Approach
Our approach to the exploration of the fashion/technology area follows an iterative process of defining problems and issues, practical researching, visualising and generative techniques, and prototyping, and testing them in user observation studies. The issues are defined and investigated through a series of creative workshops, which seek to emphasize a 'thinking and learning through doing' approach. The three workshops, Explore , Create and Observe , examine emergent social concerns and potential products solutions, based around the three themes of Emotional Connection , Customisation and Creativity ' and Human Connectedness .
The creative workshops are small multi-site projects that use a variety of creative approaches, such as modelling garments on the stand, role playing and prototype development to understand the key questions and their future implications for the development of this cross-sector area. The workshop are then analysed in a follow-up CAG meeting where the direction of the Cluster is examined and reassessed and the findings fed into the subsequent workshops. The creative workshops are hosted and led by members in rotation, moving through fashion studios and labs for computing, electronics, materials science and cognitive science. Each host leads the exploration of the topic from the established perspective of their own discipline. The objective of this process is to explore the aim of The Emotional Wardrobe through experiencing methods and processes from each sector, thereby gaining insight and understanding into those areas, to inform issues and concerns for cross-sectoral collaboration in Designing for the 21 st Century.
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