-
Under Tension, Under Pressure, Making Waves Dress Pub Date : 2024-03-14 L. Leann Kanda
The Fortuny Delphos dress from the first half of the twentieth century is famous not only for its unique pleated drape but also for the mystery of the technique used to make it. This article detail...
-
Breaking from realism: exploring the potential of glitch in AI-generated dance Digital Creativity Pub Date : 2024-03-09 Benedikte Wallace, Kristian Nymoen, Jim Torresen, Charles Patrick Martin
What role does deviation from realism play in the potential for generative artificial intelligence (AI) as a creative tool? A deep case-study was performed to explore interactions with AI-generated...
-
A closer look at Cuba’s public health model that prioritizes population health Visual Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Helena J. Chapman
As the largest Caribbean island, Cuba is known for its picturesque Havana boardwalk, musical rhythms, and tropical climate. A closer look at the national public health model that integrates care fo...
-
Missed Opportunities: Fashion Fabric Sourcing Professionals’ Use of the MSI in the Higg Index Fashion Practice Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Noël Palomo-Lovinski
This qualitative study examines the disconnect between the intentions of the Sustainable Apparel Coalition’s (SAC) use of the Higg suite of tools and the actual use by designers, product developers...
-
Editorial Fashion Practice Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Professor Sandy Black
Published in Fashion Practice: The Journal of Design, Creative Process & the Fashion Industry (Vol. 16, No. 1, 2024)
-
Designerly resistance: Professional object design in support of Lebanon’s street protests The Design Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Karma Dabaghi
Design activism theory calls on designers to take responsibility for using their design skills to make real social change though influencing the mindset of their audience. This paper discusses the ...
-
Using cellphilm-making as advocacy: adolescent girls’ access to reproductive health services in primary health care facilities in rural northern KwaZulu-Natal Visual Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Nompumelelo Gloria Mfeka-Nkabinde, Relebohile Moletsane, Anna Silvia Voce
This paper reports on a qualitative study that employed participatory visual methods to understand how adolescents access contraception in a rural community of northern KwaZulu-Natal. We focus on a...
-
Kurt Rowland's Visual Education: A Quiet Force in Post‐War Art Pedagogy The International Journal of Art & Design Education (IF 0.813) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Donna Goodwin, P. Bruce Uhrmacher
This paper introduces the life and work of art educator and designer Kurt Rowland (1920–1980) who authored the first set of textbooks on visual education and played a role in the shifting world of art and design education in post‐war Britian. We detail the foundational experiences of his extraordinary life in the first half of the 20th century including surviving the Spanish Civil War and La Retirada
-
Upcycling Classics—Sustainable Design Development through Fabric Manipulation Techniques in Fashion Design Education The International Journal of Art & Design Education (IF 0.813) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Angela Burns
As the sustainable fashion movement gains momentum, there is a growing need to introduce such concepts to the next generation of fashion designer. One approach to produce sustainable designs is upcycling, defined as the salvage and reuse of discarded or found items into new products. This study examines a pedagogical approach for engaging 2nd year undergraduate textile and fashion design students in
-
Eliciting Empathy Embedded in Design Conversations: Empathic Perspective‐Taking of Design Teachers Towards Design Students, Users and Materials The International Journal of Art & Design Education (IF 0.813) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Pelin Efilti, Koray Gelmez
This paper aims to interrogate the design studio conversations between teachers and students in order to explore the indicators regarding empathy. To investigate design conversations occurring between design teachers and design students, participant observation studies were conducted at two universities in Finland and Turkey. As an empathic indicator, we addressed (1) how design teachers take the perspective
-
Enabling Students' Wellbeing in Distance Design Education The International Journal of Art & Design Education (IF 0.813) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Nicole Lotz, Muriel Sippel
Understanding changes to student wellbeing on design modules in a distance higher education setting is difficult. Previous research suggested that environmental, study and skills‐related barriers impact the wellbeing of learners at a distance. This study sought to understand the experiences of barriers and what enabled distance design students’ wellbeing. It identifies avenues to balance tensions between
-
Montage as process of knowledge mobilization in architectural design The Design Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Jan Silberberger
Drawing on findings from an ethnographic study, the paper at hand provides an example of a pronounced way of working with montage as a means of mobilizing knowledge in the architectural design proc...
