Abstract The fashion industry is experiencing structural change as new manufacturing and distribution technologies emerge. Simultaneously, the environmental impact of garment production and the sector’s record on workers’ rights provokes increasing disquiet. This article explores how new technologies for distributing and making clothes interact with a shifting industrial policy agenda as neoclassical

This essay briefly explores some aspects of the relationship between epidemics and their visual representations. Subscribed to the case of COVID-19, a number of lyrical photographs, and their visual strategies, are presented as a tentative answer to some problematics related to the sickness-representation dynamics specific to this pandemic.

ABSTRACT Inclusive paediatric mobility (IPM) design is a growing field in need of critical and foundational designerly transitions in order to better deal with a wicked problem. This article adopts an illustrative mapping review method to interrogate the past 50 years of IPM design, aiming to identify alternative designerly ways that could help transition the field towards a more desirable long-term

Abstract Fashion models are often assumed to have a glamorous job with limited consideration for their well-being. This study aims to assess the well-being of models through semi-structured interviews with six professional fashion models and six industry professionals. Thematic analysis revealed that although models experienced improved self-confidence, they also reported heightened anxiety levels

Abstract Human-centred design has grown into a widely applied field that has produced a large number of standards, methods and guidelines for designing meaningful and usable products and services and direct contact to users seems to define whether a project is considered human-centric or not. However, as the field has grown more mature, companies have also matured in human-centredness, and thus, they

Basic Design is the beginning of design course series in architectural education which initiates architecture students to both architectural education and the profession. First-year design curricula have generally common goals of students’ acquisitions about design knowledge, skill and competence; however, ways of teaching may vary. Here, we discuss our approach to teaching basic design during the

The COVID-19 pandemic has led most countries to adopt precautionary isolation measures to prevent the spread of the virus. In this context, teaching through online studios has become a necessity. This study aimed to identify students’ practical experiences in fully online interior design studios and determine whether these experiences differ according to students’ educational levels to help improve

Design and craft education, like that of the Swedish school subject, Sloyd, has great potential for Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). With so many possibilities, it is relevant to investigate what teachers teach about sustainability, and how. Therefore, the aim of this article is to examine what Sloyd teachers express that they do as they educate for sustainability in design and craft education

Teaching complex studio processes requires methods beyond linear step-by-step instruction and methods more consistent with authentic studio practices. Instructors have to be able to deconstruct their own decision-making processes, processes that have become somewhat automatic through experience, and then use this insight to anticipate how learners with less experience might respond when presented with

Museums and galleries have long welcomed, and long valued, visiting family groups, and many offer ‘family workshops’. In practice, most workshops are primarily directed at children, and accompanying adults are left to observe. However, we suggest that in actively observing and also pitching in, adults too are engaged in learning. Using the theoretical lens of intent participation, we discuss data from

Insistence on verbal literacy as a key skill occurs throughout education. There needs to be a greater awareness of literacy as a sensory capacity: creative voices are seen, heard and performed. I argue that all the senses form embodied understanding, and obstructing this flow can impede learning. This article questions how we can use embodied, sensory and performative methods to enable student ownership

Art educators are increasingly interested in the affective dimensions of pedagogy. This article explores students’ reports of feeling more relaxed and less stressed in the art room, data drawn from a three-year study of thirty arts-rich secondary schools. Drawing on recent scholarship on affect, we suggest that these feelings were in part the result of ‘atmosphere’ – mobile bodies in (1) a curated

At a time of widespread concern over the decline of art teaching in schools, this article considers the findings of a practitioner led action research project exploring the potential of art museum and artist-led CPD (Continued Professional Development) programmes to develop primary teacher knowledge, skills and confidence teaching in art and design. The project involved 68 teachers from over 40 primary

This article explores how the Museum, Art and Wellbeing project brought primary school children and seniors from the same local community together to engage in explorative activities designed to reveal individual and mutual assets for wellbeing. The Museum, Art and Wellbeing project undertook a participatory arts-based approach to investigate how the assets of a large public institution such as Museums

This article explores the potential of the idea of ‘research-creation’ when working with children making films in the context of a project that explored children’s experience of school. The proposition of the article is that rather than see children’s work as something to be discussed or extracted from, if it is seen as ‘the work’ it is differently situated. In the article, an artist and an ethnographer

Abstract Fashion conservation practices could overlap with sustainable fashion design methods in some instances, and one of the most prominent upcycling methods, "repair," is such an example. Sustaining the longevity of garments and repairing the damages to give multiple lives to a garment is a common intent for both practices, yet, the interventions and manifestations of repair could be opposite intentions

This study analyses the Israeli stamp series ‘Landscapes of Israel’ issued between 1971–1980, revealing the series’ geographical pattern, themes and hidden messages. The stamp images and information folders were critically examined within their historical context. The analysis revealed that the spatial distribution of sites also included captured territories, and by this Israel indirectly drew its

(2021). The Aesthetics of Global Protest; Global Activism and Art and Conflict in the 21st Century. Visual Studies. Ahead of Print.

In recent years, a growing academic interest in both the theoretical and empirical examination of visual representations of migrants has become visible in the social sciences. Scholars coming from diverse disciplines have significantly contributed to our critical knowledge of the processes (e.g. depersonalisation, dehistorisation or orientalisation) and stereotypical representations through which migrants

(2021). The Wig: A Hairbrained History. Dress. Ahead of Print.

Abstract The overall aim of this study is to explore the potential of Design Thinking to bring value to small firms through ambidexterity, which is essential to firms’ performance and survival. Specifically, we investigate how Design Thinking can benefit ambidextrous dynamics between small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) managers’ entrepreneurial and administrative mindsets. The empirical foundation

ABSTRACT Artists’ adoption of CNC devices and related technologies is making possible novel printmaking processes and variations on techniques. Such changes suggest a need to broaden our understanding of what constitutes a print under contemporary technological conditions. This article looks at the human-machine relationship and the state of creative cognition in the act of woodblock printmaking. Connections

ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic has caused major disruptions to every sector, including education. Virtual space during the pandemic has enabled a range of creative events, such as streaming performances, cyber tours, and online activities. Within confined spaces, performing artists have quickly become digital experts in pushing boundaries. This paper examines how tertiary dance teachers and students

ABSTRACT This article focuses on a series of selfies taken by a Celebes Crested Macaque monkey who seized a camera from a human photographer and absconded with it. The monkey's smiling self-portraits appeared in the international press, sparking legal and public controversy around issues of copyright, royalties and fair use of the images. Arguably, the very fact of the debate is indicative of the breakdown

ABSTRACT This research proposes value correspondence, which posits that the value shared in correspondence between stakeholders is essential for the development of placemaking in rural areas. By investigating location-based media; particularly mobile augmented reality (MAR) apps aimed at both reviving local tourism in rural townships and soliciting opinions from major stakeholders, the author has determined

ABSTRACT Digital games propagate mythical stories and revitalize medieval legends. Amplification of gothic elements in contemporary media and in digital games reflects an ideological and aesthetic transformation of cultural products in contemporary society. This essay discusses distinctiveness in game narratives by citing diverse theories, including semiotics and theories of psychoanalysis, as well

(2021). Special Issue: Methodological innovations and challenges of research on digitally connected homes. Digital Creativity: Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 250-251.

The basic design course mainly focuses on training students in their form development ability, including two parts: graphic figure and three-dimensional form. However, in terms of form development, it is not just to create a certain form arbitrarily, but to convey the creator’s intention based on this form. For students who are new to the field of design, it will be very difficult to convey their own

The article contextualises the emergence of the Feral Art School, established in Hull in 2018 by artist-educators following the winding down of Hull School of Art and Design. This alternative art school is the most recent of many established in the UK since the government’s Independent Review of Higher Education Funding & Student Finance or Browne Review. This article argues that the processes of ‘economisation’

Within the context of fashion design, fabric is the key variable in the design process, offering infinite options in terms of variety, quality, weight, colour, texture and pattern. The manipulation of these fabrics is an effective tool at the designer’s disposal, which can be used to create innovation in a design. This study examines the use of fabric manipulation for fostering creativity in the context

Visual methodologies employed within qualitative research projects can add deep insight and reflexivity to interview or observational data and are an ideal means to facilitate storytelling, reminiscence and encourage socialisation. This paper draws upon research using photography as a dual-purpose data collection and data dissemination tool within a residential aged care environment and explores the

Abstract The complexities and unique requirements of entrepreneurship and commercialization require novel prototyping approaches that go beyond their traditional application in engineering design. Prototyping, as a key part of Design Thinking, can address these requirements by focusing on creative problem-solving and by supporting entrepreneurs’ reasoning. The broader requirements of entrepreneurship

This article explores cultural production on queer migrant sex work. More specifically, I critically analyse a photography series by Bradley Secker titled Sexugees and a short documentary film by Manuel Abramovich titled Blue Boy. Despite sex work featuring in many narratives on queer migration, this is often treated as one marginal aspect of broader experiences. Sexugees and Blue Boy take an alternative

This paper analyses the gendered expectations of time of Spanish middle-class parents. The main goal is to understand how parents value their parenting time. Parents embody a specific social structuring of the everyday that is both gendered and individualist. The claim of this paper is that the value of parenting time, despite being expressed in individual terms, is shaped by gendered social expectations

(2021). (W)ARCHIVES: Archival imaginaries, war, and contemporary art. Visual Studies. Ahead of Print.

Abstract The purpose of this study has two parts: a) to investigate how fashion brands use Instagram as a marketing tool, and b) to identify factors of Instagram posts influencing followers’ engagement. A content analysis was conducted on Instagram posts created by the top 10 fashion brands based on the ranking of the engagement. The researchers analyzed brand posts covering a 4-week period from October

Abstract The kilt is one of the most recognizable garments in the world and is an important element in Scottish national culture, and although the Scottish kilt has existed for approximately 500 years, there is scant literature available that documents Scottish kiltmaking design and production processes. Due to this lack of attention it is important to understand kilts and kiltmakers more deeply. Therefore

Abstract This paper reports on a research project aimed at exploring how designers can activate and sustain entrepreneurial ventures within regional textile communities in the Philippines and the UK. The mindset of consumers, who believe that textiles and fashion should be cheap, has made it difficult to successfully enable regional textile communities. With this in mind, two case studies were undertaken

(2021). Media and conflict, co-constitutive reflecting practices. Visual Studies. Ahead of Print.

Abstract The dominant practice in Western map studies has been to consider maps as “sovereign,” that is, as individual images separated from the material context of their production, circulation, and consumption. Book studies, also, have generally overlooked maps when considering graphic elements such as engravings and photographs. Yet many maps are located within, and contribute to, the larger arguments

Abstract Contemporary lyric series deploy many strategies from forensic (courtroom) rhetoric to persuade their readers that an injustice has taken place. Ekphrasis is one of the primary overlapping strategies in both forensic rhetoric and the lyric, documenting what cannot be seen, what has been lost, or framing an object to serve persuasive ends. Returning to ancient definitions of ekphrasis as any

Abstract The adaptation of texts by contemporary British-Somali poet Warsan Shire for Beyoncé’s visual album Lemonade, released in 2016, raises several questions about poetic representation in the twenty-first-century mediascape. Shire’s poems, which have been composed for a variety of media, ranging from print distribution to audio recordings to online circulation, serve as transitions between the

Abstract The Poliorcetica (Vat. gr. 1605) is a Byzantine treatise on siege warfare, composed by the so-called Heron of Byzantium, which was illuminated with drawings and schematics for the construction and use of military tools and structures in the eleventh century. Using an object-oriented lens, this article looks closely at the word-image relations used by the Poliorcetica’s author to engage the

Abstract Dorothea Tanning’s painting Fatala (1947) reveals a solitary female figure reaching her hand through a door. This borrows plainly from an artist renowned for rendering women as statues or storefront mannequins: the Greek-born Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico, whose early corpus formed one of Surrealism’s most prominent—and fraught—precedents. Yet Tanning’s canvas also conjures up another

Abstract The closely interrelated enterprises in the humanistic world of the Republic of Letters, especially in the production of emblem books, created collaborations between artists and scholars. The production of emblem books, with their characteristic interplay between word and image, creates a place where humanists and artists could meet. Consequently, not only did men of letters use pictorial

