Threadquarters is a collaborative project initiated by textile artist and designer Katharina Spitz and the transformation design duo Threads and Tits.

THE INITIATORS

THREADS & TITS

@threadsandtits

Threads & Tits are a Berlin-based artivism and transformation design duo working at the intersection of design research, activism, textile mediation, and education.

Since 2022, they have developed participatory projects, exhibitions, and campaigns exploring social-ecological transformation, democratic engagement, and online culture. Combining hands-on creative work, research-driven methods, and lived activist experience, they empower participants and foster collective reflection.

Threads & Tits have collaborated with artists and institutions such as The Yes Men, Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin, and ACC Weimar, and regularly lead workshops, lectures, and action-oriented formats at universities, conferences, and cultural spaces.

KATHARINA SPITZ

www.katharinaspitz.com
@kathakathak

Katharina Spitz is an Amsterdam-based textile artist and designer with a background in couture tailoring, fashion, and performance. Her work explores inequality, estrangement, and identity through a feminist, material-oriented lens.

Collaborations with poet Manka Menga and musician Marlena Käthe have produced tactile installations engaging with femininity, colonial legacies, and embodied memory.

Her work has been exhibited at among others Textielmuseum, MK&G Hamburg, Fashionclash Festival, Marres, and Bureau Europa.

THE COLLABORATORS

Threadquarters is a project that bundles expertise from different fields of expertise. Our collaborators range from artists, social designers, cultural institutions and researchers. Here you meet the collaborators:

LEONORE SNOEK (NL)

Social Designer, Municipality of Amsterdam

Advisor, Researcher and Expert into safety of young people in digital environments.

LEXI SUN (CHN)

Artist and Photographer

Dramaturgy and visualisation regarding figital dimensons of Threadquarters.

CASPAR WEIMANN (DE)

Initiator of onlinetheater.live

Advisor and Expert on right-wing and anti-feminist online radicalization, radicalization synergies
and critique of masculinity

FUNDED BY

Afgehaakt Nederland Project Grant

Fresh Perspectives Start Grant