Customer experience
Fashion Displays
Ethical Design
With these key words/phrases, I found the following readings to analyse:
- http://www.tedresearch.net/media/files/The_New_Designers_2007.pdf
- http://www.tandfebooks.com.ezproxy.massey.ac.nz/doi/view/10.4324/9781315738802
- http://www.ijdesign.org/ojs/index.php/IJDesign/article/view/1613/696
1. This reading involves discussion around eco-fashion and how future designers of fashion and textiles will need to be pro-active in how they design. The key environmental problems facing the industry are the chemical pollution, the demand for faster and cheaper fashion, and transportation. The author tells of many projects they have worked on that is a positive impact on the industry. Within the Designers' Exhibition at London Fashion Week, designer Orsola de Castro curated an event in February 2007 called Esthetica. This was a new space dedicated to sustainable fashion.
2. This reading hold a lot of great information around durable design relating to fashion. Key points include, fully-functional landfill waste, self improvement through purchasing new items, material consumption, society's attitude on positive change, emotional attachments to objects plus many others.
3. This reading is based on research done around reasons why people stop wearing particular clothing items, or throw them away. It looks into how can clothing be made to last and the impact that will have on the environment.
In Monday's class, we visited the Cindy Sherman exhibition at the City Gallery. The following is an image I drew of the exhibition layout, in response to seeing her work. I felt that what I want to do in my project is unrelated to Sherman's work and while drawing the exhibition, I found it looked quite boring and had no structure to it. This made me realise that I want to create an interactive exhibition rather than one that you just walk around and look at.
Thoughts of moving forward:
I had a think about what makes catwalk shows ethical and sustainable. Most shows will give away goodie bags, programmes, vouchers, etc and a lot of it isn't used after the show, and therefore is thrown away. This is unsustainable and unnecessary for the environment and the consumers. Fashion show go-ers want an experience while seeing a show, and there are plenty of ways to do this other than giving them bits of paper and unwanted vouchers.
I also need to think about the following:
- Who is my audience?
- Anyone who is buying clothing.
- What is the best way to get information across? (If there is too much information, people stop engaging).
- Be engaging and interactive. Let the audience touch, smell, taste, see and hear.
- SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats). In terms of my previous work.
- Look into exhibitions that involve static and movement.
- Budgets
- Performance writing/arcade
- What do people like in an exhibition.
- Create a survey. Fill out an ethics form.
- Letting spaces around Wellington?
- London 2005 crafts council. Esthetica Sustainable fashion exhibitions.
- Visit as many exhibitions as possible, for analysis.
What makes an exhibition interactive?
I went along to the Bug Exhibition at Te Papa, to see how it got people interacting with information and learning about the life of bugs. The following are some images and videos I personally took while participating in the exhibition.
Research Proposals explain to your reader what you want to investigate, why you want to investigate, and how you will investigate.
What: Map the areas you want to research. Create a narrative about your topic and focus in on that.
Why: Provide a rational for choosing these areas. Review the literature of what has been thought and researched before. Do these other researchers care?
How: Explain the process that will allow you to find what you want to find. Detail how you will conduct the research.
Structure:
- Title Page
- Intro/Background (What)
- Research aims/questions (What)
- Literature Review (Why)
- Method (How)
- Ethics (How)
- Timeline
The narrative of your proposal can be:
- Personal: Appealing to others
- Ethical: Appealing to ethos or sense of right and wrong
- Academic: Appealing to logos or scientific development
I went along to the Bug Exhibition at Te Papa, to see how it got people interacting with information and learning about the life of bugs. The following are some images and videos I personally took while participating in the exhibition.
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Research Proposals explain to your reader what you want to investigate, why you want to investigate, and how you will investigate.
What: Map the areas you want to research. Create a narrative about your topic and focus in on that.
Why: Provide a rational for choosing these areas. Review the literature of what has been thought and researched before. Do these other researchers care?
How: Explain the process that will allow you to find what you want to find. Detail how you will conduct the research.
Structure:
- Title Page
- Intro/Background (What)
- Research aims/questions (What)
- Literature Review (Why)
- Method (How)
- Ethics (How)
- Timeline
The narrative of your proposal can be:
- Personal: Appealing to others
- Ethical: Appealing to ethos or sense of right and wrong
- Academic: Appealing to logos or scientific development
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