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- Bågander, Linnea
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Wear-thinking : enabling (e)motion
- 2019
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper suggests shifting the focus from a visual aesthetic of the body to an aesthetics emerging form the experience of wearing. Historically the aesthetics of wearing has been mainly concerned with visual aspects of body; how dress looks on you/make your body look rather than how it feels and what it does with you. Building further on the notion somatic garment as introduced by Sally E Dean (2011) and somatic style as defined by Shusterman (2012) the project addresses the experience of wearing and its effect on our emotional state and as bodily aesthetics. It is a practical exploration contributing to a theoretical discussion. The findings result from an interdisciplinary study intersecting fashion design and choreography, explored through interactive installations and performances developed over the course of 2 years. In 4 performances, 4 workshops and 3 exhibitions nationally and internationally the tactile and informing potential of wearing has been investigated. The results suggest a particular kind of wear-thinking that affects the body aesthetics through how it imposes movement patterns, positioning, tempo and emotions and through this it affects not only the emotional state of mind body also the appearance of the body. In the study, movements that create well-being, presence and relaxation was enabled with help of the interactive installation.Examples:Interactive form exhibited at festival:https://youtu.be/enaPeIRiELUPerformance: https://youtu.be/9SHC6zRA6TA
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- Wänström Lindh, Ulrika
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Light shapes spaces : experience of distribution of light and visual spatial boundaries
- 2012
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Light enables us to experience space. The distribution of light is vital for spatial experience but has not been the main focus of previous research on lighting. The lighting designer’s professional knowledge is to a great extent experience-based and tacit. With design practice as the point of departure, this thesis aims to explore spatiality and enclosure in relation to the distribution of light – with the intention of increasing subjects’ understanding of what can be regarded as a space, and to show how spaces can be shaped by the distribution of light. By focusing on users’ experiences and interpretations, relationships between the distribution of light and perceived spatial dimensions and experienced spatial atmosphere have been investigated. The main contribution of this thesis is to widen the base of knowledge that lighting designers, architects and customers can use as a common reference. This thesis is based on three studies: the Scale Model Study, the Auditorium Study and the Church Park Study. The thesis includes concept- and method development. The mixed methodologies comprise a range from introspective phenomenological observations to deep interviews and questionnaires. The experimental setups have also shifted from scale models to real-life interior and exterior settings. Consequently, a quantitative approach has complemented the mainly qualitative approach. Through artistically based research, patterns and relationships are dealt with in complex real spaces. The findings of these studies lead to a discussion of when, why and how patterns of brightness and darkness influence spatial perceptions of dimensions. The findings also show that brightness not only contributes to our experiencing a space as more spacious than it really is, but in certain situations brightness can actually have the reverse effect. Furthermore, darkness can contribute to a spacious impression, which has hardly been discussed in previous research. What subjects regard as a space may shift between the clearly defined physical space and the perceived space, which include light zones. Light zones can create a sense of inclusion or exclusion for subjects, which affects their sense of community and their feeling of safety. Light topography, e.g. the height of luminaire positions, as well as light direction influence the way we experience the private and the public. Enclosure can, if related to visible spatial boundaries, facilitate reassurance and safety.
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- Bågander, Linnea
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INSIDE/OUTSIDE – Landscape
- 2019
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Annan publikation (utställning/event) (refereegranskat)abstract
- The interactive textile sculpture INSIDE/OUTSIDE questions the borders of the body through material form and movement. The form suggest and instructs the choreography and becomes a co-choreographer pushing the narrative further and opening up for interaction between bodies through its materiality. Exhibited at Skövde Art museum, 17 jan - 3 march 2019.
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- Femenias, Paula, 1966, et al.