-
Imagining the city Visual Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Gary Bratchford, John Grady, Julie Patarin-Jossec, Kate Korroch, Susan Hansen
Published in Visual Studies (Vol. 39, No. 1-2, 2024)
-
Critical visual approaches to understand the complexities and contradictions of the city: introduction to the special issue for Visual Studies Visual Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Geoffrey Deverteuil, Brian Doucet
Published in Visual Studies (Vol. 39, No. 1-2, 2024)
-
The death and life of great visual urbanism Visual Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Elvin Wyly
Published in Visual Studies (Vol. 39, No. 1-2, 2024)
-
Customized Prèt-a-Porter: West Africa’s Answer to the Quest for Sustainable Fashion Fashion Practice Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Adwoa Owusuaa Bobie
The discourse on sustainable fashion has so far ignored two important perspectives; the contribution of fashion from Africa and how socio-cultural factors contribute to sustainability. The paper br...
-
Unnatural nature – visual, spatial, and temporal contexts controlling our air Visual Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Diana Papademas, Stephen Kirkpatrick
The article is the result of the collaboration of a sociologist and librarian who have photodocumented the Sagamore Hill National Historic Site for decades to study the changed ecology, revaluation...
-
Design is… redefining measurement – confrontation with climate catastrophe: Beyond objectivity and towards regenerative impact The Design Journal Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Chris Speed
Published in The Design Journal: An International Journal for All Aspects of Design (Vol. 27, No. 1, 2024)
-
Networking concert halls, musicians, and interactive textiles: Interwoven Sound Spaces Digital Creativity Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Federico Visi, Tatiana Basso, Berit Greinke, Emma Wood, Philipp Gschwendtner, Cat Hope, Stefan Östersjö
Interwoven Sound Spaces is an interdisciplinary project which brought together telematic music performance, interactive textiles, interaction design, and artistic research. A team of researchers co...
-
‘It’s all about connecting’: using visual methods to surface the multisensory and more-than-human dimensions of health information Visual Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Deborah Lupton, Ash Watson, Vaughan Wozniak-O’Connor
Human bodies and health states are becoming increasingly digitised and datafied through the use of digital technologies such as mobile and wearable devices, apps and software, electronic medical re...
-
Issue Information The International Journal of Art & Design Education (IF 0.813) Pub Date : 2024-02-20
-
Exposure and embracing vulnerability The Design Journal Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Louise Valentine
Published in The Design Journal: An International Journal for All Aspects of Design (Vol. 27, No. 1, 2024)
-
Cereal Box Chic, Ready-to-Wear, and Couture Dress Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Joshua D. Simon, Kelly L. Reddy-Best
Luis Estévez, a prominent fashion designer whose work spanned from the 1950s to the 1990s, made an enduring impact on the industry. His clientele included notable public figures like former First L...
-
Style and Society: Dressing the Georgians Dress Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Emily Levick
Published in Dress: The Journal of the Costume Society of America (Ahead of Print, 2024)
-
In Memoriam Dress Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Margaret T. Ordoñez
Published in Dress: The Journal of the Costume Society of America (Ahead of Print, 2024)
-
Case study of design-driven innovation in Japanese high-end electrical fan market: Focusing on differences in originators The Design Journal Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Yoshito Kubo, Osamu Sato
This study aims to clarify the differences in processes, outcomes, and post-launch ripple effects in design-driven innovation (DDI), starting from industrial designers (IDs) and developmental techn...
