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Materialising Imaginative Futures: How can the soft logics of constructed textiles explore the interaction of trend forecasting and speculative design to stimulate imaginings of the future? Alex Simmonds 16395684 223.453 Textile Design Research and Development

Trend Forecasting Trend Graphs Trickle Up, Down and Across Trend Networks Tipping Point and Flat Line Fig. 1 Drawing interpretations of hierarchal, collaborative and distributive network systems

The Diffusion of Innovation Curve Fig. 2 Clay explorations of drawings Creating three dimensional shapes Tipping Point, S Curve and Flat Line

Speculative Design Fig. 3 Fig. 5 Dunne and Raby, Many Worlds Working Group (MWWG) Fig. 4 Fig. 6 Nikolaus Gansterer, Drawing a Hypothesis

In-Between

Imagining Futures FutureTense: ‘Consumers, anxiety-ridden by simultaneous social, economical, political and ethical chaos, fj nd themselves beyond their ability to Workbook sketch exploring graphs, layering and the direction of the future cope with today or imagine tomorrow.’ - Faith Popcorn’s Brain Reserve. “FutureTense”. Faith Popcorn’s Brain Reserve, https://faithpopcorn.com/trendbank/futuretense/, N.d ‘Because the future is unwritten it is therefore plural’ ‘Our collective ability to realise a positive future is dependent on our collective ability to imagine it’ Fig. 7: Nikolaus Gansterer, Tracing (In)Tangibles - Candy, Stuart. “Whose Future is This?: Stuart Candy at TEDxChristchurch”. YouTube, uploaded by TEDx Talks, 27 Jan 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxgVxu2mdZI

Constructed Textile Structures Felt - Bonding of loose fj bres Weave - continuous warp intercepted with changing weft Knit - continuous looping thread that creates stretch Knot - strong root like structure that holds weight

Soft Logics Thinking ‘What if the poetics of cloth were composed of “soft logics”, modes of thought that twist and Exploring structures that hold shapes, polyester cord lysød 7& hand knit stitch ten.8 turn and stretch and fold?’ - Barnett, P. “Folds, Fragments and Surfaces: Towards a Poetic Cloth”. Textures of Memory; The Poetics of Cloth, 1999 Exploration of draping and changing structures, Sample of mixing yarn fj bres to examine different material properties when stretched. jerry cotton & hand knit stitch ten.8 wool roving, mohair/wool boucle, jerry cotton, linen/cotton, hand knit stitch. ten.8

Knit Sampling Fig, 8 Cecile Feilchenfeldt Key Words: - layering - tension - saturation - curves - stretch - fold - material properties - malleable Fig. 9 Phoebe Kime

Knit & Clay Fig. 10 Ron Nagle Fig. 11 Laura Newton

Illustration List: Fig. 1: Untitled . Fads vs Trends: How Brands Tell the Difference, https://insigniadotblog.wordpress.com/2017/04/17/fads-vs-trends-how-brands-tell-the- difference/ Fig. 2: Ryan, Bryce. Gross, Neal. The Diffusion of Innovation Curve . The Trend Forecasters Handbook, King Publishing, 2010, pp. 19 Fig. 3: Untitled . https://futurefemmes.tumblr.com/post/83625138867/luiza-prado-speculative-and-critical-design Fig. 4: Candy, Stuart. Cone of Possibility Space . The Futures of Everyday Life: Politics and the Design of Experimental Scenarios, 2010, pp. 31 Fig. 5: Dunne, Anthony and Raby, Fiona. Many Worlds Working Group (MWWG), 2017, http://dunneandraby.co.uk/content/projects/863/0 Fig. 6: Gansterer, Nikolaus.Drawing a Hypothesis. 2011, http://www.gansterer.org/drawing-a-hypothesis/?n=10 Fig. 7: Gansterer, Nikolaus. Tracing (In)Tangibles . 2019, http://www.gansterer.org/tracing-in-tangibles/?n=42 Fig. 8: Feilchenfeldt, Cecile. http://www.cecilefeilchenfeldt.com Fig. 9: Kime, Phoebe. Fannying around at the back of Church . 2015, http://phoebekime.com/lookbook.html#_ Fig. 10: Nagle, Ron. Monty Carlos , 2014, mixed media,http://ronnagle.net/2014/monty-carlos-2014-mixed-media-4-x-3-625-x-4-25-in/ Fig. 11: Newton, Laura. Masters Collection SMA . 2017, https://1granary.com/designers-3/schools/central-saint-martins/masters-laura-newton/