This paper is based on a current research project at the University of Huddersfield's In... more This paper is based on a current research project at the University of Huddersfield's Institute for Health Citizenship. The research is exploring the understandings of health, wellbeing and citizenship by analysing the discourse of trainee further education (FE) lecturers. Initially, ...
The paper draws on a small scale case study of English pre-and in-service VET trainee teachers fr... more The paper draws on a small scale case study of English pre-and in-service VET trainee teachers from a northern university. It explores their understanding of wellbeing and health. In particular, it examines trainees' orientation to care as well as their constructions of ...
... Swindells, Steve and McAra, Catriona, eds. (2012) ROTOЯ: Part I Transdiciplinary dialogue and... more ... Swindells, Steve and McAra, Catriona, eds. (2012) ROTOЯ: Part I Transdiciplinary dialogue and debate. ... The programme signals a unique partnership between Huddersfield Art Gallery and the University of Huddersfield to present a broad spectrum of practices and dialogues. ...
This paper is based on a current research project at the University of Huddersfield's In... more This paper is based on a current research project at the University of Huddersfield's Institute for Health Citizenship. The research is exploring the understandings of health, wellbeing and citizenship by analysing the discourse of trainee further education (FE) lecturers. Initially, ...
The paper draws on a small scale case study of English pre-and in-service VET trainee teachers fr... more The paper draws on a small scale case study of English pre-and in-service VET trainee teachers from a northern university. It explores their understanding of wellbeing and health. In particular, it examines trainees' orientation to care as well as their constructions of ...
... Swindells, Steve and McAra, Catriona, eds. (2012) ROTOЯ: Part I Transdiciplinary dialogue and... more ... Swindells, Steve and McAra, Catriona, eds. (2012) ROTOЯ: Part I Transdiciplinary dialogue and debate. ... The programme signals a unique partnership between Huddersfield Art Gallery and the University of Huddersfield to present a broad spectrum of practices and dialogues. ...
“It’s not where you take things from – it’s where you take them to.” Jean-Luc Godard
The propo... more “It’s not where you take things from – it’s where you take them to.” Jean-Luc Godard
The proposed paper presents an ongoing practice-led research project that resulted from a collaboration started after the 2011 Making Futures Conference.
Articulated as a practice of design-couture, conceptualized as a project that seeks a sense of social engagement through research, design and making of everyday ‘common couture’, Rusted puts craft action in a very close relation with daily (political) or practical life. Rusted designs collage pre-used fabric and clothing (found, bought or gifted) with new cloth, thus using items of fabric and clothing from different times, countries and with variety of social histories. This collaged sensibility and the act of sewing becomes a way of thinking about the different ways in which clothing is made and how styles change in respect to technology, economics, fashion, business and social change.
For Making Futures 2013 Rusted will present a series of new apron designs. Rusted is particularly interested in the apron as a fashion garment, perceived as an interlayer (an interface) between the private and public self, between work-craft and leisure, between work wear and urban chic, and between universal overall and individual identity. We conceive of the new apron as an entire way of thinking and being, enabling a review of definitions and conventions of fashion.
Appropriately designed as an over-garment, the apron is a symbol of interconnectedness, possessing a sense of flow between daily life and work, fluidity between work-wear to evening-wear, fluidity between men‘s wear and women‘s wear and ultimately fluidity between art, craft and society. The power of the apron, flexible in terms of practicality and symbolically (as a notional protective garment), potentially lies in its capacity to enable the wearer to adorn more expensive clothes at work, home and at leisure – the apron protects the wearer’s clothes from stains, stresses and abrasions. To only wash and replace the apron may also have an ecological role to play in reducing the number of clothes one needs and of reducing the number of washes of many clothes at high temperatures (Fletcher 2008, Flint 2011).
Taking inspiration from a variety of references, including traditional folk costumes, pit brow lass dress or the work of contemporary designers such as Martin Margiela or Teresa Martin, Rusted aims to animate the discussion on tradition vs. innovation in fashion and contribute to the current debate on the role of functionality, storytelling and emotional attachment to textiles in extending the lifecycle of clothing.
Keywords: practice-led research, craft, fashion, social engagement, work wear, apron, lifecycle design
References:
Fletcher, Kate (2008) “Use Matters” In: Sustainable Fashion and Textiles. Design Journeys, London: Earthscan, pp. 75-92
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The proposed paper presents an ongoing practice-led research project that resulted from a collaboration started after the 2011 Making Futures Conference.
Articulated as a practice of design-couture, conceptualized as a project that seeks a sense of social engagement through research, design and making of everyday ‘common couture’, Rusted puts craft action in a very close relation with daily (political) or practical life. Rusted designs collage pre-used fabric and clothing (found, bought or gifted) with new cloth, thus using items of fabric and clothing from different times, countries and with variety of social histories. This collaged sensibility and the act of sewing becomes a way of thinking about the different ways in which clothing is made and how styles change in respect to technology, economics, fashion, business and social change.
For Making Futures 2013 Rusted will present a series of new apron designs. Rusted is particularly interested in the apron as a fashion garment, perceived as an interlayer (an interface) between the private and public self, between work-craft and leisure, between work wear and urban chic, and between universal overall and individual identity. We conceive of the new apron as an entire way of thinking and being, enabling a review of definitions and conventions of fashion.
Appropriately designed as an over-garment, the apron is a symbol of interconnectedness, possessing a sense of flow between daily life and work, fluidity between work-wear to evening-wear, fluidity between men‘s wear and women‘s wear and ultimately fluidity between art, craft and society. The power of the apron, flexible in terms of practicality and symbolically (as a notional protective garment), potentially lies in its capacity to enable the wearer to adorn more expensive clothes at work, home and at leisure – the apron protects the wearer’s clothes from stains, stresses and abrasions. To only wash and replace the apron may also have an ecological role to play in reducing the number of clothes one needs and of reducing the number of washes of many clothes at high temperatures (Fletcher 2008, Flint 2011).
Taking inspiration from a variety of references, including traditional folk costumes, pit brow lass dress or the work of contemporary designers such as Martin Margiela or Teresa Martin, Rusted aims to animate the discussion on tradition vs. innovation in fashion and contribute to the current debate on the role of functionality, storytelling and emotional attachment to textiles in extending the lifecycle of clothing.
Keywords: practice-led research, craft, fashion, social engagement, work wear, apron, lifecycle design
References:
Fletcher, Kate (2008) “Use Matters” In: Sustainable Fashion and Textiles. Design Journeys, London: Earthscan, pp. 75-92