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Enabling (e)motion
University of Borås, Faculty of Textiles, Engineering and Business.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8753-9070
(Freelance choreographer, dancer, educator, somatic movement practitioner and Laban movement analyst.)
2020 (English)In: Dance Articulated, Vol. 6, no 1, p. 25-44Article in journal (Refereed) [Artistic work] Published
Abstract [en]

This article discusses a practical exploration of the ability of a textile to meet with and affect bodies. It builds on the inherent ability of textiles, particularly in the form of a garment, to evoke movements and emotions. This paper suggests a shift in focus of the design of bodily materiality, towards an expression emerging from interactions connecting materiality and performativity. The findings are the result of 2.5 years of exploration, during which four performances, ten workshops, and four exhibitions were performed. The entwined parameters of expressing and informing are applied as a material choreographic thinking, which in this case results in a material choreography of openness, where expressing and informing are essential as entwined design parameters in the design of body-material interactions. The material choreography is developed as a method for addressing somatic experience, with improvements in terms of wellbeing and presence as aesthetic goals, focusing on reducing movements and emotions relating to stress for people suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2020. Vol. 6, no 1, p. 25-44
Keywords [en]
Wearing, material choreography, somatic garments, somaesthetics
National Category
Design Performing Arts Other Health Sciences
Research subject
Textiles and Fashion (Design)
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-23654DOI: 10.5324/DA.V6I1.3637OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hb-23654DiVA, id: diva2:1454855
Available from: 2020-07-20 Created: 2020-07-20 Last updated: 2021-01-26Bibliographically approved
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1. Body movement as material: Designing temporal expressions
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2021 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic) [Artistic work]
Abstract [en]

Movement and temporal qualities have a significant effect on design expressions. However, in the design of dress these are often overlooked, and the static form of a positioned body is considered to be the main driver of design. This work explores the expressions of the body in motion, engaged in the interaction constituted by wearing. Through a practice-led experimental approach, the research presented in this thesis aims to establish strategies for utilising the motion of the body in the context of design development. 

The research has been carried out through multiple series of experiments. Initial series of experiments focused on exploring wearing as an entwined dialogue between body and material that is expressing and informing the motion of the body. This was followed by series of experiments focusing on more particular variables such as body movement principles, material properties, and somatic experiences. Through analysing and implementing movement as a design material the work suggests an alternative type of form-thinking and form-giving where materiality together with the body movement extends garments into a temporal expression.

The result suggests an alternative model consisting of methods, concepts, and variables for design for designing temporal expressions wherein dress is defined as a temporal form and designed as a system of possible movements and ways in which a wearer can interact with a garment. Within this model, body movement is under-stood as a material and the body is viewed as a temporal structure and a mechanism for changes in the design. Overall, temporal expressions, or temporal form suggest acts of wearing and the somatic presence of the body as foundations in body-based expressions of equal importance as worn material. In particular, the design examples suggest another use of the joints of the body – the crucial points that enable move-ment – which were the main design material for temporal expressions.

The methods and thinking proposed in this thesis may be beneficial for multiple fields of art and design that use the body’s motion as design material extending the findings from the origins of dress.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Borås: Högskolan i Borås, 2021
Series
University of Borås studies in artistic research ; 36
Keywords
Design, body, body as material, fashion design, performing arts, temporal form, practice-led research, design methods, motion design
National Category
Design
Research subject
Textiles and Fashion (Design)
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-24427 (URN)978-91-89271-14-2 (ISBN)978-91-89271-15-9 (ISBN)
Public defence
2021-02-25, Zoom, 13:00 (English)
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Available from: 2021-01-19 Created: 2020-12-16 Last updated: 2024-09-09Bibliographically approved

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