so…
look into projects by lasts years 3rd y – Isablella fulford, Nia Conents
in terms of speculative futures there seems to be two avenues of speculative futures that are profoundly speculative and therefore are more a visualisation in order to reflections of the present:
- Philip K Dick UBIK (his descriptions of outfits could be interesting)
- William Gibson
- afrofuturism – liberal space program
- William Davis?
and futures that are more pragmatic in the speculation in that they may provide scenarios to visualise FOR
- look up Guy Debords; society of the spectacle.
- (end of Being Ecological – manifesto of how to actually de-anthropomorphise… which leads onto another avenue of research which is to bring in theory of how to do this… spec realism (maybe look at and criticise ‘dark mountain project.. t.morton hates it…))
- Julia Watson – low-tech design by radical indigenism
- approaching things from a design inspiration perspective.. not so much theory
- Revisiting the future; post capitalism, a world without work (author?)
- How to be an anti-capitalist in the 21st century (author?)
- podcast; ACFM – on Jeremy Gilbert…
draw on these avenues of futurabiliy… provide myself with visceral fictions in order to create within.
Tom proposed the question ; is it possible to envision dress of the future
How does looking at visual efficacy come into these futures?
NEW REPORT PROJECT QUESTIONS:
- de anthropomorphising attitudes to materials used in dress
- efficacy of making dress for future scenarios
- how could speculative realism inform dress of a post capitalist future
- how does speculative realism inform the framing of material traces via objects of embodiment
- what does a speculative realist approach to synthetic bodily ornamentation look like – how can we harness the microbial world with out objectifying it….
- what is the future of dress under these conditions; ….. ….. ….. ….. eg:
- autographic / harnessing material traces = being totally anthropocentric
- aesthetic of UBIK and material development = uber hierarchical/unequal society of fashion becoming a thing of the past for the poor
- synthesising human and synthetic biology = misinterpreting human nature dichotomies…
THINKING RESEARCH 