Sketching is at the Industrial Design department of RISD, courtesy of Tellart
(im)material
From product to process- before the 18th century, everything was handmade; the Arts and Crafts movement is the child of mechanization
- patterns: grid, loop, abstraction, representation: relating patterns of knowledge and patterns of fashion
- for example, layering and separates are examples of grid design in fashion
- a different sociological model: Issey Miyake's print-and-cut-out dresses - a different production model, a different relationship to clothes
- her own work: processes of compression, translation, abstraction
- art, politics, fashion, digital futures
Questions
- interesting conversation about corporations - is the cultural change in the new tools we make?
- Eric Von Hippel - corporations will become production and distribution arms, with innovation coming from individual users and smaller groups
