Meet the designer who knits with wind power

news via Fast Company - co-design in Design

Most people knit with needles. Merel Karhof knits with the wind. The Dutch designer, who teaches at the London College of Fashion, has been on a quest to make wind power tangible for more than a decade. In October, she displayed her “Wind Knitting Factory” at Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven, where she transformed the wind sweeping through the city into an engine of creation, and made scarves out of it. “By making these scarves with the wind, people can see that we do not only need to...

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