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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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Lifting threads, piercing fabrics, and tracing stories through stitches: An embroidery inquiry into analysing empirical material 1: Department of Health Science, Innovation and Design, Mälardalen University, Eskilstuna, Sweden; 2: Västmanland County Museum, Region Västmanland, Västerås, Sweden This paper investigates how textile-based practices can open alternative modes of inquiry into research material. Through an exploratory workshop, a multidisciplinary group of creative professionals and design researchers engaged with photo-elicitation data by embroidering directly onto photographs printed on fabric and wallpaper. This tactile and embodied engagement enabled a slower, more reflective encounter with the material, where meaning emerged through touch, rhythm, and collective making rather than systematic analysis. By lifting threads, piercing fabrics, and tracing stories through stitches, participants enacted a form of textile thinking: one that performs epistemologically through material interaction. This approach situates embroidery as a methodological and philosophical practice that intertwines making and knowing, contributing to ongoing discussion about the role of textiles in expanding design theory and critical inquiry. View Paper: https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2026.746
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