Technically Fabric: Innovation in Textile Practice and Design in 20th-21st Century Manchester

该项目旨在开发新的历史，收藏和叙述，这些历史，收藏和叙述建立在纺织品实践的基础上，并在英国纺织品增长联盟报告和大曼彻斯特地方工业战略的背景下，为曼彻斯特及其纺织品的未来指明方向。曼彻斯特艺术学院（MSA），特别收藏（SC）MMU，材料UoM（DoM）和科学与工业博物馆（SIM）的合作伙伴关系汇集了当代纺织品设计和技术创新，创新纺织品制作实践和收集政策的专业知识，作为未来研究的资源。曼彻斯特是纺织创新的摇篮，每个合作机构通过研究，教学和收藏代表了纺织品的过去，现在和未来。该奖学金将通过研究为SIM的2030年总体规划提供关键支持，该研究直接有助于拟议的创意城市叙事画廊，该画廊旨在探索缩小纺织业的创造力和弹性如何使曼彻斯特从“棉花城”转变为创新城市和主要中心，以研究和发展时尚和纺织品创新。

The project seeks to develop new histories, collections and narratives that are founded in textiles practice and which signpost Manchester and its textiles future in the context of the Alliance Report into UK textiles growth and the Greater Manchester Local Industrial Strategy. The partnership of Manchester School of Art (MSA), Special Collections (SC) MMU, the Department of Materials UoM (DoM) and the Science and Industry Museum (SIM) brings together expertise in contemporary textile design and technological innovation, innovative textile making practices and collecting policies, as resources for future research. Manchester was the cradle of textile innovation, and each partner institution represents the past, present and future of textiles through research, teaching and collecting. The studentship will provide key support for SIM's 2030 Master Plan through research that contributes directly to the proposed City of Ideas narrative gallery, which seeks to explore how creativity and resilience in the downsized textiles sector have enabled Manchester's transition from 'Cottonopolis' into the innovative city and major centre for research and development in fashion and textiles innovation it is today.