Responsiveknit profiles the work of award winning designer and academic Jane Scott whose interdisciplinary practice sits at the intersection of programmable materials, knitted fabric design, architecture and biology.
Jane Scott leads The Living Textiles Research Group in the Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment at Newcastle University. Her research positions textiles as a critical biofabrication strategy in the transition to sustainable and circular construction. Her group enables interdisciplinary research collaborations with experts from design, science and industry, leading to innovation across scales and applications.
Through installations, publications and presentations, her work interrogates the transformational role of textiles as both an active and environmentally responsive material, and a construction process for bespoke knitted architectures.
Before joining Newcastle University, Jane was a Senior Teaching Fellow in The School of Design at The University of Leeds and held a Visiting Research Fellowship in biomimicry at Central Saint Martins. She completed her PhD through the Textiles Futures Research Centre at Central Saint Martins, where she developed the award-winning research Programmable Knitting.
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