-
Dressed for History: Why Costume Collections Matter: Women’s Fashion 1750–2000 Dress Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Rebecca Halliday
Published in Dress: The Journal of the Costume Society of America (Ahead of Print, 2024)
-
Weak in comparison to dreams Visual Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Anna Stielau
Published in Visual Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
-
The sacred and profane in design: Exploring the transcendent nature of ordinary products The Design Journal Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Serkan Güneş, Çisem Ercömert Görgün
This paper explores how specific products transcend their utilitarian purposes, evoking profound consumer fascination. These objects, characterized by an elusive quality surpassing practicality, ac...
-
Development of an extended TAM model for enabling online social experience with smart home displays for older adults The Design Journal Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Ke Ma
A sustainable future requires prioritising concerns like the well-being of older individuals, considering the world’s rapidly ageing population. This PhD thesis applies the research through an inte...
-
An application of generative AI for knitted textile design in fashion The Design Journal Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Xiaopei Wu, Li Li
In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) in the form of generative deep learning models have proliferated as a tool to facilitate or exhibit creativity across various design fields. When it co...
-
Space shaping in the design process for creative coding: a case study in media multiplicities Digital Creativity Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Kurt Mikolajczyk, Samuel Ferguson, Linda Candy, Augusto Dias Periera dos Santos, Oliver Bown
This paper describes the design process for The Mind at Work, a light and sound art installation using networked devices, as a case study in working creatively with complex and unknown technologica...
-
The Boca Bauhaus Marcel Breuer, BRiC and Lynn University’s NFT museum Digital Creativity Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Cesar Santalo, Andrew J. Corsa, Alex Duque, Ariel Baron-Robbins
‘Art and Technology – A New Unity.’ This was a slogan of the Bauhaus art school, but it could also be a slogan for digital artworks that have been minted as NFTs. We trace the lineage of the idea o...
-
An acceptance model of digital education in intangible cultural heritage based on cultural awareness Digital Creativity Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Xin Kang, Xin-Zhu Li, Chun-Ching Chen
Despite the increasing application of digital education in intangible cultural heritage (ICH), user acceptance of digital technology needs further investigation. In this study, a mobile AR system f...
-
The NFT memento: digital thingness and NFTs in exhibition design Digital Creativity Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Frances Liddell
‘Live minting’ is an emerging trend in exhibition design which offers visitors the opportunity to mint an NFT memento in the exhibition. This paper examines three examples of this current trend in ...
-
Reading computer-generated texts: examining code as a reading strategy Digital Creativity Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Tuuli Hongisto
This article explores code as part of a reading strategy, focusing on a case study of works produced as part of a programming challenge entitled National Novel Generation Month (NaNoGenMo). For the...
-
Heritage values, digital storytelling, and heritage communication: the exploration of cultural heritage sites in virtual environments Digital Creativity Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Hyeseung Shim, Kyung Taek Oh, Conor O’Malley, Ji Young Jun, Chung-Kon Shi
Cultural heritage communication (CHCom) refers to the transfer of values that underlie heritage attributes and settings to intended audiences. Emerging digital storytelling approaches combined with...
-
The Potential of Visual Arts Education: Strengthening Pre-Service Primary Teachers’ Cultural Identity The International Journal of Art & Design Education (IF 0.813) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Veronica Garcia-Lazo, Valentina Donoso, Kata Springinzeisz, Rolando Jeldres
This article reports on research focused on a visual arts education course offered during a primary teacher training in Chile. It was driven by the increasing cultural diversity in Chilean schools, the potential of art education to respond to this context and the limited space that this field has in the national curriculum, an issue that is replicated in most teachers’ training programmes. Intercultural
-
Out-of-School Activities in Architectural Education: MUISCARCH International Architecture Students Congress The International Journal of Art & Design Education (IF 0.813) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Emel Cantürk Akyildiz, Yekta Özgüven
This research aims to question the effect of adopting non-formal and informal learning environments into architectural education on the overall learning experiences of architecture students. In this context, a series of out-of-school activities organised within the scope of Maltepe University, Faculty of Architecture and Design, which are based on a variety of different non-formal and informal learning
-
Epistemologies and Aesthetics of Curriculum, Pedagogical Praxis and Assessment in the Visual Arts: A Comparative Analysis of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme and the New South Wales Stage 6 Visual Arts Syllabus The International Journal of Art & Design Education (IF 0.813) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Fiona Blaikie, Karen Maras
We compare epistemologies and aesthetics in the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme and the Australian New South Wales Stage 6 Visual Arts Syllabus, focusing on curriculum content, pedagogical praxis, and assessment strategies. Both curricula feature making, reflexivity, and critique. International Baccalaureate components are Exhibition, the Process Portfolio, and the Comparative Study.
