Category: Elsworthy

Component Design Essay

William Elsworthy 2011     The Hylozoic Ground experimental architecture series developed by architect Philip Beesley has been expanded and refined by researchers, engineers and designers from around…

Orpheus Filter

William Elsworthy, Philip Beesley and Alex Josephson 2005   Photo credit: Philip Beesley Architect Inc. Orpheus Filter is a hybrid ‘geotextile’ equipped with layers of minature valves and…

Hylozoic Soil

William Elsworthy with Philip Beesley, Rob Gorbet, Hayley Issacs, Christian Joakim, Jonah Humphrey, Kirsten Robinson, Jon Cummings, Jonathan Tyrrell, Eric Bury, Lawrence Chan, Charisma Panchapakesan 2007   Photo…

Growing Up in Howard Township, Kent County, Ontario

ELSWORTHY WANG, book and cover design 2009     “After my father Ken Elgie died in 1988, my mother, Ruth realized that some of his stories and memories…

Hespeler Public Library Textile Design

ELSWORTHY WANG 2006 The Hespeler Public Library Textile Design competition invited textile artists and craftspeople to propose a large-scale textile drapery for the newly constructed Hespeler Public Library….

Big Knitting: Landscape Section 4

ELSWORTHY WANG 2008     Big Knitting: Landscape Section 4 uses the traditional, practical and applied nature of knitting to create work where process becomes an integral component….

Ithaca

ELSWORTHY WANG 2011   Sample of knitted luminescent wire The knitted lamp we created for the exhibition MADE at Home merges a technique with a desired atmosphere or…

Big Knitting: Landscape Section

ELSWORTHY WANG 2006   Photo of installation at the historic Gladstone Hotel This project was conceived as the epilogue of the unrealized Hespeler Public Library Textile Design. Big…

Implant Matrix

William Elsworthy with Philip Beesley, Steven Wood and Rob Gorbet 2006   Rendered plan view of installation Implant Matrix is an interactive geotextile that could be used for…