With this exhibition presentation at the BICCS Conference 2025, we wish to discuss the role of textile crafting in the research project Nordic Network on Smart Light-Conversion Textiles Beyond Electric Circuits, 2021-2025 emphasizing the importance of textile crafting in a cross-disciplinary partner consortium focusing on materials development. We argue that textile crafting may serve as an entrance point to equal dialogue across highly different research fields and thereby pave the way for ethical and sustainable considerations for the benefit of the environment and the way we act as human species in a planetary context. The research addresses the following themes: 1) UV energy as agent for shape change, 2) UV energy as agent for slow colour change, and 3) UV energy as agent for immediate colour change. At the exhibition we display artefacts applying textile craft techniques such as bobbin lace,multi-layered weavings, knitted, printed and dyed textiles.