Textiles Made to Defy the Ordinary.
Our mobile Behavioral, Sensory & Environmental (BSE) Wellness & Design Studio develops adaptive tools, tactile learning experiences,
and eco-art retreats respectfully informed by early place-based handweaving traditions, relational knowledge, and ecological relationships across the
Eastern Woodlands and Wabanaki homelands. Our work is also informed by broader Northeastern American ethnography, and relational practices,
spanning the Atlantic-and-Mid-Atlantic Coastal and surrounding regions.
Current Research Projects
Our list of current and future research projects for the 2025/2026 calendar year can be found below.
Updates will be added as we get closer to the new year to include additional details about posted projects including. Visit our blog section (linked below) for more.
Related information will cover:
1. How community, collaborators, and sponsors can get involved at different phases of the projects
2. How we will be conducting interviews, focus groups, community engagement sessions
3. The different phases of projects along
with estimated durations and related
follow up as it applies
4. Ways community members can participate
in the way that resonates
5. The names of organizations who have made contributions and wish to be shown on our site
as partners, collaborators, sponsors, etc.
6. Types of hard or electronic copies of supporting materials we may use and/or need related to a posted
project (ie: photos, videos, etc.).
7. Our research projects include elements of our frameworks and methodologies such as: NCTA, Sensory Genealogy, Material Remembrance, and BSE Wellness.
We our research helps inform our Hands Before Looms
educational series and neuro-ergonomic adaptive tools.
8. An option to download a PDF copy of the research outline information follows is provided below.
We welcome intentionally aligned community members, artists, and organizations to reach out
to us for more information.
If you have any questions or wish to collaborate, please email info [@] bohoandknots.com or call us at
647.594.0220 to share your expressed interest.
Active Project(s) Below
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If you are interested in connecting or collaborating regarding posted projects or have a project idea, you'd
like us to collaborate with, please contact Shā’-nay Paris, the Lead Director, Researcher, and
North American Textile Artist of The Ancestral Waves Project by clicking below.
Open calls for collaboration for related local, domestic, and international projects,
events, and retreats are listed below.
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