INTERROGATING
FASHION brings together a wide-ranging group of academics,
artists, designers, scientists and technologists to interrogate and
challenge existing practices and processes in fashion and
clothing.
Operating as a network cluster,
INTERROGATING FASHION will identify key questions and
develop research projects that will have a genuine impact on the
manufacturing sector, creating new paradigms and opportunities,
which will, by design, be more sustainable.
The cluster will explore
research themes which span the entire spectrum of fashion creation:
from inspiration and concept development, through innovative design
processes and applications of emerging technologies to production
(for example rapid prototyping, 3D body scanning, 3D digital
printing), presentation of fashion in a range of contexts, and
audience engagement with issues raised. Although the scope and
context is large, overlapping themes will focus on key areas where
potential for new paradigms and technology transfer is greatest.
Themes to be developed will be centred around the socio-economic
issues of transience and sustainability in relation to fashion;
design innovation issues in fashion processes and products; and
cultural issues of creating new fashion discourse through modes of
presentation, interaction and display.
There are three overlapping
themes:
INTERROGATING
FASHION is led by PI Sandy
Black,
Professor in Fashion &Textiles,Design & Technology at
London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London and
funded by EPSRC and AHRC.
The cluster operated during 2005
with a series of events culminating in a symposium and an
experimental fashion event, and is now developing further
initiatives. Watch the news page!
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