Katie-May Arndt is an interdisciplinary design-researcher and textile practitioner working with embodied research methodologies at the intersections of sensory and media studies. Katie studied Industrial Design at OCAD University in Toronto, and received her MDes from Concordia University with the SSHRC-funded thesis Textile as Image: Mediation, Materiality, and the Senses in Textile Design and Research, where she continues her Ph.D. work in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture.

Informed by her professional background as a production sewist, handweaver, and clothing designer, Katie works through processes of research-creation to raise critical sensory considerations for contemporary textile work, centring the inherent yet often overlooked powers of hapticity, tactility, and feeling within visually-oriented expanding digital networks and cultures. She was the 2024 recipient of the William Blair Bruce European Fine Art Travel Scholarship, and is a member of Milieux Research Institute’s Textiles and Materiality Research Cluster in Montréal.