Sensoaesthetics: Introducing alternative embodied material expressions in textile and fashion

Fashion is primarily a visual ontology consisting of definitions, theory, and methods that are based on visual language. The workshop Sensoaesthetics: Introducing alternative embodied material expressions in textile and fashion is a part of a three-year research project, Sonic Fashion (funded by the Swedish Research Council, 2022-2024).
The project aims to expand the discourse of fashion by approaching it from a new and very different—sonic—perspective wherein sound
is considered not as a negative aspect, but as a potential source of a new theory and facilitator of the evolution of new methods.
The proposed workshop aims to (i) introduce participants to experimental inclusive aesthetics and (ii) expand the vocabularies of material definition - analyzing and defining them by using five experiential levels: functional, sensorial, interpretive, affective and performative. The workshop invites participants from a whole host
of design fields and people with a visual impairment to co-create together within sensitizing exercises and sonic design prototyping to develop more inclusive ways of designing, defining, and representing textile and fashion artifacts.