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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 Trend Networks

Drawing interpretations of hierarchal, collaborative and distributive network systems Trickle Up, Down and Across Tipping Point and Flat Line

• Fig. 1

The Diffusion of Innovation Curve

Tipping Point, S Curve and Flat Line Creating three dimensional shapes Clay explorations of drawings

• Fig. 2

Speculative Design

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

In-Between

Imagining Futures

FutureTense:

‘Consumers, anxiety-ridden by simultaneous social, economical, political and ethical chaos, fjnd themselves beyond their ability to 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’

• 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

• Fig. 7: Nikolaus Gansterer, Tracing (In)Tangibles

Workbook sketch exploring graphs, layering and the direction of the future

Constructed Textile Structures

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

Soft Logics Thinking

‘What if the poetics of cloth were composed of “soft logics”, modes of thought that twist and 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, jerry cotton & hand knit stitch ten.8 Exploring structures that hold shapes, polyester cord lysød 7& hand knit stitch ten.8 Sample of mixing yarn fjbres to examine different material properties when stretched. wool roving, mohair/wool boucle, jerry cotton, linen/cotton, hand knit stitch. ten.8

Knit Sampling

Key Words:

• layering
• tension
• saturation
• curves
• stretch
• fold
• material properties
• malleable

Fig, 8 Cecile Feilchenfeldt

• Fig. 9 Phoebe Kime

Knit & Clay

• Fig. 11 Laura Newton
• Fig. 10 Ron Nagle

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/