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TEASER Nuno Nogueira’s PhD research project  Artistic Explorations in Pattern Design: The Imprint of the Skin on a Two-Dimensional Surface as a Process to Map a Body employs an unusual approach to represent a body, as a way to explore the porosity of pattern design to new/artistic processes. The project pivots around the idea that drawing a pattern is a processual pursuit that intends to consider the multidimensionality of the body by translating it visually – in order to make garments that will be inhabited by the body. By selecting the skin as an informant for designing a pattern, the project draws on the works of artists such as Trisha Brown (1936-2017), Yves Klein (1928-1962), and Aline Ribière (b. 1945) – who use(d) the whole body as an implement for drawing the body –, and on the concept of metonymy in action-art, put forward by art historian Kristine Stiles (1987; 1998), which proposes another type of relationship between artist and audience – or designer and user. The process, with its quality of contiguity between a body and a two-dimensional surface, collects visual data that enable to map a body surface.

Watch the video ­https://youtu.be/df0zfGxZ6gM

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Eager for knowledge (which was not limited to the area of Fashion), possessing a great sense of humor and incapable of crystallizing, I share a few words by my long-time friend, colleague and partner in crime Mário Matos Ribeiro that give an insight of his extraordinary sagacity (as a Project professor) and his dedication to teaching fashion design:

Lately, I share a major concern with a number of scholars about the future of fashion education regarding the way traditional teaching-learning patterns are crying out for change so they fully adapt to the current generation of students. That is why I am currently focused on creating and implementing alternative approaches that prove to be more engaging and interactive, [hoping] to contribute to the status quo and to the new paradigms posed by the Digital Age.

We accept the challenge, we continue your legacy.

Rest in peace, dear friend. Love you forever.

 

Ines Simoes coordinator of PATTERN-OLOGY

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Curated by Anabela Becho, the exhibition Viver a sua Vida, Georges Dambier e a Moda / Vivre sa Vie, Georges Dambier et la Mode is on display at the Museu Nacional do Traje (Largo Júlio de Castilho, Lisbon) from May 06 to October 30, 2022.

 

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 projeto Anabela Becho unfolding the pleats

Anabela Becho and Ines Simoes were selected to present Unfolding the Pleats: Madame Grès’ Self-portrait as a Dress (a) and Self-portraiture and the representation of the mobile body in pattern design (b), respectively, at the International Congress “Portraiture: representations and ways of being,” that takes place in Faculdade de Belas-Artes de Lisboa (Largo da Academia Nacional de Belas Artes 4), on November 7, 2018.

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Integrated in the festival ‘Estes romanos estão loucos,’ Museu de Lisboa-Teatro Romano hosts Roman Vanitas: Fashion In Rome’s Quotidian on September 15, 2018, at 4 p.m. (Rua de S. Mamede 3A), a lecture by Pattern-ology about the aesthetic, formal and technological dimensions of everyday fashion in Ancient Rome and the numerous ‘revisitations’ that emerged from the 19th century to nowadays.