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Using wool’s agency to design and make felted artefacts (2019)

Bilge Merve Aktaş
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This exposition presents an explorative project that examines employing material as a reference point for designing and making an artefact. The material’s effects on designing and making have been elaborated upon from many angles. This exposition also examines how material affects designing and making processes from the perspective of material agency. This study argues that by observing a material’s behaviour from the perspective of agency, one can genuinely understand what the material does, and accordingly can find ways to collaborate with it in the process of designing and making artefacts. The discussion is articulated through a designer’s project in felting by employing a practice-led research approach that examined the decision-making processes through written reflections and visual documentation. This examination suggests that by including material as a reference point, design and making can reflect the ecology of the material in a way that combines human power with the activeness of the material.
typeresearch exposition
keywordswool, felt making, creative practice, materiality, pattern design, practice-led research, material agency
date31/03/2018
published14/06/2019
last modified14/06/2019
statuspublished
share statusprivate
affiliationAalto University
licenseAll rights reserved
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/453632/453633
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/ruu.453632
published inRUUKKU - Studies in Artistic Research
portal issue10. Catalyses


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