Design for Moving Bodies

Robinson, T

Design for Moving Bodies

Robinson, T

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Publisher:: Valiz
Publication Type:: Chapter
Citation:: Radical Fashion Exercises A Workbook of Modes and Methods, 2023
Issue Date:: 2023-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Robinson, T https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0209-4771
dc.contributor.editor	Mohajer va Pesaran, D
dc.contributor.editor	Gardner, L
dc.date.accessioned	2023-06-20T23:16:12Z
dc.date.available	2023-06-20T23:16:12Z
dc.date.issued	2023-01-01
dc.identifier.citation	Radical Fashion Exercises A Workbook of Modes and Methods, 2023
dc.identifier.isbn	978-94-93246-19-5
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/170806
dc.description.abstract	The chapter focuses on fashion designing for moving bodies., This activity reflects on the relationship between clothing and the moving body. Its central premise is that acknowledging fashion’s influence on how we feel, shapes how we move. Designing for the moving body shifts the focus in design. It enables a move beyond thinking fashion exclusively in terms of visual appearances and aesthetics. It enables a move beyond thinking about movement in terms of performance and optimization (such as in sportswear, which optimizes qualities like speed and efficiency) and to tune into how movement can also possess many other qualities. For example, movement might be fast or slow, but it could also be furtive or brisk, measured or languid. Move beyond thinking about the aesthetics of movement to instead consider how it feels. The chapter is organized around a set of design steps, that involve using one’s own wardrobe as a prompt or catalyst for designing for the body in movement. This process involves, wardrobe work, and the use of one's own body and critical reflection a catalyst for design and critical reflection on fashion.
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Valiz
dc.relation.ispartof	Radical Fashion Exercises A Workbook of Modes and Methods
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.title	Design for Moving Bodies
dc.type	Chapter
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
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pubs.consider-herdc	false
dc.date.updated	2023-06-20T23:16:10Z
pubs.place-of-publication	Amsterdam
pubs.publication-status	Unpublished
dc.location	Amsterdam

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The chapter focuses on fashion designing for moving bodies., This activity reflects on the relationship between clothing and the moving body. Its central premise is that acknowledging fashion’s influence on how we feel, shapes how we move. Designing for the moving body shifts the focus in design. It enables a move beyond thinking fashion exclusively in terms of visual appearances and aesthetics. It enables a move beyond thinking about movement in terms of performance and optimization (such as in sportswear, which optimizes qualities like speed and efficiency) and to tune into how movement can also possess many other qualities. For example, movement might be fast or slow, but it could also be furtive or brisk, measured or languid. Move beyond thinking about the aesthetics of movement to instead consider how it feels. The chapter is organized around a set of design steps, that involve using one’s own wardrobe as a prompt or catalyst for designing for the body in movement. This process involves, wardrobe work, and the use of one's own body and critical reflection a catalyst for design and critical reflection on fashion.

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