Fractal Folds: The Posthuman Fashion of Iris van Herpen

Smelik, A.M.

doi:10.1080/1362704x.2020.1850035

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“…While she works closely with technologies, intuitive and artistic hands-on craftsmanship intertwines with technologies to manifest a sense of posthumanism. Material juxtapositions involving solidity and fluidity, as well as materiality and immateriality, add expressiveness to technologies [49]. This study will also discuss how textile crafts and technology influence each other to merge boundaries and bring forth novel aesthetic expression.…”

Section: Design For Aestheticsmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…Iris van Herpen is another typical example who intertwines the dynamic characteristics of human bodies with morphing art and entangles nonhumans (e.g., materials and technologies) to express avant-garde aesthetics. The transforming garment she produced engages the wearer and the viewer in the becoming process by shifting their focus on the material movement [49]. While she works closely with technologies, intuitive and artistic hands-on craftsmanship intertwines with technologies to manifest a sense of posthumanism.…”

Section: Design For Aestheticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Autobiographical Design for Emotional Durability through Digital Transformable Fashion and Textiles

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To promote a resilient user-product relationship for sustainable fashion, design methods for emotional durability are required. Digitally transformable fashion design can be seen as a practical approach that enables dynamic, sensory, experiential, and emotional interaction. Literature shows that features of transformable fashion and textiles, such as versatility, perceived quality, biomorphic forms, and aesthetics, can induce emotional durability in users. However, mainstream works are conducted from function-oriented and technology-led perspectives, neglecting the significance of fashion design as a creative and affective role. To fill the gap, we present exhaustive accounts of two autobiographical design projects as case studies: Pneum-Muscle, a body-worn pneumatic wearable, and E-coral, an artistic interactive textile installation. We utilised the first-person soma design method to facilitate the iterative design and unfold the emotional connection between the user and the materials. We contribute technology-embedded fashion design strategies to inspire novice fashion designers, which involve dynamic draping, ambiguous cutting, and sewing technique-based pneumatic systems. Design guidelines generated can shed new light on the artistic use of technologies, somatic design, and the emotionally durable design approach.

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Section: Design For Aestheticsmentioning

confidence: 96%

Section: Design For Aestheticsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…Iris van Herpen's fractal fold designs also inhabit this relationship between the body and movement. High-tech innovations and 3D printing are used to create her signature curves, bends, and loops, which come alive when the model moves (Hemmings, 2020;Smelik, 2020).…”

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A Kinetic Flat-pattern Method for Childrenswear

Goronga

2024

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This Major Research Paper examines the relationship between the moving body and alternative pattern drafting compared to traditional or conventional methods of creating patterns for childrenswear. Applying Rickard Lindqvist’s kinetic garment construction theory, this practicebased research developed functional kinetic pattern blocks. The aim was to identify differences between the kinetic and traditional pattern blocks and to determine if kinetic pattern blocks provide more room for movement. The research process involved the development of a grading method specifically for kinetic pattern blocks. Analysis of the kinetic and traditional blocks involved three methods: a visual analysis of the patterns, a wear test of muslins, and a fit model survey. Results indicate that the kinetic pattern blocks have more ease at the shoulder and armhole and that kinetic muslins provide a larger range of movement. Important contributions are the kinetic pattern blocks for childrenswear and a method for grading kinetic blocks.

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“…The notion of relationalities perforates and decenters identity/entity and makes it fluid so that it becomes a function of relationship with everything, not just humans. The decentered entity enables this article to talk about the responses to the previous single euro-centric canon of knowledge to be deconstructed as there is a recognition of relationalities of cannons that include the African way of knowing (Smelik, 2022). Decentering identities and entities recognize that everything is linked and entangled to everything else.…”

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Understanding Curriculum Transformations Towards the Creation of Sustainable Learning Environments: A Posthumanist Reflection

Makeresemese,

Mahlomaholo

2023

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This paper uses posthumanism as the theoretical framing to understand the curriculum transformations towards creating sustainable learning environments at some higher education institutions (HEIs) and the early childhood care and education (ECCE) centres in South Africa. The choice of these two bands in education is necessitated by the fact that curriculum singularities and/or insularities have become obsolete in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and its aftermath, the calls for decolonization of the curriculum and the challenges of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). For example, COVID-19 has demonstrated that the curriculum is best delivered when various actors, different modes of interaction and distributed sites are used to ensure no learner is left behind, irrespective of their station in life. Emphasizing the same notions of multi-layered and multi-perspectival approaches, the calls for decolonization affirm the importance of all canons of knowledge, beyond just the euro-centric ones, as the basis for a transformed curriculum. Furthermore, the 4IR privileges the skills of collaboration and compassion for others as critical in this era. What the article brings forth as the central idea is the primacy of relationalities in the construction of curriculum, hence the identities of learners, students, academics, caregivers, institutions of higher learning and care centres. The above are beyond the deleterious influences of anthropocentrism, hence the Anthropocene, and the individuality of humanism and enlightenment. Creating sustainable learning environments is the primary goal of all curricula across the globe. The challenge thus far has been the curriculum approaches that isolate individuals and/or processes from the stakeholders and role players. Curricula emphasized the lone genius’s power and prowess, relying almost solely on their innate abilities as advised by genetic epistemology; this was despite the incessant caution by socio-culturalism and eco-systemic couplings. The latter advocates for the focus on relationalities as a basis for curriculum quality assurance and its transformations. To evidence the above, this article traces how the scholars and practitioners of the curriculum at HEIs and ECCE in South Africa have shifted focus from an emphasis on isolationism to collaboration and the privileging of relationalities. The article highlights the nature and the specificity of those changes and how they relate to new curriculum experiences.

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Fractal Folds: The Posthuman Fashion of Iris van Herpen

Cited by 9 publications

References 19 publications

Autobiographical Design for Emotional Durability through Digital Transformable Fashion and Textiles

Autobiographical Design for Emotional Durability through Digital Transformable Fashion and Textiles

A Kinetic Flat-pattern Method for Childrenswear

Understanding Curriculum Transformations Towards the Creation of Sustainable Learning Environments: A Posthumanist Reflection

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