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Report and thoughts on our recent workshop with The Poly in Falmouth on khipu making and woven robots.

Introducing the three selected Cocoon residents and their projects.

We acquired an eight-shaft table loom for the algorithmic pattern project, and have been exploring 'crackle weave' patterns, where a threading pattern is created by repeating a small motif is repeated along a path, with intermediate steps added according to rules. During this activity Alex also visiting our friends in the Wearable Senses Lab in Eindhoven, working with the researchers there to explore shaft weaving patterns on the TC/2 prototyping …

Last winter we ran a winter school as part of the Algorithmic Pattern project, in collaboration with Ray Morrison and Lucy Cheesman. With participants with diverse practices brought together via an open call, we explored patterns in origami, dance, music and video animation, taking an embodied approach to code.

In January Alex, Paola Torres Núñez del Prado and Dave were invited by our long term collaborator and friend Julian Rohrhuber to visit the Institute for Music and Media (IMM) in Düsseldorf to expand on our previous work together with Andean Khipu.

From graphs to graphic novels, how the different ways we illustrate complexity do or don't work.

We are running a workshop alongside Paola Torres Núñez del Prado and Julian Rohrhuber on the 31st January at the Epistemic Media Research Group (Institute for Music and Media) in Düsseldorf.

In 2025 we re-designed our air pollution sensor system SmogOff, and sent it out for testing with three community groups. These are our notes from the process.

I've been playing with a weaving pattern over the last few months, it's based on one of the oldest pieces of fabric found, in Hallstatt in Austria.

Final write up on this years organised atoms activities, and hints at new things to come.

Testing a version of the tablet weave demonstrator, as described by Peter Collingwood in The Techniques of Tablet Weaving.

A report on our public installation as part of Alpaca Festival 2025.

A report on our two day long "Fun Palace" at United Downs Raceway, historic site of the amazingly named "Ale and Cakes" Mine.

A quick write up of the first Organised Atoms workshop of 2025. We have another two (open for participants!) in October, all funded by the Royal Society of Chemistry.

We're happy to announce dates for Organised Atoms 2025 - workshops for kids and their families and friends where we search for crystals, examine them under a microscope and make electronic noises with them!

On-line conference with watch parties in Sheffield, Berlin and Barcelona

We'll be opening our studio to welcome you to our new location, and also to launch Drawings About Things - all invited!

We are very happy to report that we have been funded by the Royal Society of Chemistry for a third year of Organised Atoms workshops!

All about our recent updates to the project after over ten years use in Uganda, where it's been used for recording mongoose mating, fights, births, deaths and details like mongooses defecting from one pack to another.

Our freshly spruced up SmogOff air pollution sensors have been shipped out to community groups around the UK for gathering data for environmental advocacy projects.