Security Blanket is a participatory zero-waste quilt made from salvaged domestic textiles that can transform into garments, shelters, and carrying devices. Through collective stitching and folding, the work explores how fragile systems of care, survival, and memory might be held together by a thread. Using zero-waste design principles, where pattern pieces are planned to utilise every inch of fabric, the quilt reimagines discarded textiles as a material for repair and resilience. Fastenings such as drawstrings, ties, pockets, and slits, allow it to function as a garment, shelter, or carrying device. Through this adaptability, the work explores transformation as both a practical and creative tool. Participants were invited to experiment with the blanket by working with small fabric test panels first, then stitching their folding paths onto the larger quilt. Over time, the surface became filled with stitched instructional lines that recorded this collective experimentation . Functioning as a mobile, tactile classroom, the blanket evolves through its use. Each interaction reshapes it, demonstrating how skills, memory, and care can circulate through material practice. By preserving fragments of domestic textiles, Security Blanket becomes a post-collapse archive, carrying traces of past homes while imagining collective, sustainable futures.

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As part of Fluten: After the Flood. Permeable Learnscape at Stockwerk Galerie, Weimar (2025).