UAL VP/XR for textiles and dress: Infrastructural development

伦敦艺术大学的伦敦时装学院（UAL LCF）将设在新的东岸校区（2023年）。UAL在East Bank将通过世界领先的大学，文化机构和当地社区之间的新型合作，成为研究，创新，创造力和学习的新动力的一部分。UAL的新校园将提供专业的VP/XR实验室设施，用于合作研究，行业合作研发，PGR研究和ECR机会。UAL，通过其时尚纺织品和技术学院（FTTI）在东岸，将创造创新的能力，跨学科，实践为主导的研究在VP/XR纺织品和服装。为了解决这个专业领域，大学将召集一个独特的范围内的技术工艺和数字专业知识在UAL的组成学院，研究所和研究中心，还包括创意计算研究所（CCI），时装策展中心、表演服装实验室、时装与创新机构（FIA）和伦敦传播学院（LCC）。专业的VP/XR实验室将推动一个雄心勃勃的研究议程，并建立能力，以满足广泛的行业需求，支持英国创意和文化经济的显著增长潜力。UAL VP/XR设施将：提供原型设计机会，通过合作和技能开发，确定将建立HEI和行业能力的纺织品和服装研究。扩展当前的研究专业知识，定义要质疑的流程，并确保技术工艺和数字实践。通过提供PGR和新颖的PG课程设计，在技术工艺和数字技能方面发展未来的能力。连接到新一代的学生，嵌入UAL在实际应用和行业准备研究方面的声誉。使用集成支持建立供应，为现有的UAL技术团队提供培训。让人们能够以数字方式访问历史纺织品和服装档案，并在这些资产进入屏幕和实时空间时将其货币化的机会尚未实现。V&A和RSC等文化机构正在寻求探索新的机会，通过以下方式创建新颖的内容并将现有资产货币化：虚拟展示传统纺织品和服装，为游客提供新体验（例如，启用虚拟“试穿”服装和服装）遗产/和档案-混合现场表演中的知情服装角色在沉浸式和现场表演中对移动服装身体的美学增强环境、游戏、屏幕和更广泛的文化和商业背景数字档案服装和服装作为虚拟世界中的一种个人表达形式创建基于纺织品和服装的不可替代代币（NFT）。对这些可能性的探索将为创意和文化部门创造新市场，推动技能建设，为他们服务。然而，英国在这一领域以研究为主导的能力和技能是有限的，阻碍了传统相关实践和学科之外的访问和先进发展，UAL VP/XR设施将解决这一问题。

University of the Arts London's London College of Fashion (UAL LCF) will be housed at the new East Bank campus (2023). UAL at East Bank will form part of a new powerhouse for research, innovation, creativity and learning through a novel collaboration between world-leading universities, cultural bodies, and local communities.UAL's new campus will provide a specialist VP/XR Lab facility for collaborative research, industry-partnered R&D, PGR study, and ECR opportunities. UAL, via its Fashion Textiles and Technology Institute (FTTI) at East Bank, will create capacity for innovative, transdisciplinary, practice-led research in VP/XR textiles and dress.To address this specialist field, the university will convene a unique range of technical craft and digital expertise across UAL's constituent Colleges, Institutes and Research Centres, also including the Creative Computing Institute (CCI), the Centre of Fashion Curation, the Performing Dress Lab, the Fashion and Innovation Agency (FIA), and the London College of Communication (LCC). The specialist VP/XR laboratory will drive forward an ambitious research agenda, and build capacity to meet wide ranging sector needs, supporting significant growth potential for the UK's creative and cultural economy. UAL VP/XR facilities will: Provide prototyping opportunities, to identify textiles and dress research that will build HEI and industry capability through collaboration and skills development.Expand current research expertise, defining processes to question, and ensure technical craft and digital practices.Grow future capacity through PGR provision and novel PG course design, in technical craft and digital skills. Connect to a new generation of students, embedding UAL's reputation for practical application and industry-ready study.Establish provision using integrated support, with training provided for existing UAL technical teams. The opportunity to enable digital access to historical textile and dress archives, and potentially monetise these assets as they move into screen and real-time spaces is as yet unrealised. Cultural institutions such as the V&A and RSC are seeking to explore new opportunities to create novel content and monetise existing assets via: Virtual depiction of heritage textiles and dress and new experiences for visitors (e.g. enabling the virtual 'try-on' garments and costume) Heritage/and archive-informed clothed characters in hybrid live performancesAesthetically enhanced depictions of the moving clothed body in immersive and live performance environments, gaming, screen, and wider cultural and commercial contexts Digital archival dress and costume as a form of personal expression in the virtual worldCreation of textile and dress-based non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Exploration of these possibilities will create new markets for the creative and cultural sectors, driving the build of skills to serve them. However, UK-wide research-led capacity and skills in this field are limited, hindering access and advanced development beyond traditionally associated practices and disciplines, which UAL VP/XR facilities will address.