TMA1431 - Transdisciplinary (Week 1)

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TMA1431 – Creative Studio 

WEEK ONE – THE TRANSDISCIPLINARY STUDIO  

 

            Transdisciplinary 

 /. ˌtranzdɪsɪˈplɪnəri/ 

          adjective 

  •           relating to more than one branch of knowledge; interdisciplinary. 

 

 

What does the term transdisciplinary mean? 

  • Transdisciplinary Research is defined as research efforts managed by investigators from different disciplines working jointly to create new conceptual, theoretical, methodological and translation innovations that integrate and move beyond discipline - specific approaches to address a common problem.  

                                             


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INDEPENDENT GROUP 


The Independent Group (IG) were a radical group of young artists, writers and critics who met at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in London in the 1950’s and challenged the dominant modernist (as they saw it elitst) culture dominant at that time, in order to market more inclusive of popular culture.  




  • Sir Eduardo Paolozzi 
  • Peter Smithson                                     <-- Original members of the 
  • Alison Smithson                                            Independent Group 
  • Nigel Henderson

          

 

‘’ Artists and designers are now defined not by their discipline but by the fluidity with which their practices move between the fields of architecture, art and design’’.  

                                                                                                               - Alex Coles                                                      



Transdisciplinary - Fashion


Studying fashion, it shows that working in a fashion industry you need to work with other disciplines such as photographers, to showcase your work. Also, studying fashion it allows us to learn the different disciplines within the fashion industry such as designer, machinist, pattern cutter, all those jobs are form the same field of work however everyone specialises in different field. 


Fashion is becoming more advanced and is starting to think about different materials and textiles to use for garment. Fashion is starting to think more about the environment and sustainable way of creating garments that would become safer for the environment and not to produce too much waste. Brand such as Magic Lining in 2020 stared a transdisciplinary collaborative project that involves an artistic and scientific partner. Working with e-textile design, cognitive neuroscience, and human-computer interaction to explore a smart textile that alter people’s self-perception. Magic Lining questions with body tracking and sound based wearable technology could be used to alter self-perception (K.K, A.T, A.V. (2018). It shows that fashion can be more than just a simple garment, by transdisciplinary collaboration it can be something more, and allowing to create something unique that will benefit people. The inside of the garment and the production process comes more important than the outside of the garment. It changes how people see the outside world and how people perceive others. (K.K, A.T, A.V. CoDesign, 2020) 





Reference:

1. K.K, A.T, A.V. (2018). Magic lining: an exploration of smart textiles altering people's self-perception. ACM Digital Library. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3212721.3212893 

2. K.K, A.T, A.V. CoDesign. (2020). A transdisciplinary collaborative journey leading to sensorial clothing. tandfonline. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15710882.2020.1833934?journalCode=ncdn20 

3. Tate, London. (2020). Tate . https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/i/independent-group#:~:text=Leading%20artists%20involved%20were%20Richard,Peter%20Smithson%20(see%20brutalism







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