Trauma, textiles, and technologies: Participatory sewing of electronic-textiles as a metaphor for post-traumatic healing

创伤、纺织品和技术：电子纺织品的参与式缝纫作为创伤后康复的隐喻

• 批准号: 2594272
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Northumbria University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2594272
• 关键词: Trauma; textiles; technologies; Participatory; sewing

Hope, often a fracturing, even a traumatic thing to experience, is among the energies by which the reparatively positioned reader tries to organize the fragments and part-objects she encounters or creates. (Sedgewick, 2003, p.146)Sedgewick's figure of the reparative reader delicately articulates, for me, how I position myself in relation to the above PhD project. The reparative reader, gathering fragments, is also, perhaps, a seamstress, or weaver. I am particularly enthralled by the potential ways in which both sewing and repair might also act as metaphors for the research process itself. Given that the project proposal has already been outlined in the studentship advert, I would like to take this opportunity to further explore the aspects of the project that intrigue and incite me. Text and textilesI am deeply invested in the multiplicity of potential textual manifestations - the performative and material possibilities of what constitutes text and textual practices. The relationship between text and textile, beyond etymological resonances, has been a recurrent theme in feminist thought, as a way to articulate how writing and making come together to generate knowledge (Collins, 2016; Dormor, 2014; Jeffries, 1995). I encounter lexicons of textiles again and again in articulations of feminist practices and processes. For example, Showalter's (1988) act of 'piecing', exploring quilting as a metaphor for the processes of American women's writing. The threads of sewing as a metaphor for repair can also be found in women's textual practices. Dormor (2014) examines the stitch as a suture in relation to women's writing, just as Cixous' (2005) texts are "stitched together sewn and resewn" and "share the trace of a wound" (p. xi). Sewing as a metaphor for repair is a potent and resonant image for me, perhaps because of my grounding in feminist thought, praxis, and making. I will use my existing knowledge to orient myself within the discipline of design, in order to develop a comprehensive literature review across trauma studies, textile practices and digital technologies. This will also support my approach to practitioner interviews, influencing the ways in which I gather and assemble this material, and I will make full use of this stage of the project to immerse myself in design and textile practices.

希望，常常是一种破碎，甚至是一种创伤性的经历，是处于修复性位置的读者试图组织她遇到或创造的碎片和部分对象的能量之一。（Sedgewick，2003年，第146页）Sedgewick的修复性读者的形象微妙地阐明了，对我来说，我如何定位自己与上述博士项目的关系。修复性的读者，收集碎片，也是，也许，一个女裁缝，或织布工。我特别着迷于缝纫和修理的潜在方式也可能作为研究过程本身的隐喻。鉴于这个项目的建议已经在奖学金广告中列出，我想借此机会进一步探讨这个项目中引起我兴趣和激动的方面。文本和文本我深深地投入到潜在的文本表现形式的多样性中--构成文本和文本实践的表演和材料的可能性。文本和纺织品之间的关系，超越词源学的共鸣，一直是女权主义思想中反复出现的主题，作为一种表达写作和制作如何结合在一起产生知识的方式（柯林斯，2016; Dormor，2014; Jeffries，1995）。我一次又一次地遇到纺织品词汇，以表达女权主义的实践和过程。例如，肖沃尔特（1988）的“拼凑”行为，探索绗缝作为美国妇女写作过程的隐喻。缝纫线作为修补的隐喻也可以在女性的文本实践中找到。Dormor（2014）将缝合作为缝合线与女性写作的关系进行了研究，就像Cixous（2005）的文本“缝合在一起，缝合并重新缝合”和“分享伤口的痕迹”（第xi页）一样。对我来说，缝纫作为修复的隐喻是一个强有力的、能引起共鸣的形象，也许是因为我在女权主义思想、实践和制作方面的基础。我将利用我现有的知识在设计学科中定位自己，以便在创伤研究，纺织实践和数字技术方面进行全面的文献综述。这也将支持我对实践者的采访，影响我收集和整理这些材料的方式，我将充分利用项目的这个阶段，让自己沉浸在设计和纺织实践中。