Full Description
The human body lies at the centre of our relationship to fashion and textiles. Crafting Anatomies explores how the body has become a catalyst for archival research, creative dialogues and hybrid fabrications in fashion design. Focusing on how our response to the corporeal has shifted over time, the book looks at how it is currently influencing design and socio-material practices.
With contributions from a multidisciplinary range of scholars and researchers, Crafting Anatomies examines how new technologies have become integrated with traditional fashion and textiles techniques, bringing together art, science and biomedical approaches. Traversing the cutting-edge of design research, the chapters take us from the forgotten lives of historical garments to the potential of biofabrication to cross the boundaries between skin and textile.
Illustrated with 120 images visualising original research, the book reveals how the human body continues to inspire future design, from historical wearables to prosthetic limbs and 3D-printed footwear. In doing so, it provides an inspiring account of how fashion and textile culture now impacts socio-creativity and the formation of contemporary identity.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Crafting Anatomies - Katherine Townsend, Rhian Solomon, and Amanda Briggs-Goode
I. The Archived Body edited by Amanda Briggs-Goode
2. The Archived Lace Body: Contemporary artist designer responses - Amanda Briggs-Goode and Gail Baxter
3. Disarmed: Lasting impressions - Jo Cope and Johannes Reponen
4. Dis-Comforting, Pioneering, and Re-Materializing: Crafting understanding of older men's experiences of ageing through their personal archives - Ania Sadkowska
5. The Electric Corset and Other Future Histories - Katherine Townsend, Sarah Kettley, and Sarah Walker
II. The Body in Dialogue edited by Rhian Solomon
6. Fashion and Participation in Hands of X - Andrew Cook and Graham Pullin
7. Tissue Engineered Textiles: Craft's place in the laboratory - Amy Congdon, Lucy Di Silvio, and Carole Collet
8. Mind-Body-Garment-Cloth - Holly McQuillan and Timo Rissanen
9. Empowerment and Self-Care: Designing for the female body - Giulia Tomasello and Teresa Almeida
III. The Fabricated Body edited by Katherine Townsend
10. Our Own Skin: The development of 3D printed footwear inspired by human skin - Manolis Papastavrou, Liz Ciokajlo, and Rhian Solomon
11. Material Robotics: Shaping the sensitive Interface - Amy Winters
12. The Genetics Gym - Adam Peacock
13. The Body as Factory: A post-productivist fashion practice through film - Lara Torres
Discussion
14. On Fashioning Anatomy - Joanne Entwistle and Katherine Townsend
Index
