Crafting Anatomies

Katherine Townsend is Associate Professor of Fashion and Textile Crafts at Nottingham Trent University, UK, and co-editor of the Craft Research journal. Rhian Solomon is a Visual Artist questioning materialities of the human body through socially engaged arts practice. Her work draws parallels between skin and cloth, the body and dress to inspire future design innovation. Amanda Briggs-Goode is Head of Department for Fashion, Textiles and Knitwear Design and Professor of Textiles at Nottingham Trent University, UK, and author of several books including Textile Design (2013).

List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: Crafting Anatomies - Katherine Townsend, Rhian Solomon, and Amanda Briggs-Goode

I. The Archived Body edited by Amanda Briggs-Goode
2. The Archived Lace Body: Contemporary artist designer responses - Amanda Briggs-Goode and Gail Baxter
3. Disarmed: Lasting impressions - Jo Cope and Johannes Reponen
4. Dis-Comforting, Pioneering, and Re-Materializing: Crafting understanding of older men’s experiences of ageing through their personal archives - Ania Sadkowska
5. The Electric Corset and Other Future Histories - Katherine Townsend, Sarah Kettley, and Sarah Walker

II. The Body in Dialogue edited by Rhian Solomon
6. Fashion and Participation in Hands of X - Andrew Cook and Graham Pullin
7. Tissue Engineered Textiles: Craft’s place in the laboratory - Amy Congdon, Lucy Di Silvio, and Carole Collet
8. Mind-Body-Garment-Cloth - Holly McQuillan and Timo Rissanen
9. Empowerment and Self-Care: Designing for the female body - Giulia Tomasello and Teresa Almeida

III. The Fabricated Body edited by Katherine Townsend
10. Our Own Skin: The development of 3D printed footwear inspired by human skin - Manolis Papastavrou, Liz Ciokajlo, and Rhian Solomon
11. Material Robotics: Shaping the sensitive Interface - Amy Winters
12. The Genetics Gym - Adam Peacock
13. The Body as Factory: A post-productivist fashion practice through film - Lara Torres

Discussion
14. On Fashioning Anatomy - Joanne Entwistle and Katherine Townsend

Index