Conference Program

ENMESHED: ARCHITECTURE AND TEXTILES IN CONTEMPORARY DESIGN PRACTICE

September 24-25, Konstfack/University College of Art, Crafts and Design, Stockholm

Friday, September 24

            2:30      Opening remarks

3:00     Keynote Address

            Susan Yelavich, Parsons The New School for Design, New York

Petrified Curtains, Animated Architextiles

4:00     Petra Blaisse, Inside Outside, Amsterdam

            Lecture: Shifting Position

Film Screening:  “Movements Continued, Shifted Room: A Portrait of the work of Petra Blaisse/Inside Outside”

Saturday, 25 September

            9:30     Coffee

Session I: Pliable Planes

10:00    Sylvie Krüger,  Munich

            Textile Architecture   

10:30   Ulrika Mårtensson, Stockholm

            Textile: More than Two Dimensions/Textile: a Multi-dimensional Love Story

11:00   Discussion

           12:00 Lunch Break

Session II: Smart & Soft

2:00     Rachel Wingfield, Loop.pH, London

            ArchiLace:  Ecomimetic Space Design

2:30     Patricia Gruits, Kennedy & Violich, Boston

            Going SOFT

3:00     Discussion

Session III: Binary Structures

3:30     David Serero, Serero Architectes, Paris
            Context

           

4:00     Mette Ramsgard Thomsen, CITA, Copenhagen

            Textiles as a transformative media
 

4:30     Discussion and concluding remarks

Conference Participant Information

The following designers, architects, historians, and theorists will present at Enmeshed:

Petra Blaisse, Inside Outside, Amsterdam

Patricia Gruits, Kennedy & Violich Architects, Boston

Sylvie Krüger, designer and author Textile Architecture, Munich (Jovis, 2009)

Ulrika Mårtensson, architect and textile designer, Stockholm

David Serero, Serero Architectes, Paris

Mette Ramsgard Thomsen, Director, CITA, Royal Danish School of Fine Arts School of Architecture, Copenhagen

Rachel Wingfield, Loop.pH, London

Susan Yelavich, Parsons/The New School for Design, New York

Conference Description

Enmeshed: Architecture and Textiles in Contemporary Design Practice, is
a multidisciplinary conference exploring the relationship between textiles and textile technology and contemporary architecture and design. Practitioners from textile design, architecture, and interior design, as well as related historians and theoreticians will converge to present perspectives on this topic with the goal of expanding our understanding of the connections between architecture and textiles.

Confirmed speakers include Petra Blaisse (director, Inside Outside, Amsterdam), Patricia Gruits (Kennedy & Violich, Boston), Sylvie Krüger (author, Textile Architecture, 2009), Ulrika Mårtensson, Architect and Textile Designer (Stockholm), Mette Ramsgard Thomsen (CITA/Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture, Copenhagen), David Serero (Serero Architectes, Paris), Rachel Wingfield (Loop.pH and Textile Futures Research Group, UK), and Susan Yelavich (Parsons, New York).

Attendance is free and on a first-come first-served basis.

Enmeshed is a collaboration between CuratorLab and the Department of Design, Crafts and Textile Art at Konstfack, and is supported by grants from Nordic Culture Point and the Estrid Ericson Stiftelse.

Konstfack.se/enmeshed/

For more information contact Alexa Griffith Winton: agwinton@gmail.com

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