Unsworn Web designed and produced www.mobilsyjunta.se - a crafty website for a series of ambulating SMS-embroidery sewing circles.

Slow embroidery and fast tech

Digital communication meets traditional craftmanship in Threads - a mobile sewing circle, a workshop that tours Swedish rural community centres throughout 2010-2012.

www.mobilsyjunta.se is the online extension of the sewing circles. It documents what is produced in the workshops, offers new trajectories through the material, and invite others to share their SMS-embroideries.

Collaborative development

The site was developed in close collaboration with initiators Åsa Ståhl and Kristina Lindström and producers Swedish Travelling Exhibitions. This allowed us to design a site that tightly integrates with the pyshical exhibition series.

Behind the eternal clotheslines a heavily customised WordPress installation powers the site. We created fresh plugins to allow a new type of “thread-based” navigation as well as custom uploads of SMS-embroideries from the web and mobile phones.

Fowl-curious people gathered at the hugely popular Unsworn Visuals-designed Social Birding tent at Falsterbo Bird Show this weekend.

Perhaps you’re curious about birds (with wings) and bird-watching, but you don’t own a pair of tube binoculars and you’re unsure of how and where to direct your gaze? At Falsterbo Bird Show this weekend you could converse with bird experts while observing live video footage of circling sparrowhawks, honey buzzards, and hobbies on a large screen in a custom designed tent.

Other screens displayed Flickr photos and Twitter messages contributed by fellow festival participants.

Vital components of this Unsworn Social Birding setup are:

• a steady-handed, bearded cameraman with awesome optics
• an exhaustive bird image database ready-at-hand to pedagogically assist the conversation
• nimble google-fingers to conjure up images when the discussion meanders beyond the image database and turns to Chinese cormorant fishing or guano production
• daily film reports from the local bird ringing station
• 200 inches of plasma to fight of the bright sun outside

Stay tuned for more unsworn ornithological experiments!

When in Shanghai, don’t forget to drop by Malmö’s exhibition at the World Expo. Peek into a Parascope to check out how Malmö’s Western Harbour area was radically transformed from an industrial site with its heydays long over into a fancy-yet-sustainable-and-accessible residential neighbourhood (with plenty of great ice-cream spots).

Unsworn Visuals also helped the City of Malmö with a flexible exhibition design for their huge-wall-of-monthly-changing-exhibitions.

If you can’t go there in person, Magnus went to great heights to bring you these snapshots. Wo hun hao!