-
Acknowledging Identity and Intersectionality—A Transformative Framework for Design Education Futures The International Journal of Art & Design Education (IF 0.813) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Nicola St John, Fanny Suhendra
Design education in Australia is still largely dominated by Westphalian perspectives, values, histories and ways of learning. The focus on Euro-western aesthetics, technologies, timelines and processes marginalises other identities, cultures and places. This signals to students that they should internalise, value and master dominant narratives, knowledges and ways of designing. Responding to this legacy
-
Exploring Visiting Artists' Dual Roles and Constraints in Art Educational Programmes The International Journal of Art & Design Education (IF 0.813) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Chang Xu
This article investigated the multifaceted role of artists in educational programmes, focusing on the challenges they face while balancing their identity as artist-teacher, artist teacher, artist-educator, and artist educator. This research was conducted in two phases. Phase one interrogated the effectiveness of artists taking on dual roles as both artists and educators/teachers within international
-
Sensorial Contemporary Arts, Mindfulness and Play for Children's Post-Pandemic Recovery – Qualitative Evaluation of The Children's Sensorium The International Journal of Art & Design Education (IF 0.813) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Tamara Borovica, Grace McQuilten, Renata Kokanović, Larissa Hjorth, Angela Clarke, Camilla Maling, N'arweet Carolyn Briggs
‘The Children's Sensorium – art, play and mindfulness for post-pandemic recovery’ was an exhibition that brought together sensory-based art installations featuring First Nations Connection to Country with mindfulness and embodiment strategies to enhance well-being for children (ages 4–11). As the COVID-19 pandemic slowly moves from the centre of public attention, we are starting to gauge the impact
-
What if Walter Gropius were a Woman: Alternative Design History Teaching Experiment The International Journal of Art & Design Education (IF 0.813) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Li Zhang, Yujia Liu, Youtian Wu
As one of the most literary and transdisciplinary cultural practices, speculative design has become one of the best mediums for discussing emerging technologies, the Anthropocene and the ecological crisis. When design history is merely perceived as established knowledge about the past and fails to engage in dialogue with reality or individual interaction, it often struggles to inspire students' agency
-
A user-centred collective system design approach for Smart Product-Service Systems: A case study on fitness product design The Design Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Cong Fang, Wei Liu, Huan Lin, Yuge Qi, Xin Tian, Yi Huang, Stephen Jia Wang
Emerging technologies have significantly contributed to the evolution of traditional product-service systems (PSS) into smart PSS. This transformation demands a fresh perspective and a more inventi...
-
Visual bodies, ritualised performances: an offline-online analysis of Extinction Rebellion’s protests in Finland and Portugal Visual Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Carla Malafaia, Jenni Kettunen, Eeva Luhtakallio
Protests are, and have always been, fundamentally visual and embodied phenomena. However, the unprecedented quest for visibility instigated by social media brings about novel intricacies for contem...
