Stitching worlds : exploring textiles and electronics /
What if electronics emerged from knitting, weaving, crochet, and embroidery? Stitching Worlds blends the territories of textiles and electronics by investigating textile techniques as controversial means for manufacturing electronic objects. Bringing together the results of a four-year arts-based re...
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Published: |
Revolver Publishing,
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Publisher Address: | Berlin, Germany : |
Publication Dates: | 2018. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Summary: |
What if electronics emerged from knitting, weaving, crochet, and embroidery? Stitching Worlds blends the territories of textiles and electronics by investigating textile techniques as controversial means for manufacturing electronic objects. Bringing together the results of a four-year arts-based research project, the book challenges our assumptions and expectations about technology by revealing unexpected potentials of often-undervalued knowledge and skills. |
Item Description: | "This book results from the arts-based research project Stitching Worlds carried out between May 2014 and June 2018 at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna"--Page 7. |
Carrier Form: | 158 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 154-157). |
ISBN: |
9783957634221 3957634229 |
Index Number: | NK8805 |
CLC: | J533.1-39 |
Call Number: | J533.1-39/S862 |
Contents: |
Foreword / Introduction / Mapping the breeding grounds -- The textile-thinking paradox / Techniques -- Patterns, instructions, formulas -- Codes of craft and conduct / Materials -- Production landscapes -- Parallel industries / Crafting realities -- Handcrafting the digital / Crafted logic -- Crafted logic for a different--big--machine / Tools we want -- How to "make" money / |