KEYNOTE TALK given by Seçil Uğur Yavuz at DESIGNA 2018 conference, in Portugal.
“Thanks to emerging digital technologies, crafting textile has been evolving at a rapid pace, gaining new dimensions and meaning. Embedding electronics in textiles or using digital fabrication tools in crafting them gives rise to a new type of practice which leads practitioners to create diverse and unexpected results.
Although the field of textile craft and electronics look quite different from each other, one is based on tacit knowledge and hands-on experience, while the other one is more explicit that can be codified and digitalized, together they form a new territory, ‘a new area of negotiation’. The presentation will address on the textiles emerging in the intersection of different practices and discuss how new knowledge and opportunities can arise in this ‘space in-between’.”
Date: November, 2018
Link:http://www.designa.ubi.pt/en/2018