Geographies of memory and nostalgia
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2020
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Mcode
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Master’s Programme in Fashion, Clothing and Textile Design
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en
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181+150
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Abstract
Geographies of Memory and Nostalgia explores the use of storytelling as a form of creation for interior fabrics, and analyses the role of a creative director in the coordination of textile collections. This practice-led thesis aims to build a methodology of creative direction for woven and printed textiles. The thesis first defines the concepts and intersections between creative direction, collection making and storytelling in textiles, and later explores these notions within the creation of an original narrative that gradually transforms into a textile collection. This study addresses the idea of storyworld as a form of understanding collections and stories, which focuses on the atmospheric elements (emotions and sensations) of places and characters that are integrated as a whole entity. It also presents how parts of these worlds can be catalogued and organized into an atlas that creates the architecture of the storyworld, and how it serves as a navigation tool for the creative director and their collaborators during the following steps of collection making. I created a narrative based on my family by conducting a series of one-to-one interviews, gathering different stories about places and characters, which subsequently were transformed into writ-ten fictions. These stories are based on memories of my mother, her parents and grandparents, who lived together in the same house for decades and traveled around Colombia during different periods of time. The production part of this thesis consists of an interior textile collection of sixteen designs. The development of the designs explored surfaces and structures for weaving where colors, rhythms, scales, textures, bindings, and yarn qualities followed the criteria and moods of coordinated narratives. Written text was used as a methodology to portray the atmospheres and emotions from the stories, which was later transformed into a storyworld involving visual research and textile materiality compiled into the form of an atlas. The design process started with collection coordination by compiling the atmospheres of the stories together, then building a map that gathered color palettes and individual design ideas. The final interior textile collection was produced in collaboration with Vanelli, a Turkish textile mill, where storytelling plays an essential role in the creation and coordination of collections.Description
Supervisor
Salolainen, MaaritThesis advisor
Weselius, HannaSalolainen, Maarit
Keywords
creative direction, textile collections, collection coordination, storytelling, storyworlds, woven textiles, interior fabrics
