IM Blanky, a blanket composed of soft tilt sensors that are both performative and decorative, has been featured on the website domus.

The blanket was created by the team at Responsive Architecture at Daniels (RAD) — a research unit that provides resources and expertise for project-based research on the spatial ramifications of embedded technology and ubiquitous computing. It has the ability to know and represent its state in time, and position in space, thereby approximating the most primitive and essential form of cognition: the awareness of one's own body. Working together, sensors in the blanket register the orientation or tilt of the material, generating data on the peaks and valleys created when in use. When draped over an object, for example, the blanket can reproduce digitally and in real time the object that it covers.

IM BLANKY was conceived as part of a submission for the exhibition STICHES Suzhou Fast Forward, organized by WORKshop in Toronto, and curated by Larry Richards. The show explores modern digital processes in relation to the traditional craft of Chinese embroidery. 

The RAD team behind IM Blanky includes: Carol Moukheiber, Christos Marcopoulos, Rodolphe el-Khoury, Valentina Mele, Sebastian Savone, Yi Ping See, Samar Sabie, Dina Sabie, and Jonah Ross-Marrs.