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Earthy textiles. Experiences from a joint teaching encounter between textile design and architecture
- 2017
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Ingår i: Cumulus REDO Conference Proceedings Design School Kolding 30 May - 2 June 2017. - 9788793416154 ; , s. 236-251
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper presents experiences from a two-day teaching workshop where first year students in architecture meet with first year students in textile design for an assignment on building structures with textile, soil and plants designing for indoor gardening with the aim of inspiring for more sustainable lifestyles. The background is a research project on textile architecture with the objective of exploring this new field and to establish a platform for long-term collaboration between the disciplines of architecture and textile design. The paper addresses pedagogical challenges in the meeting between first-years students of different disciplines and traditions, but also in the meeting between research and undergraduate teaching. The students produced creative results but had difficulties in exploring the full complexity of the task. An evaluative discussion is based on observations, photo documentation, notes during group discussions, follow-up questionnaires among the students and reflections among involved researchers.
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I.N.S.E.C.T. Wall Twin : INTERSPECIES EXPLORATION BY BIO-DIGITALMANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES
- 2022
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Konstnärligt arbete (utställning/event)abstract
- In August 2022, researchers in the fields of design, art, engineering and anthropology got together for three weeks to focus their full attention on their little animal companions, insects. An INterSpecies Exploration by biodigital Craft and manufacturing Technologies I.N.S.E.C.T. Summer Camp featured “designing for & being with” themed workshops and co-creative events, formed by a core team of four people to contribute to and expand the current discourse around multispecies design and ethnography. The I.N.S.E.C.T. approach to multispecies design questions combines technical biodesign research aiming at designing for all living organisms, not only humans, with co-creative and embodied ways of exploring the being with all other living species and humans being with one another. This year’s summer camp used an experimental approach in which unique agendas with a shared interest: insects as human’s companions. The title insect, on the other hand, intends to express another layer of meaning: the sense of being an insect (an under-represented although very diverse and abundant animal species) and/or human as equally essential and attention-demanding inquiries. The designing for theme emphasizes and prioritizes the component of human design that allows other living organisms to construct their own environments. In the case of those in need of nesting areas because they were lost due to human activity or because their habitats expanded due to climate change, synthetic methods that combine technology, research, design, and craft can help ecosystems by reconstructing missing ecological niches. Both of these components were discussed during an intensive design & build workshop (An INterSpecies Exploration by biodigital Craft and manufacturing Technologies) which took place at OME, NC Upon Tyne. Nine practitioners were invited to a 9-day intensive workshop to install a façade element for the OME in Newcastle upon Tyne. The native insects were our main stakeholders in setting up the design parameters. The extrusion-based 3D printing of clay and a material-oriented digital design method allowed us to design in scales closer to the architectural boundaries of insect nests. Simultaneously, we used the different porosity and tectonic possibilities of hand-knit crocheting techniques in designing organic non-living architectures. To disentangle the challenges and ecological design questions, we invited our group of practitioners to design and 3d-print an experimental and living material prototype façade for the OME. The clay printer, kiln, and OME lab were made available to us during the workshop. The OME is an experimental building that belongs to the Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment (HBBE) in Newcastle upon Tyne. It is a unique research center that brings together bio-scientists from Northumbria University with architects, designers and engineers from Newcastle University.
