Julia Valle Noronha, Fashion beyond visual experience

Over the years, the visual dimension of fashion and clothing and how humans ‘imprint’ their culture onto garments has been largely emphasized. This project seeks to challenge this emphasis by exploring a less common lens: that of experience by asking ‘What remains relevant when the visuality of clothing becomes peripherical?’. 

Linnea Bågander, Designing Bodies of Movement

This presentation discusses experimental, practice-based and practice-led approaches to design research, where design examples are developed as ’figures of thought’ (Petersson, 2021) or ’epistemic objects’ (Rheinberger, 2016) that both embody knowledge in themselves and generate knowledge through interpretations of their meaning. The talk focuses on the state and importance of ’not knowing yet’ within a process of research, and on the vagueness through which a result gradually begins to unfold. The processes and examples presented derive from research and collaborations within the field of dance, wherein dress is explored as a performative element, working with movement, materials and bodies, and how they co-exist and create expressions and experiences together.