Hand knitting in a Digital Era.
- Submitting institution
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Robert Gordon University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- Steed_1
- Type
- C - Chapter in book
- DOI
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- Book title
- Crafting textiles in the digital age
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- ISBN
- 9781472532046
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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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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- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This chapter within a book of 12 edited papers by UK and European textile academic researchers describes how textile practitioners have adapted to and ultimately can thrive in response to the adaptation of new technologies. The chapter was reviewed and edited by internationally eminent researchers within the field of textiles. The chapter forms the third and final section of the book entitled : Craft Thinking in a Digital Age comprising of 4 papers by leading UK textile academics that explores the human knowledge embodied within traditional textile craft practices that can generate new thinking to better inform our understanding of the relationship between digital media and tacit human knowledge. The paper argues that the knitted textile designer can make a more
expansive contribution to design thinking and interdisciplinary methodologies than previously considered. The paper explores critically how the tacit knowledge embedded within the craftmaker through hand-skill, material knowledge and cultural perspectives (social, economic and political) can bring new understanding to digital contexts. Through discussing historic and contemporary craft practice, the chapter explores how knowledge from one discipline can bring new meaning to another. For instance the chapter presents examples of how knitting has already been used within science to visually demonstrate complex issues such as climate change and mathematical equations. Within this new context a re-evaluation of the role of knitting is argued where Steed challenges by revaluing the craft of knitting and discusses how it can contribute to 4.0 industry priorities such as the internet of things (IOT) and artificial intelligence
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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