fostering critical dialogue around participatory textile making methods in research and practice
Stitching Together network member Naomi Clarke is involved in a research project called Crafting During Coronavirus as part of her PhD research at the University of Bristol. She writes: “This is obviously an incredibly difficult and tumultuous time for many people but I have also seen a real creativity coming through social media with people learning …
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It is wonderful to have so many of you interested in the work we are doing with the network. Obviously, in this time of uncertainty the nature of ‘together’ has temporarily changed. Current circumstances have disrupted how we do our work and also how we network with others in the field. So, we thought this …
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What do you do when the premise of your project revolves around meeting up, stitching face to face and encouraging the over 50s to become artistic rebels yarn bombing their local bus route, when a pandemic requires us to stay at home? The answer for Tina Francis and Suze Carter of Woolly Mammoth Stitch Works …
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The website has been very quiet over the last few months. We’ve all had our heads down working hard behind the scenes preparing the Stitching Together special edition of the Journal of Arts and Communities. We've been busy writing, reviewing, editing... We had a fantastic response to the Call for Contributions - from all over …
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On Tuesday 9th July we welcomed 18 attendees (including ourselves) to the Arts University Bournemouth for our second network event, the Critical Reflection Workshop. The weather was hot and the beach was close by, but an intense day with a full programme of workshop sessions kept us occupied! Our aim for the day was to …
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Before telling you all what we did during our second network event, the Critical Reflection workshop, I thought I would first gather together some of the key strands of thinking from the first event to remind us all of what we have so far. We have begun to analyse the material generated from our first …
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Time has flown by since our first network event back in April. In this time, the network has continued to grow and we have welcomed new members. We have launched our Friday guest blog post, enabling the dialogue begun at our first event to continue to evolve and broaden across the whole network and beyond. …
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A Stitching Together network extension is on the horizon! It is wonderful to have so many of you interested in the work we are doing with the network, and, as we have said before, we wish we could invite everyone to our events. Although the AHRC network grant is enabling a lot of good work, …
In an earlier post we mentioned the importance of keeping in sight the nuanced and subtle differences between all the varied ways of using participatory textile making activities for research. This is one of the strengths of this approach. The endless combinations of people, materials and techniques set to work in carefully considered locations and …
Our first Stitching Together network event went really well. We welcomed a group of 13 researchers (including ourselves) to our Case Study Workshop at the wonderful Clayhill Arts in Somerset. Over two intense days we all had a chance to ‘taste’ a variety of participatory textile making workshops. Lynn Setterington introduced us to Suffolk puffs, emphasising the …
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