Language Lace: thinking and speaking through material making

Heffer, C

Language Lace: thinking and speaking through material making

Heffer, C

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Publisher:: POPCAANZ
Publication Type:: Conference Proceeding
Citation:: Conference Proceedings 2017, 2017, pp. 114 - 126
Issue Date:: 2017

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dc.contributor.author	Heffer, C https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5388-9956	en_US
dc.date	2017-07-10	en_US
dc.date.issued	2017	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Conference Proceedings 2017, 2017, pp. 114 - 126	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	978-0-473-41892-2	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/127198
dc.description.abstract	Over the last decade interdisciplinary engagement with lace has opened up an emerging space for designers to explore new materials and technologies that question conventional forms of textile making and meaning. The focus of this article is to present contemporary approaches to lacemaking as a creative exploratory response to a local environment. The article will present a textile installation created for the Museum Central de Textile in Lódź, Poland in 2013. Here historical embroidered laces known as punto en aire (translation: ‘stitches in the air’) will be re- imagined as a modern-day place marker. Philosophies of striated and smooth space (Deleuze & Guattari 1988) will explore metaphor through the relationship between language and material structures as a means to move beyond the surface reading of a textile. This article seeks to find original research methodologies for place making in textiles and in doing so present an expanded view of the field.	en_US
dc.publisher	POPCAANZ	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Conference Proceedings 2017	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	8th Annual Conference Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (PopCAANZ)	en_US
dc.title	Language Lace: thinking and speaking through material making	en_US
dc.type	Conference Proceeding
utslib.location.activity	Wellington, New Zealand	en_US
utslib.for	1203 Design Practice and Management	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building/School of Design
utslib.copyright.status	open_access
pubs.consider-herdc	true	en_US
pubs.finish-date	2017-07-11	en_US
pubs.publication-status	Published online	en_US
pubs.start-date	2017-07-10	en_US

Abstract:

Over the last decade interdisciplinary engagement with lace has opened up an emerging space for designers to explore new materials and technologies that question conventional forms of textile making and meaning. The focus of this article is to present contemporary approaches to lacemaking as a creative exploratory response to a local environment. The article will present a textile installation created for the Museum Central de Textile in Lódź, Poland in 2013. Here historical embroidered laces known as punto en aire (translation: ‘stitches in the air’) will be re- imagined as a modern-day place marker. Philosophies of striated and smooth space (Deleuze & Guattari 1988) will explore metaphor through the relationship between language and material structures as a means to move beyond the surface reading of a textile. This article seeks to find original research methodologies for place making in textiles and in doing so present an expanded view of the field.

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