Crafting Anatomies: Archives, Dialogues, Fabrications

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Professor Katherine Townsend (Nottingham Trent University, UK) Rhian Solomon (Practising Artist, UK)

Crafting Anatomies

Archives, Dialogues, Fabrications

Professor Katherine Townsend (Nottingham Trent University, UK), Rhian Solomon (Practising Artist, UK), Amanda Briggs-Goode (Nottingham Trent University, UK)

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Bloomsbury Visual Arts
20 February 2020

Fashion design & theory; Textile design & theory; Material culture; Fashion & society

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.

Edited by: Professor Katherine Townsend (Nottingham Trent University UK), Rhian Solomon (Practising Artist, UK), Amanda Briggs-Goode (Nottingham Trent University, UK)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 1.110kg
ISBN: 9781350075474
ISBN 10: 1350075477
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 20 February 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

Katherine Townsend is Associate Professor of Fashion and Textile Crafts at Nottingham Trent University, UK, and co-editor of the Craft Research journal. Rhian Solomon is a Visual Artist questioning materialities of the human body through socially engaged arts practice. Her work draws parallels between skin and cloth, the body and dress to inspire future design innovation. Amanda Briggs-Goode is Head of Department for Fashion, Textiles and Knitwear Design and Professor of Textiles at Nottingham Trent University, UK, and author of several books including Textile Design (2013).

Reviews for Crafting Anatomies: Archives, Dialogues, Fabrications

This anthology poses a critical, creative, stimulating and timely challenge to textile designers, makers and consumers in the 21st century It is essential reading for students and researchers. Crafting Anatomies provokes, probes and gets inside the tensions that often exist when individuals cross disciplinary boundaries but emerge the richer in all aspects of practice. Crafting methodologies and reflective analysis are celebrated as a form of material intelligence through a series of case studies, archives, exhibition reviews, collaborative science based labs and studios, examining in detail the archived body, the body in dialogue and the fabricated body. Great stuff. * Janis Jefferies, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK *