There is no denying that the coronavirus pandemic changed our lives. Much has been said, reported, studied and written about its social, economic, political and health implications. What did the pa...

Sustainability-focused design research is witnessing a change in approach with the emergence of More-than-human Design (MTHD), which challenges human-centered thinking by incorporating nonhuman per...

This study focuses on the complex design process of developing museum exhibitions that feature contemporary craft artifacts, while leveraging immersive technologies such as virtual reality (VR), au...

Published in Dress: The Journal of the Costume Society of America (Ahead of Print, 2024)

Published in Dress: The Journal of the Costume Society of America (Ahead of Print, 2024)

Using genetic visualization technology to effectively convey cultural information plays an important role in preserving cultural heritage. The key to preserving and developing cultural ecology leve...

North American dress and textile museums have long been rooted in colonial ideals due to the long-standing perpetuation of Eurocentrism as superior to all other ways of knowing. The fashion and tex...

This article discusses four erotic humour magazines – Piliç (Chick) (1930–1931), Bıldırcın (Quail) (1931), Çapkın Kız (The Flirtatious Girl) (1931) and Güvercin (Pigeon) (1931) – that appeared one ...

The Textile Museum of Canada (the Textile Museum) is pursuing institutional change with a goal to meaningfully address and redress absences in its permanent collection of over 15,000 textiles. To s...

The invisible gynaecological condition, Endometriosis, is mostly viewed from a distorted frame of reference and with a negative connotation, influenced by societal factors such as expectations of t...

Expertise research studies show that experts more effectively allocate their attentional resources and exhibit distinct gaze behaviour. This study aims to investigate the effect of design expertise...

In this paper, we propose a novel interactive composition approach in which locomotion within a virtual environment is used as a means to trigger predefined sound events, attenuations of sound para...

This ground-breaking visual essay encapsulates a 20-year ethnographic study on manual sand miners in Koilwar, Bihar, India, along the River Sone. Highlighting the participant perspective of the min...

Although women account for about half of the users in the digital games market, people still consider the gaming world predominantly male. In the literature, we found studies that report on game fe...

Bio Design represents a new approach to integrating biological systems and processes into design, challenging traditional boundaries between the natural and artificial. Despite its potential, Bio D...

Published in Visual Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)

This study explores how design intervention can promote the transformation of the traditional craft industry into the distributed manufacturing model. First, theories relevant to distributed manufa...

This study aims to explore how prototypes, sketches and CAD models supported designers during the designers during the early ideation, idea development in the engineering design process flow. Using...

Humanity has reached the point where current consumer lifestyles are not sustainable, and this status quo must be disrupted if we are to slow down climate change. Personalisation is a technique whi...

With their intricate visual structure and cultural significance, Chinese characters present a unique realm for exploration in graphic design. However, the integration of graphic elements, such as t...

For too long, museums have used thin, white mannequins as the standard for body surrogates in dress and textile exhibitions. This article explores some of the issues surrounding this practice and t...

Design students, professionals, and academics often use design labels, such as social design, co-design, and sustainable design, to position or explain their work. We argue that the labels are insu...

Published in Fashion Practice: The Journal of Design, Creative Process & the Fashion Industry (Vol. 16, No. 2, 2024)

Focusing on museums, this article illustrates how textile crafts can become a source for scholarly inquiry and can enhance more inclusive practices at museums. The empirical data comprises four mus...

This article uses the case study of the California wildfires of 2020/2021 to examine the visual discourse on fires on social media and investigate how it was harnessed by environmental activists to...

Published in The Design Journal: An International Journal for All Aspects of Design (Ahead of Print, 2024)

As people pay more attention to users’ subjective experiences, emotion becomes more important for productions and designers. Emotion has been defined, classified, and evaluated through interaction ...

Published in The Design Journal: An International Journal for All Aspects of Design (Vol. 27, No. 4, 2024)

Published in Dress: The Journal of the Costume Society of America (Ahead of Print, 2024)

Published in Dress: The Journal of the Costume Society of America (Ahead of Print, 2024)

This text aims to revisit a practice developed in a course on art education within the Ph.D. programme in Arts Education at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto. We approached this space through the construction of a workbook that was practised during classes. The exercises aimed to reflect on the positionality we occupy and on art education as a field of practice/research built on several

Published in The Design Journal: An International Journal for All Aspects of Design (Ahead of Print, 2024)

Published in Visual Studies (Vol. 39, No. 3, 2024)

Published in Visual Studies (Vol. 39, No. 3, 2024)

Published in Dress: The Journal of the Costume Society of America (Ahead of Print, 2024)

This practice-based research adapts Kathakali and Khon make-up and costume design methodologies for jewellery making to study classical performing arts materiality. The researcher creates Kathakali...

Published in Dress: The Journal of the Costume Society of America (Ahead of Print, 2024)

Fatness may be finding representation on the catwalk, but it has few friends in the museum. This article uses a case study of the Costume Institute alongside interviews with a variety of museum pro...

This study considers artworks from across the modern and contemporary period (with a focus on the 1940s onwards) where writing is presented as incomprehensible to the viewer. This can occur, for in...

Building on recent specialised studies on the critique of illustration in individual authors or periods, this article develops a new methodology for a large comparative study of the critique of lit...

This article discusses the implications of multimodal artificial intelligence (AI), including image generators such as DALL·E, for the traditional concept of ekphrasis. Using ekphrasis as an exampl...

Rebuses—visual riddles that replace words or syllables by images—were highly popular in early modern Europe. Many broadsheets containing rebus poems were printed in France and Germany in the late s...

This article focuses upon the arrangement of written words in geometric shapes or patterns—specifically in Arabic script. It takes the case of the Kitāb al-diryāq (Book of Antidotes, 595 AH/1199 CE...

Published in Visual Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)

This study addresses the research gap in utilizing anthropometric data to develop size charts for Kenyan maternity wear, considering the diverse cultural, regional, and ethnic factors influencing p...

This paper examines the evolution of Shanghai into a fashion hub. Through reviewing its fashion origins and the sequential stages of fashion development, the study reveals the formal recognition of...

Published in Dress: The Journal of the Costume Society of America (Ahead of Print, 2024)

Despite the growing presence of highly skilled African immigrants in Quebec, Canada, there is a paucity of research on their adaptation processes, specifically regarding survival and social support...

The conservation field has recently experienced a significant paradigm shift called “peoples-based” conservation, which centers collaboration with communities for whom cultural heritage has meaning...

Published in Dress: The Journal of the Costume Society of America (Ahead of Print, 2024)

Published in Dress: The Journal of the Costume Society of America (Ahead of Print, 2024)

This visual essay, analysing a series of photographs curated by Indian photographer K.R. Sunil, explores how climate change leads to human precarity, triggering feelings of economic, psychological,...

Woman social media content creators’ visual expertise is ill understood and arguably overlooked. Through the example of lifestyle-creators, this article explores the ways they plan, produce, and lo...

Published in Dress: The Journal of the Costume Society of America (Ahead of Print, 2024)

This paper explores how prop-based virtual reality storytelling (VR&P-ST) can enhance user-centred product conceptual design (UCPCD) by the perspective of ‘computing with things’. The study introdu...

This study aims to reveal the concepts that constitute space through architectural discourses. Within the scope of this study, a conceptual reading model has been developed based on theoretical and...

Public participation in heritage conservation is an area that lacks proper investigation in the urban planning and design discipline. To address this gap, this paper presents an empirical study of ...

The co-design approach is increasingly popular in facilitating the interchange of knowledge among multiple stakeholders. However, a new challenge emerged during the post-pandemic era when working f...