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This book explores the intersections between wearable objects and human health, with particular emphasis on how artists and designers are creatively responding to and rethinking these relations. Addressing a rich range of wearable artefacts, from mobility aids and prosthetics to clothing and accessories to digital health tracking devices, its themes include care and cure; wellness culture and the commoditization of health; and the complex interactions between (human) bodies and (non-human) objects. With a theoretical framework inspired by the work of materialist thinkers including Sherry Turkle, Bruno Latour and Jane Bennett, and bringing the disciplinary fields of fashion studies, art and design practice, and medical and health humanities into dialogue for the first time, this volume draws attention to the complex agencies entangled in the things we wear, and situates fashion and art in relation to broader cultural and historical contexts of health, illness and disability. Dawn Woolley is an artist and Research Fellow at Leeds Arts University, UK. Her book Consuming the Body: Capitalism, Social Media and Commodification was published in 2023. Recent solo exhibitions include Joy and Revolution: Rebel Selves at Diskurs Gallery, Berlin (2023); and Consumed: Stilled Lives at bildkultur Gallery, Stuttgart (2022) and Perth Centre for Photography, Australia (2021). Fiona Johnstone is Assistant Professor in Visual Medical Humanities at Durham University, UK. She is the author ofAIDS& Representation (2023) and the co-editor of Anti-Portraiture(2020) and Art & the Critical Medical Humanities (forthcoming). Ellen Sampson is an artist and Senior Research Fellow in Design at Northumbria University, UK. Her book Worn: Footwear Attachment and the Affects of Wear was published in 2020. She is co-founder of the Fashion Research Network, an interdisciplinary network for scholars working on fashion, textiles and dress. Paula Chambers is Subject Leader in Fine Art at Leeds Arts University, UK. Recent exhibitions include Inconvenient Bodies at Hoek Contemporary, Berlin (2023) and Material Nomads as part of Momentum 12, Moss, Norway (2023). She has chapters included in Feminist Art Activisms and Artivisms (2020), Feminist Visual Activism and the Body (2021) and An Artist and a Mother (2023).

Table of Contents:

• Intro
• Contents
• Notes on Contributors
• List of Figures
• Chapter 1: Wearable Objects and Curative Things
• 1.1 Introduction
• 1.2 About This Book
• 1.3 Curative Things
• 1.4 Capitalist Cures
• References
• Collaborating: Dawn Woolley
• Chapter 2: On Crutches, Choreography and (Crip) Care: Curative Objects and Palliative Things in Two Performance Pieces
• 2.1 Curative/Palliative
• 2.2 Objects/Things
• 2.3 Crutches and agōn: bODY_rEMIX/gOLDBERG_vARIATIONS
• 2.4 Crutches and Care: The Way You Look (at me) Tonight
• 2.5 Conclusion
• References
• Chapter 3: Breaking the Fall
• References

• Chapter 4: Sitting Pretty: A Dress History of the L-Shaped Frame, the Side-Saddle Habit and the Design of Adaptive Wearables
• 4.1 For a Dress History of Sitting: Introduction
• 4.2 Sitting Down and Dressing Down: Observations from Recent History
• 4.3 Putting the L-Shape on, and above, the Table: Examples from Dress History
• 4.4 Riding Aside and Riding Up: Challenges of Designing and Wearing the Side-Saddle Habit
• 4.5 Design Challenge 1: The L-Shaped Frame
• 4.6 Design Challenge 2: Unseating
• 4.7 Shapes of Things to Come: Dress History Meets Inclusive and Adaptive Design
• References
• Chapter 5: The Itches: Embodiment and Distributed Meaning in the Age of Technological Entanglement
• 5.1 Introduction
• 5.2 Methodological Paradoxes: Edges, Essences, and Distributions
• 5.3 Corporeality of Absence: Gaps, Wounds, and Scars
• 5.4 Siloying of Senses: Skin, Sensors, and Synaesthesia
• 5.5 Acephalic Bodies: Heads, Brains, and Smart Devices
• 5.6 Distributed Attachments: Cyborgs, Joints, and Entanglements
• 5.7 Prosthetic Intimacies: Screens, Wings, and Sex Devices
• 5.8 Automated Ethics: Drones, Response-Abilities, and Military Algorithms
• 5.9 Conclusion
• References
• Covering: Ellen Sampson
• Chapter 6: Securing a Place in the Sun: Clothing, Exposure, and Health
• 6.1 Introduction
• 6.2 Everything Under the Sun
• 6.3 Selling the Sun
• 6.4 Material Improvements
• 6.5 Celanese and the Social Body
• 6.6 Light and Color
• 6.7 Conclusion
• References
• Chapter 7: Palliative Prototypes or Therapeutic Functionality? Examining C.P. Company's Urban Protection Range
• 7.1 Antecedents to the Urban Protection Range
• 7.2 The Anxious Future
• 7.3 C.P. Company and Moreno Ferrari
• 7.4 Object-Based Analysis of the Urban Protection Range
• 7.5 Air
• 7.6 Sound
• 7.7 Motion
• 7.8 The Future Past
• 7.9 Conclusion
• References
• Chapter 8: Skin and Textile Interaction and the Future of Fashion as Therapeutics
• 8.1 Introduction
• 8.2 The Skin Microbiome
• 8.3 Skin Health and Bio-Design
• 8.4 Skin II-Probiotic Clothing
• 8.5 Design Approaches
• 8.6 Conclusion
• References
• Controlling: Fiona Johnstone
• Chapter 9: Desire Lines: Quantified-Self-Portraits Produced with a Fitness Tracking Watch
• 9.1 Introduction
• 9.2 Quantified Selves
• 9.3 Embodied Practices and Quantified-Self-Portraits

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Contributors:

Woolley, Dawn , editor

Johnstone, Fiona , editor

Sampson, Ellen , editor

Chambers, Paula , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Series:

Palgrave studies in fashion and the body

Subjects:

Wearable technology — Health aspects

Fashion and art

Clothing and dress — Health aspects

Wearable technology

Clothing and dress

General Notes:

Includes index.
Description based on: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed December 13, 2023).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 343 pages) : illustrations.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

TK7882.W437 W437 2024eb

ISBNs:

9783031400179 (electronic bk.)
3031400178 (electronic bk.)
303140016X [Invalid]
9783031400162 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1411185444