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Materialness: expressive qualities of a physical material in textile design creativity

conference contribution
posted on 2011-10-24, 13:48 authored by Nithikul Nimkulrat
Although a physical material is a key component in textile design creativity, textile designers rarely articulate how a material is crucial for their creation. For this reason, experiential knowledge of the relationship between textile materials and the creative processes remain personal and unable to be shared with others. This paper explores the influence of the expressive qualities of a physical material on the experience of a textile designer during the process of creation. The exploration utilized a practice-led approach, i.e. the researcher adopts the role of a practitioner, creating artifacts and exhibitions, and taking them into research as case studies. The materialness conception this study offers shows that the physicality of a material has the expressive potential to inform the maker and viewers how to interpret the artifacts. This conception can be useful for textile pedagogy and designers, both in textile and in other craft design fields.

History

School

  • The Arts, English and Drama

Department

  • Arts

Citation

NIMKULRAT, N., 2009. Materialness: expressive qualities of a physical material in textile design creativity. Proceedings of International Association of Societies of Design Research, Seoul, South Korea, 18-22 October.

Publisher

© Korean Society of Design Science

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

Publication date

2009

Notes

This conference paper is Closed Access. It is also available at: http://www.iasdr2009.org/ap/index.html

ISBN

9788996319405

Language

  • en