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Stitching Bodies
DESCRIPTION
Costume is a structure of many factors. It has components found in
works of art: it has form colour, and texture, it is symbolic, it serves
an important function in ritual and superstition, and it also
communicates. Costume can offer protection against the elements
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INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE: Studio Practice 1+2 DEVS 5201
Duration 8 Weeks
COURSE AIM
• To interrogate a theoretical proposition in respect of materiality.
Research and analyse contextual issues and design precedents
• A demonstration of the understanding of fashion and the body
in relation to identity / commodity and display. Consider the
display of an object in relation to its context.
• To encourage the production of considered and skilful drawings
and models
• Throughout the programme to develop a spatial language that
integrates material, environmental, functional and conceptual
concerns.
• Imaginatively and effectively present the display of an object at
a 1:1 scale
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You must have a solid theoretical basis to your final design. You will
achieve this through theoretical readings and visual research.
Present to the class at least one article that you have read and
explain how it, has informed your ideas. Collect visual data by
ransacking magazines and books etc. For images of installation art,
fashion, sculpture, lighting, furniture design.....
And
Suggested DESIGNERS:
Vivien Westwood
Jean Paul Gaultier
Maison Margiela
Junya Watanabe
Bernhard Willhelm
Hussein Chalayan
This document will address the formal issues of the project. You can
be as imaginative as you like.
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READING LIST:
Norman Bryson, Michael Ann Holly, Keith Moxey, Ed. (1994). Visual
culture: images and interpretations, Hanover, NH: University Press
of New England.
Beatriz Colomina, Ed. (1992). Sexuality and space, New York, N.Y.:
Princeton Architectural Press.
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