-
Between Real and Phantasy: Encouraging Creativity in the First Year Architectural Education Through Fairy Tales The International Journal of Art & Design Education (IF 0.813) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Lerzan Aras
The first year architectural education is based on understanding the nature of creativity in design thinking, which serves to build a solid base for a real design process; and in studios several methods are used to develop it. This study aims to discuss how using fairy tales can serve as a tool for encouraging creativity in first year design studios. It is based on a 6-week-long basic design II summer
-
The architecture exhibition as a stage of mediated narratives Digital Creativity Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Popi Iacovou, Georgios Artopoulos
This paper discusses the role and agency of the architecture exhibition as a mediated space of discursive spatial narratives. The presented curatorial approach draws on the exhibition entitled Past...
-
Imagining inclusive technological futures through participatory board game design The Design Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Adriaan Odendaal, Karla Zavala Barreda
In 2021, we conducted a series of experimental participatory design workshops that brought diverse groups of participants together to create a board game. The purpose of this project was to use par...
-
Braiding As Research Method: Building Relational Understanding for Fashion Fashion Practice Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Kate Fletcher, Anna Fitzpatrick
This article introduces “braiding” as a process of enquiry for fashion concerned with deepening understanding through writing, dialogue, and participation with others. It sets out a step-wise proce...
-
The media swirl: Politics, audiovisuality, and aesthetics Visual Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Munire Burcak Gezeroglu Christensen
Published in Visual Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
-
Competing through brand style: A systematic approach to explain style strategies in product design The Design Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Shoubhik Dutta Roy, Wricha Mishra
Brands selling consumer products are known to strategically use a distinct and consistent style or design language across their portfolios, in order to communicate their brand identities and differ...
-
Urban research in film using walking tours and psychogeographic approaches Visual Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Aled Singleton
This article investigates urban change, making films from research approaches which use ethnographic walking interviews, public walking tours and psychogeographic techniques. The case study focuses...
-
Disruptions, technologically convergent factors and creative activities: defining and delineating musical stuff Digital Creativity Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Marcello Messina, Damián Keller, Brendah Freitas, Ivan Simurra, Carlos Gómez, Luzilei Aliel
Ubiquitous music (ubimus) frameworks imply a flexible approach to the design, implementation and deployment of networked resources, featuring characteristics that challenge current conceptual groun...
-
Coherent visual design through attribute-specific feedback: a hybrid approach to intelligent design agents Digital Creativity Pub Date : 2024-01-07 Seoyeon Jang, Yunwoo Jeong, Heekyoung Jung, Tek-Jin Nam
The scope of visual design is expanding to promote products and services across digital communication platforms, but support for coherent design with style guides seems limited. Based on the litera...
-
Making sense of methods and approaches to user involvement, part 2 The Design Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Sampsa Hyysalo, Mikael Johnson
The new millennium has marked a dramatic proliferation in the ways by which users are involved in various product, service, space and systems development activities. Particularly digital services a...
-
Opening Spaces Design as Landscape Architecture The Design Journal Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Laleh Dehghanifarsani, Mohammad Reza Khalilnezhad, Majid Amani-Beni
Published in The Design Journal: An International Journal for All Aspects of Design (Ahead of Print, 2023)
-
Can designers take the driver’s seat? A new human-centered process to design with data and machine learning The Design Journal Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Sara Colombo, Camilla Costa
Machine Learning (ML) is increasingly becoming a crucial asset across diverse industries. However, designers lack human-centered processes to envision and develop innovative solutions enabled by ML...
-
Analysis of the visual cognition form on the digital exhibit labels to improve user experience: A case study of interpretative exhibitions in museums The Design Journal Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Hesen Li, Yuxin Liu, Xingda Zang, Shuyi Wang, Liyan Bu
Digital devices are increasingly popular in museums; they introduce audiences to new user experiences. The impact of the visual cognition form of digital exhibit labels on user experience in museum...
-
Populist influences on design: Mediation of a new designer profile in Turkish advertising discourse The Design Journal Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Emrah Özturan
Aiming to illustrate the populist influences on design mediation, this paper explores the characteristics of a new and legitimate designer profile, persona, or myth recently constructed within the ...