Dear Colleagues
we have the pleasure to announce our cfp for our panel Fashion Fast
Forward: Transforming Body, Fabric and Media in a Changing World. SIEF
Congress 2019 in Santiago de Compostela/Spain.
We are looking forward to your proposals.
Deadline: 15 October 2018.
https://nomadit.co.uk/sief/sief2019/conferencesuite.php/panels/7211
Fashion Fast Forward: Transforming Body, Fabric and Media in a Changing
World [P+R]
Convenors
Fatma Sagir (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)
Marion Lean (Royal College of Art, London)
Short abstract
Fashion faces challenges in a dramatically changing world. Social,
economic factors and the pace of change in new media and technology
development are forcing bodily practices, design, textile and (social)
fabric into the transformation process. This panel seeks to explore
this complex phenomenon.
Long abstract
With the rise of celebrity culture and fashion and lifestyle blogging
the body is at the centre of attention. Fashion shows have opened to
include bloggers enabling broader audiences beyond professional
designers, luxury consumers and fashion journalists.
The creation of these new actors is one side effect of the accompanying
debates on body awareness and diversity, tugging along discussions
about bodily practices in digital culture as much as in "real life".
New media technology changed the way the body and self is presented
through digital alterations of images, but it also gave way to
innovative approaches towards creating textiles and designs. Novel
materials and wearable technology applications create further
possibility to recreate the body and its interpretations presented not
only as imagery, but abstract data visualisations. Sharing and
competing using data representations has potential to influence
positive changes in health but also marginalises users to digital
selves, also seen through use of online personas on social media
platforms.
As the body, becoming a status symbol in itself, is presented in new
dimensions, it is the designers turn to disrupt/appropriate innovation
using new, functional smart materials as well as traditional fabrics
and techniques and their cultural narratives to create new designs
mirroring these changes. In doing so, they face challenges from serving
questions of health, sustainability, economic and gender justice as
much as aesthetics and design innovation.
This panel seeks to explore these challenges and transformations from a
variety of perspectives such as new materialism and its practices,
among others.
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Dr Fatma Sagir
Cultural Anthropology
Institut für Kulturanthropologie/
Europäische Ethnologie
Maximilianstr. 15
79100 Freiburg i.Br.
Tel +49 761 203 3357
http://www.kaee.uni-freiburg.de/personen/wimi/sagir
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