Trying it on: Searching for emotional fit

Katherine Townsend; Ania Sadkowska; Jim Boxall

Trying it on: Searching for emotional fit

Katherine Townsend, Ania Sadkowska, Jim Boxall (Photographer)

School of Art and Design

Research output: Practice-Based and Non-textual Research › Exhibition

Abstract

This short film explores the area of fashion and aging through sequences that communicate the embodied knowledge and sense of agency a group of mature women (55-75) possess through engagement with the materials and processes of fashion. The film is an outcome of co-creative research into designing for the changing aesthetic and physiological needs of older female consumers. Filmed in a series of workshops, photo shoots and ‘trying on’ sessions, it conveys the women’s experience of wearing different garments and textiles and the sense of empowerment this provides when the physical and emotional aspects come together.

Original language	English
Publication status	Accepted/In press - Jun 2017
Event	Everything and Everybody as Material: Beyond Fashion Design Methods - The Swedish School of Textiles, Borås, Sweden Duration: 7 Jun 2017 → 9 Jun 2017 http://everythingeverybodyasmaterial.com/

Bibliographical note

film and artefacts presented at the Everything and Everybody as Material: Beyond Fashion Design Methods, 7-9 June, The Swedish School of Textiles, Borås, Sweden.

2 Conference proceeding
1 Paper
1 Exhibition

Co-designing, co-experiencing, co-authoring: blurring the lines in participatory research
Sadkowska, A., Townsend, K. & Goode, J., Jan 2017.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
Design as a socio-material practice: reflections on the Emotional Fit collective fashion enquiry
Townsend, K., Sadkowska, A., Goode, J., Sissons, J. & Harrigan, K., 2017, Proceedings of Everything and Everybody as Material: Beyond Fashion Design Methods Conference and Exhibition, Swedish School of Textiles, Borås, Sweden, 7-9 June 2017. RMIT University, p. 190-199 10 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding › peer-review
Trying it On
Townsend, K., Sadkowska, A., Sissons, J., Harrigan, K., West, K. & Boxall, J., 13 Sept 2017
Research output: Practice-Based and Non-textual Research › Exhibition

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Trying it on: Searching for emotional fit

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Research output

Co-designing, co-experiencing, co-authoring: blurring the lines in participatory research

Design as a socio-material practice: reflections on the Emotional Fit collective fashion enquiry

Trying it On

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