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Pieces of MAS by Walter Warton, 2010

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Batik print samples collected from Fabric Vendors in Peckham - these were fabric sample offcuts collected from the area in an attempt to try and map an area through its use of textiles, obviously there is an awareness of the speculation and assumption involved within such a process which is why it unfortunately didn’t necessarily develop further throughout the project. 

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Thought this was an interesting statement, looking at western ideals placed on other cultures throughout society. Reflected within statements such as ‘where you grew up must have been so exotic’ or ‘you seem so different’ when people speak to me about my place identity and where I grew up which can make you feel as though your individual place identity is weird. 

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The A3 Poster of the pantones of the images I took from Brunei, this was based on a comment made within the WIP that harrison tweed is created through all the colours you can see from your window 

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Images from my time in Brunei, these images were compiled into a booklet that allowed me to develop a series of pantones of the colours of Brunei that I could use to adapt into textile for things like the Harrison Tweed fabric suggested in my WIP feedback by Joe Harrington

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Images from my time in Brunei, these images were compiled into a booklet that allowed me to develop a series of pantones of the colours of Brunei that I could use to adapt into textile for things like the Harrison Tweed fabric suggested in my WIP feedback by Joe Harrington 

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Cultures of Repair Past and Present Workshop 11/03/16

Newness - techniques of repairing are shared Gold Thread - the common link between the collection Cohen - there is a crack in everything thats where the light gets in 

Repair and textile making workshops  Katherine: The Obsessive Patchworker 

Patchwork/Piecework Borders: Social Fabric  Quilt Garden - Bring Old Clothing, undoing garments to create a quilt that will hang in the garden  Repair ( meaning of the word)  Watercolour - old laundry, natural dye, to make large dye vat, hanging cloth throughout the building, darning - filling in the gap, sewing table, dye vat is a living thing you have to tend and care for them  Allotment patch - denim makers,growing indigo, space, lay out in production, seasonal cooking, seasonal clothing 

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Cultures Of Repair, Past & Present - Workshop 11/03/16

Lizzie Cannon: Darning as Intervention 

Perceptions of nature, Mended leaf:  leaf with holes in  - making the mend as invisible as possible  - dancing the leaf similar act of reparations and destructions  “Through fabricating things that social self creates itself because the relationship between objects and people is reciprocal” Leaf becomes fragile, Beauty of things impermanent, incomplete and imperfect  Beauty of things impermanent, incomplete and imperfect -reference of the obsession to collect  - 19th century collection of things?  - textiles become very intimate to us  - repairing is a way of relagating  - collect things as she walks around the city  - patchwork of the pavement  - cracks are filled with embroidery  - Barridale (2012) - once where functional  - process of decay  - social live  - biological & chemical live as well  Ruby Hoette: Cultures of repair in the present 

- process: motaini ( too good to waste, Japanese process)  - maintained throughout the owners lifestyle  - negative impact of fashion  - layers of fabric become the object itself  - Boisbuchet (2013)  - Repair: related to an idea of domestic & duty  - put right (an unwelcome situation)  - a place where people gather 

Nudie Jeans : Prolonged live of a garment, still something missing: connection  Repair Manifesto: Creative & productive  Independence: powering the user to be the master of their clothing  Wool Filler: felted wool  Repair/Invisible/Visible 

Repair openness - local wisdom - repair the connection as well as the garment  Kintsukuroi: Repair with gold. 

Golden Journey: Painted fashion design by you 

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Collage of the places that make up my place identity - aiming to understand how our place identity can impact our identity as a person 

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Collage looking at the concept of citizenship as a form of Identity forming 

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Collage looking at Expressing Identity within Urban Spaces 

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Tutorial Notes - 10/03/16  Stuart Bannocks

Laura Oldfield - Savage Messiah  Psychogeography  Mark Fischers Blog - Soundtrack walk written by Laura Oldfield  Walk with these people, that have interesting interpretations of textures and how they relate to the world, Get as much done as possible, Things & People blog, interesting dynamic however my project needs to have more of a purpose there was no specific purpose to this blog, 

You are at an advantage here as you get to go on these walks, however you need to remember that you are designing for people that can’t go on these walks, what do they benefit from this project? Moranifesto - embroidery of conversation, where does this embroidery exist? 

Listen to podcasts  Scrubious/Scruppious (unsure of spelling) Podcasts  Archive of conversations, Project forward - what do you do when you have 50 of these things?  What do you want to do ? What do you want to collect ?  Self Reflection: Why am I interested in this?  Richard Herring: Live  Criton: Red Dwarf - Car Share - Lawrence  3 Distinct areas, Trialetic formula - Walk between these three points - Tight Spaces 

THINK OF A FORMAT  1) Something you discovered this year  2) Earliest memory of the places  3) Something new - Something Old - Something Borrowed - Something Blue 

Coffee Table Book, Last Meals, Talk about the Locations,  RIC  1) Residential  2) Commercial  3) Industry 

Where are we not going that you couldn’t?  You as a resident  You as a consumer  You as a working person  Spaces change - you need to be aware of this when collecting things

REFINE IT 

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Adornment Of Identity

Images highlighting how people use the interface of the house/home to express forms of their own identity. Within this specific case I located the use of window as a form of self expression and political expression within the home. Obviously there are nationalistic connotations often associated with this, especially with the use of flags etc. An exploration into this allowed me to try and design a way in which form of expression and the fluidity of identity could be expressed more temporarily within urban spaces. 

Further exploration and explanation of this can be located within my Context Report. 

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Collage of Adornment of the home, looking at how architecture can be transformed to be more representative of peoples identity. 

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Context Report Feedback

Rachel, this was a very interesting piece of work that attempts to weave the various methodological practices of qualitive interviewing, prototyping, co-creation, service design, and the construction of speculative dystopias together in a way that constructively illuminates your topic of the “fabric of identity”. Your initial recognition of the fact that this process is multivalent is well made. As are the thinkers that you have chosen to help you consider this process of “identity construction” - i.e. Foucault, Giddens, Boudieu and Lefebvre - well chosen. And indeed some more attention to some of this work might have helped you formulate an even more unequivocal statement of your question - particularly Lefebvre’s work on the “trialectic” nature of the structuration of identity and space. Your consideration of Supertanker’s ‘urban co-creation’ methods of immersive collaborative participation was particularly well considered and useful to the development of your thesis. I’m not quite sure how the observation of batik textiles in the textiles collection, and interviews with the locals, allowed you to truly “realise” the sense of place, or “genius loci” of its original indigenous context of production, and this probably needs some further explanation or exegesis. Your critique/analysis of the various mechanisms by which our contemporary atomistic or individualised concepts of identity or self are formed was well considered but probably could have benefitted from some further analysis of the mechanisms of the Marxist reading of this process, that you mention in passing, through an analysis of Louis Althusser’s and Guy Debord’s Work. But nonetheless a very well considered solid piece of work. 

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Overlaying Images with Facebook comments of the V&A looking at different digital interactions with a space and how this context can be reintegrated into the original form of the museum. 

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Reflection of light on V&A Sculpture