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Wearing Black When Feeling Blue: An Exploration Of The Relationship Between Clothing And Mood., Rins Lindeman, Pieter M. A. Desmet, Maurizio Filippi
Wearing Black When Feeling Blue: An Exploration Of The Relationship Between Clothing And Mood., Rins Lindeman, Pieter M. A. Desmet, Maurizio Filippi
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The relationship between an individual’s outfit and their mood is complex and varies from person to person. Yet, every garment possesses characteristics that can influence, intensify, or conceal the wearer’s mood. This paper explores this relationship between outfits and the wearer’s mood, examining how clothing choices can affect mood and they can be used to alter it. Through a combination of a literature study and an exploratory questionnaire study that asked people to take photographs of their outfits, key garment characteristics have been determined for four distinct moods: tense, cheerful, gloomy, and relaxed. These characteristics were used to create a …
Experiencing Sustainable Fashion: Have Fun And Feel Clever – A Case Study For Critical Design Literacy, Hanna Hofverberg, Ninitha Maivorsdotter
Experiencing Sustainable Fashion: Have Fun And Feel Clever – A Case Study For Critical Design Literacy, Hanna Hofverberg, Ninitha Maivorsdotter
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Clothes consumerism is increasing every year, which is a huge challenge for sustainability. Educa-tional Design research have shown that the challenge cannot be solved unless we have critical literate consumers. By making the question of sustainable clothing a matter for critical design lit-eracy, the aim of this case study is to examine the meaning making of an educational material produced for teachers in design and craft education. The educational material, entitled Sustaina-ble Fashion, consists of 17 design projects and the analysis is made with the aid of practical epis-temological analysis with a specific focus on aesthetic experience. Two ways of …
So What Do Design Students Really Think? Exploring Perceptions Of Learning Landscapes, Louise Barbour, Lindy Osborne, Glenda Caldwell
So What Do Design Students Really Think? Exploring Perceptions Of Learning Landscapes, Louise Barbour, Lindy Osborne, Glenda Caldwell
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This paper investigates learning environments from the view of the key users - students. Recent literature on designing Learning Landscapes indicates a near absence of the student voice, assuming that the majority of students are either uninterested or unable to express what they want or need, in a learning environment. The focus of this research is to reveal Architecture and Fashion Design students’ perceptions of their learning environments. Furthermore, this study questions the appropriateness of usual design of learning spaces for Design students, or if the environment needs to be specifically catered for the learning of different disciplines of Design, …