Crafting anatomies: archives, dialogues, fabrications
- Submitting institution
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Nottingham Trent University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 14 - 1118980
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Visual Arts
- ISBN
- 9781350075474
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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C - Fashion and Textiles Research Centre
- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This is an anthology developed out of an individual and collective body of practice research spanning 5 years (2014-2019). It investigates advances in the crafting of the materials of and for the body in considerable depth, from the multiple perspectives of archival, participatory and technological enquiry. The work is unique in its visual and textual analysis of craft as a theoretical framework, embodied approach and value system for re-envisioning fashion/ing. The publication is supported by references to key texts, participation in conferences and exhibitions, fieldwork in the UK and US, visits and collaborations with archives, such as The Wellcome Trust.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- The publication is informed by advances in design and scientific research into reimagining the mutable materials of fashion, textiles and the human body. Comprising 14 chapters, the 24 researcher practitioners, from the UK, EU, US and NZ were assembled for their unique methodological approaches to crafting embodied material relationships. The proposal was negotiated by Bloomsbury in 2016, after the Crafting Anatomies exhibition and research symposium (2015) were disseminated in Moments: A Research Laboratory on Fashion Culture (2016) the selected proceedings of Momenting the Memento, IFFTI 2015, Polimoda, Florence, edited and curated by Linda Loppa. The book is endorsed by professors Catherine Harper, Janis Jefferies and Lesley Millar and is currently being reviewed by: Textile, Textile Design Research and Practice and Crafts.
Townsend managed the book’s content, design and production, as lead editor, and wrote three chapters. Ch1: Crafting Anatomies (pp.1-26) contextualises the refocusing of the original exhibition into historical, participatory and im/material contexts, underpinned by ‘craft’ as a conceptual framework. References to advances in hybrid practice were drawn from Townsend’s research and journal editorship of Craft Research (2009 -). Ch5: The Electric Corset and Other Future Histories (pp. 89-110) reports on an ‘archives to wearables’ methodology using historical artefacts from archives (e.g. V & A) in the development of E-textile applications. Outcomes were disseminated at ‘Participating in an Era of Participation’ (2016) Denmark and ‘Research Through Design’ (2017) National Galleries of Scotland and informed two related, NTU funded PhD studentships in 2017 and 2019. Ch14: On Fashioning Anatomy (pp. 289-304) reflects on the contributions and potential impact of the methodologies towards a more pluralistic and sustainable fashion culture. Written with Joanne Entwistle, author of the seminal ‘Fashioned Body’, the dialogue shifts between the social construction of the ‘fashioned body’ towards its material/ cultural manifestation via bioscientific and virtual platforms.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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