Beyond the fold: Rutuja Pawase

Rutuja Pawase makes the computer wait its turn. Her algorithms begin with a fold, not a file. Guided by the Sri Yantra, fiddlehead ferns, and materials that sometimes push back, she folds cultural memory into digital precision. Her award-winning practice moves beyond the hand-versus-machine debate to ask a sharper question, Can technology carry craft forward without ironing the culture out of it?

Read the full story, published on the Savannah College of Art & Design's blog post and see how geometry, heritage, and code can share a language, and maybe even rewrite one → https://www.scad.edu/blog/beyond-fold-rutuja-pawase