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- Kapur, Jyoti, 1973-
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On the Textility of Smell in Spatial Design
- 2020
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The ocular-centric approach predominant in the field of design, particularly textile and spatial design, focuses on visual aesthetics and visually mediated interactions. Whereas the non-visual materialities of a space, such as smells, are ignored in the design process, meaning that interior spaces with homogenously odourless environments lack interactions with the olfactory. However, multi-sensorial experiences are crucial to creating a holistic perception of an environment. The aim of this thesis is to investigate smell as a design material for spatial design. This research has been carried out using experimental design research methods, with the theoretical framework connecting smell as a design material to textiles and spatial and interaction design. Addition, modulation and subtraction of smells through textile surfaces and micro-climatic spatial zones have been investigated. Interactions with smells were explored through different modes of activation and dispersion of smells on two different scales; spatially near to body and far from body. The research findings show that atmospheric parameters play an important role in the detectability of smells, in that air flow carries smells and distributes them in a space. Humidity holds smell molecules in the air, and at higher temperatures smell molecules are extremely volatile and dynamic in their movements. Textiles have demonstrated to be good absorber of smells, and are breathable materials with regard to designing with plants and synthetic micro-encapsulated smells to create an olfactive dimension in spaces.These results have an implication for the design of spatial olfactive diversity and olfactory interactions, in that it is possible to disperse smells that are designed to transition from discrete to ambient, or vice versa. Interior textiles can be designed with the expressions of smells that add an olfactive dimension in addition to colours, patterns, and textures. The research presented in this thesis opens up for further interdisciplinary research with regard to developing the novel material systems proposed in this thesis – smell absorbers, dividers, and reflectors – which are responsive to existing smells and atmospheric parameters. Olfactory interactions have important applications from two perspectives: firstly, in relation to subjective and individual connections to people, places, and events; secondly, with regard to providing information about the near environment that is comprehended through the olfactory, in addition to being perceived by the other senses. Therefore, spatial olfactory interactions are essential to (re)connect human to the environment in which they live and work. These interactions in the real physical world are slow and analogue in nature, in comparison to fast digital lifestyles; smells can improve feelings of social connectedness, improving wellbeing.
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- Kapur, Jyoti, 1973-
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Smells: olfactive dimension in designing textile architecture
- 2017
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Licentiatavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Designing with non-visual attributes challenges ways of representation. This research explores methods for designing with invisible materiality within the research practice, as well as ways of representation through textiles when designing spaces. Exploring textiles and smells within a space, the research program investigates spatial interactions.This research focuses on designing embodied experiences using tangible materials as expressions of smells. Through the spatial installations and performances Sight of smell, Touch of smell, and Smell, space, and body movement, haptics were explored as one of the methods of interaction with smells through textiles.Through the sense of touch, this research also investigates ways of revealing, activating, and disseminating smells within a space. Smells were purposely added through the methods of dyeing, coating, and printing to the textile materials that did not inherently embody any smells, As a result, tactile surfaces create non-visual expressions of smell. Further ideas of research in this area would explore another perspective of designing with smells in spaces. As an example, by designing textiles being smell absorbers, dividers, and re ectors, could compliment the spatial concepts and deals with the already existing smells in a living environment.In this licentiate thesis thinking through the olfactive dimension to design textiles is not only novel for the textile design eld; but also, its proposal for application in the spatial design is quite unique, and o ers a new dimension for spatial design.
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- Zboinska, Malgorzata, 1981, et al.
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Colored skins and vibrant hybrids : Manipulating visual perceptions of depth and form in double-curved architectural surfaces through informed use of color, transparency and light
- 2022
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Ingår i: Color Research and Application. - : Wiley. - 0361-2317 .- 1520-6378.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The past decades of research on color and light yielded vast knowledge supporting their informed use in architectural design. While there currently exists a rich body of knowledge and methods geared to affect the perception of depth and form in tiled, opaque architectural surfaces, not many such methods have been developed for double-curved, transparent, in-mass colored surfaces. The perception of depth and form in these surfaces relies on a complex blend of parameters, such as color combinations, illumination source, angle of viewing, location of shadows and reflections, material thickness and grade of transparency. To determine the visual effects caused by some of these parameters, experiments based on visual observations were carried out involving handcrafted, in-mass colored, undulant architectural surfaces. The insights from the experiments then served to develop four color strategies for architectural surface design harnessing the discovered effects in diverse ways. Through this, the study has sought first to observe and understand the effects of color and light in perceiving undulant surfaces, and second to highlight the potentials of harnessing these effects in the design of expressive architectural elements. The main insight from the study is that informed and deliberate application of color and light yields a wide range of potentially interesting perceptual effects in double-curved architectural surfaces, such as spatial filtering, gradient screening, vibrant massing and animate reshaping. Such effects, applied in an architectural context, can help to fulfill the demand for physical environmental enrichment in the digital era.
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