Blue plaques of intangible experiences
- Submitting institution
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The University of Huddersfield
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 10
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- T - Other
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- Brief description of type
- Multi-component: Book, Articles and Artefact including Contextual Information
- Open access status
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- Year
- 2014
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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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
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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 body of research coheres around the socially engaged artefact Blue Plaques of Intangible Experiences, 2019, which was co-created at a community Hall and pay-as-you-feel café in Bradford. The artwork addressed individual perceptions of neighbourliness encountered through an inclusive absorption in collective stitch-based practice in different locations in urban Britain with artwork outputs disseminated on the website blueplaquesofintangibleexperiences.com
The artefact was underpinned by research data collected via the following methods: socially engaged creative stich-based practice, qualitative interviews with actors working with charities in Bradford and London, further qualitative research collected with academics, students, practitioners and volunteers at a workshop in Huddersfield, and stitch-based investigations and archival research in museums. The resulting outputs offer a new perspective on socially engaged textile processes in the community.
The main insights from Barber’s research are that craft practice and production can inform historical reconsiderations of handicraft, in no small part due to the endurance of historical processes, collaboration and caring in contemporary socially engaged textiles. The insights were shared via the co-edited book titled Outside: Activating Cloth to Enhance the Way We Live (2014), which presented an argument for using textiles as a catalyst for community cohesion, contributing to a wider debate about making art through ethical engagement, and the co-authored journal articles ‘Crafting the community’ (2016), ‘The Sleeping-bag landscape’ (2015), ‘Craft in unexpected places’ (2015) and ‘Stitch as a compassionate action’ (2020). Blue Plaques of Intangible Experiences as a body of research was presented at the Humanitarian Handicrafts conference, workshop and co-curated exhibition at University of Huddersfield in 2019.
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- Non-English
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