Dear all
Announcing the Call for Papers for the forthcoming 'First International Symposium for Creative Pattern Cutting'
Location: University of Huddersfield, UK
Date: 6th – 7th February 2013
Deadline for all submitted abstracts is Sunday 1st April 2012.
This symposium will examine creative pattern cutting within contemporary fashion and it aims to provide a platform for pattern cutters, fashion designers, students, and educators to explore the impact and direction
for creative pattern cutting.
Themes:
• What are the cost implications of creative pattern cutting?
• Is the craft of creative pattern cutting ever mastered? Does the pattern cutter ever stop learning?
• Is the knowledge and practical experience of traditional processes and hand skills in creative pattern cutting still relevant in fashion in the context of technological and digital
development?
• How are inconsistency, mistake and spontaneity emphasized in the development of creative patterns?
• Is creative pattern cutting a luxury only practiced in designer led fashion, what place does it have within the high street?
• How can the fashion industry generate ingenious and imaginative pattern cutting at mass market prices?
• What is the role of creative pattern cutting in higher education fashion courses?
• How can the fashion industry promote pattern cutting as a career and give it creative integrity and allure?
• How can practical experiences of traditional and emerging processes in creative pattern cutting be successfully documented and promoted?
• How can the fashion industry and fashion education promote pattern cutting as a career that has real creative integrity and allure?
• In what ways does the creative pattern cutter break rules?
Selected papers will be published in a special edition in The International Journal of Fashion Design, Technology and Education, Volume 6, Issue 2, published in July 2013, guest edited by Kevin Almond.
Important dates:
• Abstract (150 words) and authors’ bio (100 words): 1 April 2012 (Abstract and bio should be submitted to [log in to unmask])
• Notification for acceptance: 1 June 2012
• Full paper (4 - 5000 words) submission: 1 Sept 2012
• Reviewer’s feedback for symposium: 1 Jan 2013
• Early bird registration: 1 June – 1 October 2012
• Registration closes: 18 Jan 2013
• Symposium: 6 and 7 Feb 2013
Hosting University: University of Huddersfield, UK
CALL FOR PAPERS
The First International Symposium
for Creative Pattern Cutting
Creative Cut
Organisers: Kevin Almond and Kathryn Brennand
Please do forward this information to anyone else in your network who may be interested to send an abstract, attend or participate.
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