Spheres of Practice for the Co-design of Wearables

Fairburn, Susan Marie; Steed, Josie; Coulter, J. Eric

doi:10.1080/20511787.2016.1255445

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“…Outcomes were highly conceptual and included garments and products made with thermochromic and conductive textiles, with embedded heart, respiratory and temperature sensors. The outcomes from the prototyping workshop were at an early stage of market readiness and their precision and quality of execution were less important than their commercial potential, as the key purpose was to forecast future use, inform ideas for follow-on research and initiate new conversations with industry (Fairburn et. al 2016).…”

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The Designers Leap: Boundary Jumping to Foster Interdisciplinarity between Textile Design and Science

Coulter¹

2018

Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice

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Creative thinking is an instinctive problem-solving process for designers however, designers alone cannot solve real-world problems. Collaboration between higher education and industry, and across design and science disciplines can create new paradigms of research to address societal and economic challenges. This paper argues from the perspective of fashion and textile designers, for design to be at the heart of the collaborative research process and advocates for co-design, speculative-design and scenario design to be considered as valid methodologies to foster interdisciplinarity. Perspectives on interdisciplinary partnerships across academic disciplines and with industry are typified by two very different reflections of collaborative projects between fashion designers, textile designers, scientists and industrial partners. The paper identifies commonalities and differences between scientists and designers, with particular relevance to textiles, in a bid to understand how they may collaborate more effectively in the context of interdisciplinary work, and the paper further identifies factors needed for establishing common enablers for engaging in co-design. This is an under-explored field and highlights the changing role of the designer, and as such is of value to researchers in textiles, fashion and product design.

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The Designers Leap: Boundary Jumping to Foster Interdisciplinarity between Textile Design and Science

Coulter¹

2018

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“…Tamminen & Holmgren therefore offer [43] three cultural design spaces for future design: wearables "as technologies of discipline and control", for "mediating love, imagination and belonging" and "as autobiographical objects" [43]. From their ethnographic research on how wearables matter in people's everyday life they conclude that "designers of wearable technology need [to] take the symbolic world they want to be a part of as a starting point, rather than taking inspiration from the functional (or technological) cues" [43] Fashion and clothing studies have used the perspective of dress as situated bodily practice [13] and, based on anthropology and ethnography, have investigated the practice of dress as a subjective being in the world [14,33,41]. Similarly, HCI and Interaction Design formulated practice-oriented design approaches [24,25,53].…”

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“…Research has started investigating digital expression in wearables in the context of co-design of live-action role-playing [8,9,30] and an auto-ethnographic study [29], which showed design can be informed by investigating the social factors of dress. Fashion and design studies [13,14,29] and HCI and CSCW scholars [24,25,53] alike argue for a perspective into socio-cultural practices. In fashion studies, a focus on practices of dress helps to gain a deeper understanding of how people build identity through clothing [13].…”

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Identity through Social Wearables: Designing with Finnish University Students

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Hirskyj-Douglas

Lucero

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Proceedings of the 11th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Shaping Experiences, Shaping Society

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“…As such, a platform for cocreation may be initiated -the production of something such as an idea, process or object, for example, involving two or more bodies such as people or organisations. Regarding textile design and textile design research, this may involve co-designing or co-working leading to particular outcomes, as explored by Valentine et al (2017); Malins et al (2012); and Fairburn et al (2016) as well as product design and development consultancy, Thread (est. 2016), for example.…”

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The Living Archive: Facilitating Textile Design Research at Undergraduate Level Through Collaboration, Co-Creation and Student Engagement

Akiwowo¹,

Dennis

Weaver

et al. 2019

Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice

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With an emphasis on reinventing dress histories through a CAD approach, fashion and textiles archive, The Collections Resource Centre in Leicestershire, United Kingdom, was utilised as the springboard for a visually rich and materially vibrant exploratory investigation. The project married historical artefacts with creative digital technologies in order to redefine fashion/textile objects from the past through practitioner-research. The study focused on textile design research from an Integrated Digital Practice perspective within Higher Education, in relation to learning and teaching at undergraduate level. The archive was employed as a fundamental pedagogical basis to aid research-visual, historical and contextual; observational; hands on experimentation; and design demonstration by investigating archives as pedagogy. The overarching aim was to tease out novel findings by exploring a palette of digital tools, methods, techniques, processes and parameters that may lead to the acquisition of new knowledge, skills and design innovation relevant to academia and industry. This was achieved through a 10-week student bursary scheme at Loughborough University that enabled: institutional and external collaboration between the student-and-staff and the studentand-archive; student-staff co-creation; and by the student engaging with outside organisations, institutions, places, people, events and media relevant to the project. Employing a collaborative and interdisciplinary methodological framework supported the concept of the archive as 'having life', based on the initial study, exploration and digital interpretation of selected archival items which resulted in a comprehensive portfolio of artistic ideas, CAD developments, technical enquiry and scientific experimentation. As such, an environment which enabled a dynamic design-research study within a scholarly context was established. The research process was substantiated by the involvement, experience and expertise of academic and technical staff whilst encouraging autonomy from a student perspective. This steered the research and helped to identify potential areas for further work beyond the scope of this project.

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Spheres of Practice for the Co-design of Wearables

Cited by 6 publications

References 12 publications

The Designers Leap: Boundary Jumping to Foster Interdisciplinarity between Textile Design and Science

The Designers Leap: Boundary Jumping to Foster Interdisciplinarity between Textile Design and Science

Identity through Social Wearables: Designing with Finnish University Students

The Living Archive: Facilitating Textile Design Research at Undergraduate Level Through Collaboration, Co-Creation and Student Engagement

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