Situated specifically within a suburban space, not usually called upon as a site for critical and creative practice, the walking-stitching interventions explored through a stitchographic practice offer opportunities to explore familiar sites in unfamiliar ways. Adopting Milica Muminovic’s sentiment that ‘people are not simply users of place, but are actively involved in its creation through the act of building and experiencing’ (2015, p.299), the solitary and participatory walking-stitching interventions presented here allow for an engagement with overlooked and unconsidered spaces, enabling the walker-stitcher to become actively involved in the creation of a ‘human-more-than-human assemblage’ of place (Bennett, 2010).

Through a stitchographic practice I propose a methodological framework of entanglement that knots together disparate threads of practice-led inquiry. The notion of entanglement is considered through the intersecting and knotting of multiple threads. Merleau-Ponty’s notion of bodily consciousness and sensory experience (1962); Deleuze and Guattari’s model of the rhizome (2021); Karen Barad’s concepts of intra-activity and agential realism (2007); Jane Bennett’s understanding of vibrant matter (2010); and Donna Haraway’s theory of sympoiesis (2016) form the theoretical framework that connects threads of phenomenological reflection and new materialism, two approaches that tend not to be synthesised. My positionality between embodied phenomenological and new materialist perspectives, has enabled me to identify a new stitchographic space for thinking about experiences in, on and with place that makes it possible for me to move between purposive, discursive and conceptual understandings of place.