Stringing Together Digital Technologies and Artisanal Weaving or Sewing Processes A Critical Practice Review
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Tania Pérez Bustos
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Abstract
This article aims to present a review of some of the digital technologies designed around artisanal weaving, embroidery, and sewing practices. This review seeks to identify the tensions and points of contact that exist between the knowledge associated to textiles and crafts, and that related to technology and computer science. Specifically, this article focuses on three types of information technology design: firstly, one oriented to the construction of digital repositories of artisanal textile practices; secondly, the development of tangible user interfaces inspired by the materiality of textile goods; and, finally, in initiatives that, in order to devise digital technologies, focus on the creative potential of the languages-materials of artisanal textile production. This article concludes with a solid reflection on the possibilities of co-learning that emerge from the encounters that happen to take place between digital technology and artisanal weaving or embroidery.
Keywords
digital technologies, artisanal embroidery and weaving, knowledge dialoguetecnologías digitales, bordado y tejido artesanal, diálogo de saberestecnologias digitais, rendado e tecelão artesanal, diálogo de saberes
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Cortés-Rico, L. (2015). ApTUI Framework para el Diseño Participativo de Interacciones Tangibles. (Memoria de trabajo de grado de maestría). Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá. Recuperado de http://pegasus.javeriana.edu. co/~PI133-03-ApTUI/docs/MemoriasAp- TUI_LauraCortés.pdf
Galloway, A. (2014). Counting Sheep: NZ Merino in an Internet of Things. Counting Sheep: NZ Merino in an Internet of Things. Recuperado de countingsheep.info
González Rivera, R., Cortés-Rico, L., Pérez Bustos, T. y Franco-Avellaneda, M. (2016). Embroidering Engineering: a Case of Embo- died Learning and Design of a Tangible User Interface. Engineering Studies, 8(1), 48-65.
Gowrishankar, R. (2015). Narrativize.net. Recuperado de http://narrativize.net/
Gowrishankar, R. y Hyyppä, K. (2012). Single Women’s e-crowns. Recuperado de http:// singlewomensecrowns.tumblr.com/
Guljajeva, V., Canet, M. y Mealla, S. (2012). NeuroKnitting. Varvara & Mar. Recuperado de http://www.varvarag.info/neuroknitting/
Haring, K. (2015). How to Knit a Popular History of Media. Open Transcripts. Recuperado de http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/knit- popular-history-media/
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Indian Institute of Craft & Design. (2015). Embroi- dery Craft Design Bank. Recuperado de http://embroiderycraftdesignbank.in/index. php
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Kuusk, K. (2016). Crafting sustainable smart textile services. Eindhoven: Eindhoven University of Technology.
Latour, B. (2008). Reensamblar lo social: una introducción a la Teoría Actor-Red. Buenos Aires: Manantial.
Law, J. (2008). Actor Network Theory and Mate- rial Semiotics. En B. Turner (ed.), The New Blackwell Companion to Social Theory (3a ed., pp. 141-158). West Sussex: Blackwell.
Lindström, K. y Ståhl, Å. (2012). Making private matters public in temporary assemblies. CoDesign, 8(2-3), 145-161. http://doi.org/10.1 080/15710882.2012.672578
Lindström, K. y Ståhl, Å. (2014). Patchworking publics-in-the-making : design, media and public engagement. Malmö Univerisity. Recuperado de https://dspace.mah.se/handle/2043/16093
Lindström, K. y Ståhl, Å. (2015). Figurations of spatiality and temporality in participatory design and after: networks, meshworks and patchworking. CoDesign, 11(October), 222- 235. http://doi.org/10.1080/15710882.2015.1 081244
Lingel, J. y Regan, T. (2014). “It’s in your Spinal Cord, It’s in Your Fingertips”: Practices of Craft in Building Software. Cscw’14, 295-304.
Literat, I. y Balsamo, A. (2014). Stitching the Future of the AIDS Quilt: The Cultural Work of Digital Memorials. Visual Commu- nication Quarterly, 21(3), 138-149. http://doi. org/10.1080/15551393.2014.955500
Marcus, G. (2014). Prototyping and Contemporary Anthropological Experiments With Ethno- graphic Method. Journal of Cultural Economy, 7(January), 399-410. http://doi.org/10.1080/17 530350.2013.858061
Pérez Bustos, T. y Franco-Avellaneda, M. (2014). Embroidering self-knowledge. En Proceedings of the 13th Participatory Design Conference on Short Papers, Industry Cases, Workshop Descriptions, Doctoral Consortium papers, and Keynote abstracts - PDC ’14 - volume 2 (pp. 99-102). New York: ACM Press. http://doi. org/10.1145/2662155.2662173
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Psarra, A. (2015). Embroidered Bits. Afroditi Psa- rra. Recuperado de http://afroditipsarra.com/ index.php?/workshops/embroidered-bits/
Ram, S. (2015). Digital preservation of traditional handicraft design of Himachal Pradesh: A digital library model. 2015 4th International Symposium on Emerging Trends and Techno- logies in Libraries and Information Services, ETTLIS 2015 - Proceedings (pp. 91-94). Noida: IEEE. http://doi.org/10.1109/ETT- LIS.2015.7048178
Reitsma, L., Smith, A. y van den Hoven, E. (2013). StoryBeads: Preserving Indigenous Knowledge through Tangible Interaction Design. En 2013 International Conference on Culture and Computing (pp. 79–85). Kyoto: IEEE. http://doi.org/10.1109/CultureCom- puting.2013.22
Rosner, D. K. y Ryokai, K. (2008a). Spyn: Aug- menting the Creative and Communicative Potential of Craft. En UbiComp’08 (pp. 340–349). New York, Seoul, Korea: ACM.
Rosner, D. K. y Ryokai, K. (2008b). Weaving Memories into Handcrafted Artifacts with Spyn. En CHI’08. Interactivity Submission. Florencia: CHI.
Rosner, D., Roccetti, M. y Marfia, G. (2014). The Digitization of Cultural Practices. Commu- nications of the ACM, 57(6), 82-87. http://doi. org/10.1145/2602695.2602701
Steen, M. (2015). Upon Opening the Black Box and Finding It Full: Exploring the Ethics in Design Practices. Science, Technology & Human Values, 40(3), 389-420. http://doi. org/10.1177/0162243914547645
Suchman, L. (2002). Located accountabilities in technology production. Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, 14(2), 91-105. Recuperado de http://aisel.aisnet.org/sjis/vol14/iss2/7
Suchman, L. (2009). Agencies in Technology Design: Feminist Reconfigurations. En 5th European Symposium on Gender & ICT - Digital Cultures: Participation - Empowerment - Diversity. Bremen: University of Bremen.
How to Cite
Pérez Bustos, T. (2017). Stringing Together Digital Technologies and Artisanal Weaving or Sewing Processes: A Critical Practice Review. Signo Y Pensamiento, 36(70), 14–34. https://doi.org/10.11144//Javeriana.syp36-70.htdp
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