Posted by specialK September 17, 2012

Nike assembled a group of innovative designers from across the globe and gave them each an assignment: to create a sculpture, installation or structure that is influenced by Nike's Flyknit shoe & to highlight the Flyknit's characteristics.The group was dubbed the Flyknit Collective, and members will show their creations at locations in the U.S., China. Italy, The U.K., Japan & Brazil.  

Jenny Sabin is the U.S. representative who used her architectural design background & her interest in science to create the myThread Pavillion installation at Nike's Bowery Stadium.  About the creation of myThread Pavillion, Sabin said she was "excited by the prospect of bridging the complexity of the human body, thinking about how we can mine the body for biodynamic models and data sets that give rise to new ways of thinking about adaptation performance and even sustainability in material structures, with the simplicity of knitting. So I really wanted to kind of open up the hood and understand how to interface those things."

The myThread Pavillion installation will be on display at the NIke's Bowery Stadium through November 4th. 

[VIA] Additional photos courtesy of Nike.

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