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Book SynopsisKatherine 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).
Trade ReviewThis 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 *
Crafting Anatomies is a welcome addition to the discourse surrounding the relationship between skin, body and fashion. The editors have successfully brought together an interesting variety of different voices in order to form a stimulating and satisfying bridge between the archive and future technologies. * Lesley Millar, University of the Creative Arts, UK *
Table of ContentsList 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
