The Textile Museum of Canada’s online Social Fabric platform works ingeniously well

Posted on 25 May 2010 | Comments Off

Social Fabric works, and works well, because it acknowledges that no online presence can replace the visceral experience of visiting the Toronto museum, and instead opts to recreate the conversations one has with fellow visitors. I guarantee that even if you’ve only ever been to one Textile Museum show, at that show someone asked, “Would you wear that?” Now you can tell the whole world.

The Textile Museum’s executive director John Dalrymple describes Social Fabric as “a platform, more than a website. Like Facebook, it is designed to generate responses and input from a larger community of people. We sort of set the table by providing the context and the selected objects, and then that’s where our level of control ends. It’s up to people to respond in whatever way they like.”

Read more: Following the threads of a conversation – The Globe and Mail.

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