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Wellbeing and smart textiles: Reflecting on collaborative practices and the design process
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posted on 2019-04-01, 12:31 authored by Amanda Briggs-Goode, Martha Glazzard, Sarah Walker, Sarah Kettley, Tincuta HeinzelTincuta Heinzel, Rachel LucasThis paper reports on an inter-disciplinary, EPSRC funded research project, “An Internet
of Soft Things” (IoSofT) which seeks to bring soft
surfaces, smart textiles and wearable technologies to
join the Internet of Things debate. The project involves
researchers from academic disciplines: design, computing and mental health in collaboration with a project
partner, the Nottinghamshire network of the mental
health charity, Mind. This paper will reflect upon the
research project and specifically the approach the
authors have taken to collaborative textile practice and
how this has impacted upon the design process. This
project was conducted through a number of practical
workshop activities with Mind service user groups. The
workshops focused upon the crafting of personalized
textile objects with soft switches and various output
and also recorded the clients’ descriptions of their sense of ownership, awareness of their own and others’ emotions and behaviours. The workshops included the researchers’
reflections and observations to enable further understanding
of how this community invests meaning in material things and
modes of expressive output. The aim of the research project
is to use textile craft practice and smart materials alongside
therapeutic approaches to contribute to the development of a
wellbeing and mental health toolkit to support future client work
for Mind
Funding
The work was supported by a Research-In-The-Wild grant from the EPSRC [grant number EP/L023601/1] and was also supported by the Nottinghamshire Mind Network.
History
School
- The Arts, English and Drama
Department
- Arts
Published in
Journal of Textile Design Research and PracticeVolume
4Issue
1Pages
63 - 83Citation
BRIGGS-GOODE, A. ... et al., 2016. Wellbeing and smart textiles: Reflecting on collaborative practices and the design process. Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice, 4(1), pp. 63 - 83.Publisher
© Taylor and FrancisVersion
- VoR (Version of Record)
Publisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2016-12-12Notes
This paper is in closed access.ISSN
2051-1787eISSN
2051-1795Publisher version
Language
- en