This practice-led research project investigates new generative ways of designing with interactive \ntextiles, embracing their inherent active and temporal properties to develop alternative methods \nand open up new aesthetic possibilities. In this project interactive textiles are recognised as \nconstructed material artefacts and their expressive, performative behaviours are used to inform \nnew ways of making. The investigation opens up a new design space for textiles through a \ndeeper understanding and utilisation of interactive textiles and their behaviours through new \nforms of digital making with materials. \nDue to their temporality, these materials are regarded as collaborating agents. This allows for \na design process of interaction and collaboration with active materials and self-assembling \nmatter. By refracting and disrupting conventional linear textile and knit design processes new \nmethods for transforming interactive knit structures emerge. Interactive textiles are explored \nthrough an evolving, generative textile design practice. In the context of matter and technology \nas materials for design, a generative process that allows for a decoding of digital information \nto generate new forms is adopted. Through this process textiles simultaneously become both \ntools and materials to design with; the function of the textile - in its digital or physical state - is \nto inform the making of new interactive textiles. \nThe significance of this research lies in its methodological contribution to contemporary textile \ndesign practice through the formulation of new generative textile design methods. The research \nand practice embrace digital and physical materials; recognising the particular procedural and \naesthetic qualities of these new media.