This document discusses various ways that textiles and fabrics relate to the human body, including for decoration, comfort, protection, and health monitoring. It suggests exploring topics like influencing fashion tastes, modifying the body's shape over time and across cultures, and using textiles for functions like defending the body from bullets or making it sweat and smell less. The document provides advice on planning a textile design project focused on materials innovation that interprets a theme related to the body. It offers starting points for research and possible approaches like decorative textile designs, technical process innovation, or using non-textile materials.

1. body

2. Context
Textile design has a fundamental connection
with the body. This can be the decoration of
the fabrics that make up our garments, the
fabric we sleep in or the fabric we perform in.

3. Context
Sometimes the use of fabric is functional
therefore less decorative but more concerned
with comfort, protection or performance.

4. Context
Do you want your knee to work?

5. Context
More recently there have been advances in
medical textiles so that the textile can become
part of our body and some garments can be
used to monitor our health.

6. Context
How can you stop Bullets?

7. Context
How can you just look fantastic walking down
the street?

8. Context
Do you want to sweat less and smell better?

9. Context
We don’t all want to look the same - do we?

10. Context
Historical and cultural approaches to
transforming the body show that there is a
long history of modifying our shape to suit
current fashions.

11. Context
What influences our tastes and choices today?

12. FMP/Brief
Will body become part of your FMP?
Lucy Orta

13. FMP/Brief
You decide how you wish to interpret your
theme but there is a focus on materials
innovation.
Bertjan Pot

14. FMP/Brief
You may want to produce textile designs for
high street fashion or explore material
applications for health and well-being or
develop new methods of protection. The
spectrum of approaches is vast.

15. FMP/Brief
You need to research your theme and propose
viable conclusions that are supported by
material and process investigations.
Chalayan Hussein

16. Advice
Remember that this project runs until you leave.
Issey MiyakeLeonardo

17. Advice
Planning
http://www.elinorcarucci.com/

18. You need to ensure that you manage your
workload therefore effective planning from
the outset is essential.
Advice

19. Indicative Content
Material manipulation
Wim BothaColors Magazine

20. Advice
Use the workshops to test ideas and
processes. You may not reach fully resolved
technical conclusions but what you do may
inform further study.

21. Indicative Content
Research strategies Andres Serrano

22. Indicative Content
Your designs can be decorative textile designs
(print, weave, etc) for contemporary fashion.
Can you create a new context?

23. Indicative Content
Innovation in technical process
sensate - Tonita AbeytaRobert Stone

24. Advice
Explore material properties and processes
such as bonding, cutting, welding. Don’t just
do what you already know.
Nobuyoshi Araki

25. Advice
You may want to use non textile materials.
Iris van Herpen

26. Some possible starting points
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/body
http://www.booooooom.com/
http://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/
http://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/themes/investigating-
identity/the-body-in-art
http://www.tate.org.uk/search/the%20body
http://psychologytomorrowmagazine.com/the-body-in-fashion-review-
by-tiago-pinto-ribeiro-and-raquel-barbosa/

27. what could your relationship to
body be about?
Remember the first lecture in year one – extending textiles
https://www.slideshare.net/secret/5ekBo8dwalGxw2

30. supreme drop

32. https://www.rt.com/news/442233-china-falling-stars-craze/
https://www.instagram.com/cindychiang88/

35. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBju9Sdh94k

36. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIXUgtNC4Kc

38. what is it to have a body?
what is it to cover it?

39. nicki minaj
Rubens
image?
Botticelli Bosch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpm07-BGJnE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bvLphVWHpo

40. The Dandies Of Sub-Saharan Africa
image?

41. There are so many young
women who tip over into
being a facsimile: they
don't really inhabit their
lives or their bodies.
Susie Orbach, Fat is a
feminist issue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlSFmotba2I

42. image?

43. what is it to inhabit a body?
what is it to design for it?

44. gang tattoos

45. Soundcloud rappers and their face
tattoos

46. We are all mediators,
translators.
Jacques Derrida,
Janelle Monáe - PYNK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaYvlVR_BEc

47. Marie ChouinardMatt Fraser
body image – LGBTQ – disability
Laura Bridgeman and the
Drakes

48. Live art development agency
http://www.thisisliveart.co.uk/
http://www.double-exposures.com/double-
task/
The Famous Lauren Barri Holstein
Oreet Ashery
http://spillfestival.com/

49. http://www.nicolacanavan.com/raising-the-skirt.html
Nicola Canavan

50. Heather Cassils
http://heathercassils.com/

51. Franco B Orlan

52. Stelarc
Aimee Mullins
Matthew Barney for
the Cremaster 3

53. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjI2J2SQ528

54. Valerie Belin

55. The body is not a thing, it is
a situation: it is our grasp
on the world and our
sketch of our project.
Simone de Beauvoir, The
Second Sex
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbZSe6N_BXs

56. The chief function of the body
is to carry the brain around.
Thomas A. Edison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jzDnsjYv9A

57. J D Okhai Ojeikere

58. Guo Fengyi

59. decoration - adornment

61. decoration - adornment
Eliza Bennett Abas Amin

62. skins for Minecraft

63. skins for Second Life

64. Transformers cybernetic stuff

65. Rebecca Horn

66. Transubstantiation.
To describe the change
from bread and wine to
body and blood of Christ
in the Eucharist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk4BbF7B29w&index=61&list=PLolUJHXfIT46mLLYRs1tKcuDp0oLEJWXC

67. Jo Spence
health -
Helen ChadwickKeith Haring

68. My body is my art, and
it's also the tool that I
use to make money.
Sasha Grey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWOyfLBYtuU&list=PLolUJHXfIT46mLLYRs1tKcuDp0oLEJWXC&index=15

69. Leigh Bowery

70. Ryan Trecartin

71. Queer theory

73. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7CTo2-bAA8
FKA Twig

74. Body politic

75. https://bust.com/arts/11990-models-protest-beauty-standards-by-growing-fabulous-armpit-hair.html

76. third wave feminist theory

77. http://www.ufunk.net/en/gadgets/culotte-anti-viol/

78. Gender fluid

81. http://thecuttingclass.com/
structure

82. http://cockyeek.com/projects/kuma-kuna/

83. narrative?

84. Arthur Bispo do Rosário

85. Phyllis Galembo Ghana

86. nick cave sound suit
performance?

87. dance

88. costume?

89. costume?

90. tradition?

91. sport

92. defence

93. defence

94. Aya Tsukioka

95. sleep

96. death

97. From my rotting body,
flowers shall grow and I
am in them and that is
eternity.
Edvard Munch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3MjxWn5W9M&index=9&list=PLolUJHXfIT46mLLYRs1tKcuDp0oLEJWXC

99. music
Cardi B
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTlNMmZKwpA
Jennifer Lopez
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEM2kOrrNJI
Beyoncé:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbMqWXnpXcA
Giggs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f10yTpZzuv4
MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK8mJJJvaes
Earth, Wind & Fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs069dndIYk
Daft Punk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBXv37PFcAQ
Ghost
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyQZ13jobIY
Slipknot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEEasR7hVhA
Dee Lite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etviGf1uWlg
KPop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1scjjbfNsk&index=1&list=PL4QNnZJr8sRNKjKzArmzTBAlNY
BDN2h-J

100. art
Rachel Maclean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxEJJNZLRZM
Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared
https://vimeo.com/27003856
film
hero - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0299977/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
in the mood for love - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118694/