Maps of Dress Measurement Final Dress Measurement What is the best installation strategy for my project? In order to show all my swatches nicely, I will present them on a large piece of gauze and hang the gauze on the ceiling to let it fall on to the floor, so audience can see my […]
How can one test a system? How can one test a system in context? What happens when a system enters a context for which it was not intended? The system I am working on is textile, sustainable and healing. I found out that this system also belongs to slow fashion, yet slow fashion is obviously […]
Analyze your past research practices within fashion design in relation to the reading, and identify research methods that you’re already familiar with. Then identify those research methods discussed in the text that you’re not familiar with and with each one, discuss how you would employ each method in the context of user research. What else […]
What do I want my work to embody? Dose the work currently embody that? “Healing”, is a theme that needs to carry careful thought, reflective sensation, social norms and morals. The material of making a garment, the texture, color, weight, and quality are considered during the design process. I am surprised how do so many […]
10/03/2016 What does materiality mean in relation to context and concept? Can materiality connect concept and user, if so, how? Based on Fletcher’s article “Attentiveness, Materials, and Their Use”, I see materials have strong relations with texture, design, usage, color, pattern, and cultural values. I especially love the summarized sentence: “Have lots of them- […]
A Summary of Textile in Healing System Textile in healing is part of the fashion system that in order to gain the benefit oft treatment from textile. There are tones of industries producing toxic chemicals and pollution to the earth that influence human health. There are a lot of stress and anger in our society. […]
09/17/2016 In my identified fashion system, what interventions do I see as necessary? What places within the system seem appropriate for interventions? According to Meadows idea in the article Places to Intervene in a System, it reminds me of environmental problems, and how supplies and designs are very important in the fashion system. Design makes […]
How does fashion currently respond effectively to meet fundamental human needs? What opportunities do you see for fashion to respond to fundamental human needs holistically? According to Max Neef’s idea of fundamental human needs on Development on Human Needs, I believe fashion is more of in between the needs of subsistence, protection, understanding, affection, […]
Reflective Writing on T-shirt printing Activity The t-shirt printing activity at the Parsons building brought an opportunity of using printing materials to students to interact with a new idea on making and designing objects. It was very exciting to experiencing diverse wood stamps, and played colors with different paints as well as constructing the image […]