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PAPERS: Making Theory with Textiles II Location: Appleton Tower, LT4 Zoom link accessibility: https://www.accessable.co.uk/the-university-of-edinburgh/central-area/access-guides/appleton-lecture-theatre-4-edinburgh Session Chair: Tincuta Heinzel, Loughborough University Session Chair: Elaine Igoe, University of Southampton (Winchester School of Art) | |
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Affective Epistemologies: Textile Teaching at University of Chile, 1930-2000 1: Pontificia Universidad Católica, Chile; 2: Universidad de Chile, Chile This study analyses textile teaching at Universidad de Chile (1930-2000), the first institution to incorporate it as an academic discipline in the country, as a case of theory-making through practice. Drawing on archives, oral testimonies, and material objects (looms, notebooks, works), we reconstruct how textiles operated simultaneously as technical knowledge, affective space, and pedagogical practice. In dialogue with Catherine Dormor, we approach weaving as material thinking and "theory-making" through making; following Elvira Espejo, we situate it as a matrix of relational knowledges. This case inscribes itself within institutionalization of textiles in 20th-century art and design schools, with influence from foreign instructors and emphasis on gobelins, tapestry, and kilim. Currently, both collection and teaching remain in Faculty of Arts as textile art, with no consolidated field in design. This displacement evidences the need to reconsider textiles in design education. We argue textiles produced epistemological frameworks dialoguing with contemporary material practice debates. View Paper: https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2026.1648
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