For Berlin Design Week, U8 HAUS presents “Dear Anni, I wove with a 3D Printer” by designer and artist Mia Akhavan. The exhibition is framed as a speculative letter to Anni Albers, the Berlin-born textile artist and Bauhaus pioneer, whose work continues to inspire contemporary textile practice. Albers saw weaving not just as craft, but as a system of structure and a way of thinking through material.
Akhavan builds on this idea in a contemporary context: using a 3D printer, she explores textile structures, combining traditional weaving techniques with digital fabrication. Her work investigates how structure, tension, and materiality translate across different tools and media.
Alongside large-scale textile pieces, the exhibition features material studies and experimental iterations that function as an open archive. These works reveal the creative process, showing weaving as an ongoing practice of experimentation, adjustment, and reflection. The archive itself is an integral part of the work’s structure and concept.
By positioning weaving between handcraft, loom, and new technologies, the exhibition offers fresh perspectives on material, structure, and space. It presents weaving as a transhistorical system that builds on tradition while exploring new forms, materials, and spatial possibilities.