Abstract Best known as a caricaturist who skewered the politicians and social mores of nineteenth-century France, Honoré Daumier also had a deep and abiding engagement with the seventeenth-century playwright Molière. This article examines Daumier’s paintings of Molière’s plays Le Malade imaginaire (1673) and Les Fourberies de Scapin (1671), initiated shortly after Daumier was fired from a thirty-year

Abstract The expanding role of design suggests design is crucial for more than merely improving innovation and competitiveness for businesses. Although some studies have investigated the role and impact of design for social enterprises, there is little evidence that design is supported in social enterprises as a strategic driver of sustainable growth. This study analysed Design Support Programmes (DSPs)

OVERVIEW Entrepreneurs form complex ecosystems which are challenging to understand, especially for those with limited capabilities. In pursuit of understanding ecosystems, this research explores manufacturing incubators in Botswana and UK makerspaces as local entrepreneurial ecosystems, comparing a developing and an industrialized context. This doctoral research uses a qualitative approach to evoke

John Berger’s warnings around the gaze in Ways of Seeing and the discourses surrounding NASA’s Blue Marble, the 1972 image of the whole Earth from space, propose a visual practice based on vision as inculcating an alienating objectivity. I return to these foundational texts from 1972 in order to produce symptomatic readings that suggest a background for certain attitudes around digital images. Introducing

Some visually impaired people/persons (VIP) use guide dogs to help them navigate when walking outdoors, e.g. when shopping, visiting friends or going to work. In this article, I show how a VIP and his dog function as an interspecies assemblage, in which they co-operate to accomplish navigating and avoiding obstacles. Based on ethnomethodological multimodal conversation analysis and video ethnographic

Visual methodology consists of recording, analysing, and communicating social life through photographs, films, and videos. This qualitative sociology branch considers the use of images as important techniques and methods in social research and identifies the primary role of visual experience in cognitive processes, through the visual data itself. In particular, the videos proposed in this contribution

Abstract This study explores the effectiveness of the architectural model as a means of implementing a sensory ethnographical research methodology. An architectural model, constructed as part of a wider design research approach, became the visual probe in a site-specific participatory ‘place-event’ with field experts. Using physical objects in sensory ethnography is well established, however, the application

Abstract New product development (NPD) plays a significant role in maintaining competitive advantage and increasing market share. NPD is highly dependent on the existing knowledge of individuals within the company, which is shared and used to create new knowledge. Employees’ tacit knowledge is another significant source of know-how for companies. Craft knowledge – a form of tacit knowledge that includes

This article analyzes the history of two extant bloomer costumes from the 1850 s, one in the collections of the San Diego History Center and the other in the Cortland County, New York Historical Society. An analysis of the two bloomer costumes reveals two different styles of dress-reform outfits worn by women during this era. Biographical information on the women who owned these outfits expands upon

This research documents the fashioning of Charles Pierce, a prominent female impersonator in the mid-to-late twentieth century. During his career of over forty years, Pierce delivered acclaimed comedic impressions of gay icons such as Bette Davis and Katharine Hepburn. This paper contextualizes and interprets the development of Pierce’s cross-dressing from tuxedo and a few woman’s fashion accessories

Abstract Despite the potential to support ageing in place, there is still low Assistive Technology (AT) uptake among older adults. Smart Materials (SMs) have the potential to play an important role in AT innovation without detracting from the aesthetic appearance and ease of use. The MATUROLIFE project aims to develop enhanced AT products for older adults by employing smart metallised textiles, through

Surveillance, as a phenomenon, is connected to the power and control of the surveyor towards the surveyed subjects who suffer from isolation. According to this perspective, this paper strengthens the essence of surveillance in thriller films and explores the different panoptical forms. It represents each form according to its effect on the viewer’s engagement and embodiment by relating it to the logic

(2021). Editorial. Fashion Practice: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 189-191.

(2021). Designing Fashion’s Future, Present Practice and Tactics for Sustainable Change. Fashion Practice: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 324-325.

This paper interrogates the visual images and texts Nigerians posted on social media – Facebook as a counter-narrative to President Buhari’s narrative that ‘we have a very young population, a lot of them have not been to school, and they are claiming they should sit and do nothing but get housing, health care, and education free’. The narrative of Muhammadu Buhari was interpreted by Nigerians as suggesting