Description
Currently, there is an intellectual and industry discourse that suggests the work of costume makers, the people who realize costumes for performance, is technologically static. This attitude limits investment in new equipment, training, and resourcing for this cohort. Going beyond this significant professional necessity, this discourse reflects deeply entrenched but frequently unconscious systematic gender biases in industry and academia that need to be exposed and addressed. This panel shares research from Technological Innovations in Costume Practice (TICP), an EU-funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow research project to be carried out in 2025 that investigates the structural and attitudinal factors that constrain and facilitate the integration of technological innovations in the work of costume makers.At this multi-speaker panel, I will share the project results while several costume practitioners who are responding to new technologies in their work, specifically Industrial 4.0 techs such as virtual patternmaking software and 3D printing will present their work. The panel highlights some of the value of these tools for costume practice, how people are currently implementing them in their workflow, and what the barriers and facilitators are for their further adoption. The panel will display the I4.0 technology's use, value, and complexity, and establish the crucial need for this research.
| Period | 25 Oct 2025 |
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| Event title | World Stage Design |
| Event type | Exhibition |
| Location | Sharjah, United Arab EmiratesShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |