Fashion as an embodied practice
My disciplinary lens of fashion has been filtered through an embodied practice to understand the structuring influences on the body and how bodies acquire meaning in a particular context. In view of my research's embodied perspective, the entanglements of 'making' cultivate an understanding of how to act through “our own two hands” (body mapper BM19-F-N). Accordingly, I offer a different perspective to Findeli (2001), in which he claims that acting is more significant than making.
Making is at the heart of building better futures, as it is the site of social praxis and repair. Creative actions of change via movement and material participation produce alternatives. This requires creative actions informed by physical, corporeal, embodied, and embedded processes that lead us to question:
What can tomorrow’s future designers be making?
Boyer (2022, p237)
Boyer, Britta (2022). Blue Alchemy. Loughborough University. Media. https://doi.org/10.17028/rd.lboro.21065935.v2
