“…This situation leads to an exclusion from 'design thinking' fields in their application to design fields without a physically manifested and completed industrial or crafts 'product', as has been identified in the literature (Kane and Philpott, 2016;Igoe 2010, Hemmings, 2010Harper, 2012aHarper, , 2012b. In particular, textile design research is typically characterized as 'underdeveloped' as an academic discipline, due to its focus on manufacturing, technique, and technical innovation, rather than development as an academic discipline (Hemmings, 2010(Hemmings, , 2012a(Hemmings, , 2012b(Hemmings, , 2015Harper, 2012aHarper, , 2012b.…”