Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Dongen, Pauline <<van>>

Titel

A designer's material-aesthetics reflections on fashion and technology

Ist Teil von

• ArtEZ Academia : 23 (Alle Bände)

Ort / Verlag

Arnhem : ArtEZ Press

Erscheinungsjahr

[2019]

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The prevailing understanding of technology tends to focus either on its functional or instrumental value or on its expressive qualities as a matter of representation. Pauline van Dongen argues for the need to reframe the role of technology in fashion, examining how wearables - garments that combine electronics and digital materials with textiles - can become integral to fashion's everyday reality. Her own practice as a fashion designer is informed by the concept of material aesthetics. In this book she explores perspectives as a design researcher engaged in a reflective analysis of processes and outcomes, and discusses work created in the context of her design studio