Multimorphic Material Thinking for Sustainable HCI

Holly McQuillan, Elvin Karana · interactions · 2025

already encompass ecological time and scale; it is just often easier to pretend that they don't.How can we ensure our work celebrates materiality, innovation, and creativity, while nurturing and respecting wider systems that support us all?In response, we introduce multimorphic material thinking as a strong concept grounded in materiality that frames temporality across design, use, and ecological scales.We discuss the broader implications of this approach in the context of HCI textiles and textile-forms.

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