Abstract
This paper presents WOLB Wollelab, an interdisciplinary project situated in the Alpine environment of South Tyrol, Italy, that explores alternative approaches to local wool production by bringing together design, collaborative robots (cobots), and traditional craft practices, embracing a more-than-human approach. Local wool, a material of which tones are often wasted each year, along with cobots and humans, is reinterpreted in this project as part of an assemblage of a Thing which has its own agency in the making process. The paper shares the preliminary concept, observations, and reflections that emerged during the early phases of the project, reflecting both on the learnings and unlearnings encountered throughout the design process, opening speculative questions about the entangled agencies of humans, cobots, and materials, and inviting further inquiry into hybrid forms of thinking and making.