This project was a collaboration with designers Katie Anderson-Kelly and Alisha Garrigues.

Stitch Your Social Network is a project that leverages the personal data that Facebook is now legislatively required to make available to all users. The original purpose and context of this data was the commodification of our digital selves, a data footprint that captures the entirety of our interactions with a platform built to monetize our social relationships. Stitch Your Social Network seeks to reclaim this data, and explore how the relationships constructed in this data compare to our perceptions of these relationships "in real life".

The project uses embroidery as the medium for this exploration because it is a tactile craft that encourages the reflective and contemplative practice of slowing down. It provides the maker the time to consider their data outside of an online space.