;&#038;notes\/\"\n      class=\"btn w-full min-w-[240px] sm:w-fit btn--accent\"\n      >https:\/\/materialprotocols.site\/research&amp;&amp;notes\/<\/a>\n  <\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<section id=\"spacer-block_e6bae71222fd3137ef7cde66bea94350\" class='h-5 lg:h-10 ' data-block-id='spacer-block_e6bae71222fd3137ef7cde66bea94350'><\/section>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"links-block_11e5e74bb5b1984e565b16d4bb245833\" class=\"links flex flex-col gap-4 sm:flex-row sm:flex-wrap items-center\">\n      <a\n      href=\"https:\/\/www.munichfabricstart.com\/en\/brand-search\/\"\n      class=\"btn w-full min-w-[240px] sm:w-fit btn--accent\"\n      >ALL EXHIBITORS AT A GLANCE<\/a>\n  <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n  <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Threaded Protocols is not a textile innovation in the commercial sense, nor a digital tool disguised as craft. 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