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

希望，通常是一种断裂，甚至是一种创伤性的经历，是处于修复状态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, p.146）对于我来说，Sedgewick的修复性读者形象巧妙地阐明了我如何定位自己与上述博士项目的关系。收集碎片的修补读者，也许也是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，这些方式也可以作为研究过程本身的隐喻。鉴于项目提案已经在学生广告中概述，我想借此机会进一步探讨项目中吸引我和激励我的方面。文本和纺织品我深深投入于潜在文本表现形式的多样性——构成文本和文本实践的表演和物质可能性。除了词源学上的共鸣之外，文本和纺织品之间的关系一直是女权主义思想中反复出现的主题，作为一种阐明写作和制作如何结合在一起产生知识的方式（Collins, 2016; Dormor, 2014; Jeffries, 1995）。在女权主义实践和过程的表述中，我一次又一次地遇到纺织品的词汇。例如，Showalter（1988）的“拼凑”行为，探索将绗缝作为美国女性写作过程的隐喻。缝纫的线作为修补的隐喻也可以在女性的文本实践中找到。Dormor（2014）考察了缝合线与女性写作的关系，就像Cixous（2005）的文本“缝合在一起，缝合再缝合”和“分享伤口的痕迹”（第11页）。缝纫作为修理的隐喻对我来说是一个强有力的和共鸣的形象，也许是因为我在女权主义思想、实践和制造方面的基础。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。这也将支持我对从业者访谈的方法，影响我收集和组装这些材料的方式，我将充分利用项目的这一阶段，让自己沉浸在设计和纺织实践中。

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.