Design Materials and Making for Social Change
From Materials We Explore to Materials We Wear
- 328 pages
- English
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Design Materials and Making for Social Change
From Materials We Explore to Materials We Wear
About this book
Design Materials and Making for Social Change spans the two interconnected worlds of the material and the social, at different scales and in different contexts, and explores the value of the knowledge, skills and methods that emerge when design researchers work directly with materials and hold making central to their practice.
Through the social entanglements of addressing material impacts, the contributors to this edited volume examine homelessness, diaspora, migration, the erosion of craft skills and communities, dignity in work and family life, the impacts of colonialism, climate crisis, education, mental health and the shifting complexities in collaborating with and across diverse disciplines and stakeholders. This book celebrates the role of materials and making in design research by demonstrating the diverse and complex interplay between disciplines and the cultures it enables, when in search of alternative futures.
Design Materials and Making for Social Change will be of interest to scholars in materials design, textile design, product design, fashion design, maker culture, systemic design, social design, design for sustainability and circular design.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Endorsements
- Half Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 From food waste to circular materials for design: Experimenting with matter from unconventional origins
- 2 Multimorphic textiles: prototyping sustainability and circular systems
- 3 Hands-on/hands-off: On proximities to materials and systems in design research
- 4 Sensory prosthetics: Materials-led and user-centred research for more inclusive prosthetic limbs
- 5 Decolonising materials: The story of Govindgarh village
- 6 NTU X Emmanuel House: Developing a responsible design practice with fashion students and service users
- 7 Sewing Box for the Future: Facilitating participatory fashion experiences to influence change
- 8 Re-creation and recreation: Playful sustainable fashion textile projects with school children
- 9 Fashion activism and design for social change – the Making for Change: Waltham Forest project
- 10 Decolonising design perspectives: Steps towards more inclusive circular economies
- 11 Making for our time: A journey told through the dress as catalyst for change
- Index