Kolam is a South Indian heritage folk art, a line drawing that creates winding, interwoven geometric patterns over a two-dimensional dot-grid structure. During a 10-day research residency (with Anu Reddy visiting Alex McLean in the Then Try This studio in Sheffield, UK), we collaborated on a series of kolam experiments building on the Algorithmic Pattern theme. We approached kolam from multiple perspectives: material, embodied, computational, structural, and rhythmic. In the following, we outlin...