Description
Contemporary costume design has a sustainability problem due to the extensive usage of materials developed by petrochemical processes that cause damage to the natural environment and its inhabitants, including the oil-based synthetic colourants currently favoured in the industry. How might less harmful, biobased sources of colour replace some of the toxic synthetic colourants? What creative potential and insights can such biobased material engagement effect?In this session I will present and reflect on the application of in-situ colouring with Beta vulgaris, the beetroot vegetable, as a potential method and material for costume design. Here, havoc - disorder and confusion - emerges as a creative force towards the reorientation of my costume design praxis where material circularity, aesthetic unpredictability and messiness become premises for the material approach.
My doctoral research ‘BioCostume: Experimental Costume Design with Biobased Co-Actants’ (2020-) is located at the intersection of contemporary costume design, systems thinking and biobased material development; of aesthetics and ethics. It explores how ecologically informed material practice in costume design can contribute towards new perceptions and understandings of material agency, where ecologically responsible and accountable praxis is considered a value with implications beyond the performance itself. As doctoral candidate at Aalto ARTS I am affiliated with the research groups Costume in Focus and Fashion/Textile Futures, and I worked in the Research Council of Finland funded research project BioColour – Biobased Dyes and Pigments for Colour Palette 2020-2022. My supervising professors are Dr. Sofia Pantouvaki and Dr. Kirsi Niinimäki, my thesis advisors are Dr. Julia Lohmann and Dr. Tanja Beer (external).
| Aikajakso | 23 toukok. 2024 |
|---|---|
| Tapahtuman otsikko | ELO Research Day |
| Tapahtuman tyyppi | Conference |
| Sijainti | Espoo, SuomiNäytä kartalla |
| Tunnustuksen arvo | International |