Intersections: Collaborations in Textile Design Research

Morgan, Laura; Matthews, Janette

doi:10.1080/20511787.2017.1484048

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“…These disciplines find a natural meeting point within textile practice, which tacitly draws on knowledge from each [68]. While it has been noted that engineers and designers rarely meet within commercial settings [52], the need for interdisciplinarity within research and innovation has grown in response to the complexity of current societal challenges [19,25,53]. Within this context, textile design research methodologies have evolved over recent decades to construct bridges between concepts of beauty and utility, aesthetics, and function, which enable the investigation of the imaginative alongside the technical (Philpott 2012), and more latterly toward notions of "quantified design" [25].…”

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Innovative Technologies for Sustainable Textile Coloration, Patterning, and Surface Effects

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Shen

Morgan

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Sustainable Textiles: Production, Processing, Manufacturing &Amp; Chemistry

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The environmental impact of textile dyeing and finishing is of paramount concern in the textile industry. Enzyme and laser processing technologies present attractive alternatives to conventional textile colouration and surface patterning methods. Both technologies have the capability to reduce the impact of manufacturing on the environment by reducing the consumption of chemicals, water and energy, and the subsequent generation of waste. Two emerging textile processing technologies, laser processing and enzyme biotechnology were investigated as a means of applying surface design and colour to materials with a focus on improving the efficiency and sustainability of existing textile design and finishing methods.Through industrial stakeholder engagement and interdisciplinary research involving textile design, fibre and dye chemistry, biotechnology and optical engineering, this design-led project brought together design practice and science with a commercial focus. Each technology was used to modify targeted material properties, finding and exploiting opportunities for the design and finishing of textiles. The work resulted in a catalogue of new colouration and design techniques for both technologies making it possible to achieve: selective surface pattern by differential dyeing, combined three-dimensional and colour finishing and novel colouration of textile materials.The chapter provides a literature review mapping the use of enzyme biotechnology and laser processing technology within textile design and manufacturing to date, identifying current and future opportunities to reduce environmental impacts through their application. The methodological approach, which was interdisciplinary and design-led, will be introduced and the specific design and scientific methods applied will be detailed. Each of the techniques developed will be discussed and examples of the design effects achieved will be presented. And, an indication of the reductions in chemical effluent efficiencies in resource use, and design flexibility in comparison with traditional textile colouration and surface patterning techniques will be given.

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Innovative Technologies for Sustainable Textile Coloration, Patterning, and Surface Effects

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Morgan

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Sustainable Textiles: Production, Processing, Manufacturing &Amp; Chemistry

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“…We presented the Embroidered Inflatables project at the "INTERSECTIONS: Collaborations in Textile Design Research Exhibition" (Morgan et al 2019). The exhibition gave us the opportunity of seeing all the samples as a collection, with the same type of finish and level of importance.…”

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Embroidered Inflatables: Exploring Sample Making in Research through Design

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Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice

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This paper reflects on the experience of sample making to develop interactive materials. Sample making is a way to explore possibilities related to different materials techniques. In recent years design research has put an increasing emphasis on making as a mode of exploration, which in turn has made such exploration an increasingly popular and effective design research approach. However, sample making is a messy and complex process that is hard to document and communicate. To mitigate this, design researchers typically report their journeys from the perspective of their success, retroactively editing out or reducing the accounts of experiments that did not directly contribute to their goal. Although it is a useful way to of contextualizing a design process, it can contribute to a loss of richness and complexity of the work done along the way. Samples can be seen as instantiations of socio-techno systems of production, which means that they can be Bruna Goveia da Rocha is a PhD candidate at the Future Everyday group of the department of Industrial Design (TU/e). Her research is focused on the design process of soft things. She is particularly interested in exploring the combination of digital craftsmanship and emerging technologies, such as inflatables. b.goveia.

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Intersections: Collaborations in Textile Design Research

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Innovative Technologies for Sustainable Textile Coloration, Patterning, and Surface Effects

Innovative Technologies for Sustainable Textile Coloration, Patterning, and Surface Effects

Embroidered Inflatables: Exploring Sample Making in Research through Design

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