Overview

Textile Technology and Design addresses the critical role of the interior at the intersection of design and technology, with a range of interdisciplinary arguments by a wide range of contributors: from design practitioners to researchers and scholars to aerospace engineers. Chapters examine the way in which textiles and technology – while seemingly distinct – continually inform each other through their persistent overlapping of interests, and eventually coalesce in the practice of interior design. Covering all kinds of interiors from domestic (prefabricated kitchens and 3D wallpaper) to extreme (underwater habitats and space stations), it features a variety of critical aspects including pattern and ornament, domestic technologies, craft and the imperfect, gender issues, sound and smart textiles. This book is essential reading for students of textile technology, textile design and interior design.

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Author:   Deborah Schneiderman (The Pratt Institute, USA) ,  Alexa Griffith Winton (Parsons School of Constructed Environments, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 16.90cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.386kg
ISBN:  

9781472523754

ISBN 10:   147252375
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   28 January 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword by Susan Yelavich (Parsons The New School for Design, USA) Introduction, Alexa Griffith Winton (Parsons School of Constructed Environments, USA) and Deborah Schneiderman (Pratt Institute, USA) Part 1 Textile: Pliable Planes, Interior Applications and Fabrications 1 Interstitial Threads: The Body, Textiles and Interiority in Contemporary Interior Design, Alexa Griffith Winton (Parsons School of Constructed Environments, USA) 2 Soft Spaces: From the Textile-Clad Interior to Modern Interior Design, Anca I. Lasc (Pratt Institute, USA) 3 Felt and the Emerging Interior, Helene Renard (Virginia Tech School of Architecture and Design, USA) 4 Tailoring Second and Third Skins, Lois Weinthal (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada) 5 Interview with Carol Bove (Artist, USA) Part 2 Mechanical and Digital Innovation in the Interior Realm 6 Ulterior Motives, Sarah Strauss (Pratt Institute, USA) 7 Topically Embedded: Surface as Graphic Material, Igor Siddiqui (The University of Texas at Austin, USA) 8 Materializing the Digital Realm: Textile of the Modern Age, Jonathon Anderson (University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA) and Laura Schoenthaler (North Carolina State University, USA) 9 Bespoke: Tailoring the Mass-Produced Prefabricated Interior, Deborah Schneiderman (Pratt Institute, USA) 10 Sensorial Space: Responsive Interiors Thru Smart Textiles, Margarita Benitez (Kent State University, USA) 11 Self-actuated Textiles, Interconnectivity and the Design of the Home as a More Sustainable Timescape, Aurélie Mossé (École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, France) 12 Interview with Charlie Morrow (Composer, Sound Artist, Performer and Innovator, USA) Part 3 Extreme Environments and Outer Space 13 Design for Extreme Environments Project [DEEP]: A Case Study of Innovations in Mediating Adverse Conditions on the Human Body, Brian Davies (University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning, USA) 14 Design for Confinement: The Art and Science of Sensory Deprivation in Space, Evan Twyford (Industrial Designer, USA) 15 Fabrics for Space Travel, Evelyne Orndoff (NASA, USA) 16 The Role of Soft Materials in the Design of Extreme Interior Environment for Space Exploration, Larry Toups, Matthew Simon, A. Scott Howe and Robert Howard (NASA, USA) 17 Interview with Charles Camarda (NASA, USA) Bibliography Index

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These authoritative and accessible essays exemplify myriad ways in which textiles are increasingly inter-disciplinary in range and breadth. Together they contribute to the re-shaping and expanding of textiles, not only as a field which functions as an interface between the body and architecture but also as an exciting practice through which the ever-growing territory between human and post-human experiences are articulated. Victoria Mitchell, Norwich University of the Arts, UK The intersections and overlaps between the wrapping, lining and layering of our bodies and the environments that we occupy are explored in this innovative publication. An excellent and diverse range of writers and subject matter has ensured that issues around the 'soft' interior are now placed firmly at the forefront of thinking in this field of design. Graeme Brooker, Middlesex University, UK From cover up to a celebration of wealth, and from a display of conventional culture to cutting-edge experimentation, textiles have been hiding and displaying something for millennia. Whether it be the human body with clothes or the family in a carpeted, upholstered, and draped interior, cloth has been a malleable expression of our attitudes towards ourselves, others, and our environment. This sweeping array of essays traces the history of textiles on bodies and in interiors, and show how new technologies are liberating us to have a whole new relationship to that most flexible and sensual of human artifacts. Aaron Betsky, Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, USA

This adventurous and revelatory book ranges far beyond color, pattern, weave, and fashion to examine the changing definition of textiles. Interior Design These authoritative and accessible essays exemplify myriad ways in which textiles are increasingly inter-disciplinary in range and breadth. Together they contribute to the re-shaping and expanding of textiles, not only as a field which functions as an interface between the body and architecture but also as an exciting practice through which the ever-growing territory between human and post-human experiences are articulated. Victoria Mitchell, Norwich University of the Arts, UK The intersections and overlaps between the wrapping, lining and layering of our bodies and the environments that we occupy are explored in this innovative publication. An excellent and diverse range of writers and subject matter has ensured that issues around the 'soft' interior are now placed firmly at the forefront of thinking in this field of design. Graeme Brooker, Middlesex University, UK From cover up to a celebration of wealth, and from a display of conventional culture to cutting-edge experimentation, textiles have been hiding and displaying something for millennia. Whether it be the human body with clothes or the family in a carpeted, upholstered, and draped interior, cloth has been a malleable expression of our attitudes towards ourselves, others, and our environment. This sweeping array of essays traces the history of textiles on bodies and in interiors, and show how new technologies are liberating us to have a whole new relationship to that most flexible and sensual of human artifacts. Aaron Betsky, Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, USA By concentrating both on innovations in new textile weaving and material techniques, and on extreme situations in which such advances can come to the fore, the editors promote a way of making space and form that elides the distinctions between those two as well as, at times, between inside and outside. -- Aaron Betsky, Taliesin West, USA Architect Magazine

Author Information

Deborah Schneiderman is Associate Professor of interior design in the School of Art & Design at the Pratt Institute, New York, USA, and a registered architect and LEED Accredited Professional. Alexa Griffith Winton is an independent design historian based in New York, where she is also a part time assistant professor at Parsons School of Constructed Environments, New York, USA.

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