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The Black Geographic: Praxis, Resistance, Futurity Visual Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Chinelo L. Njaka
Published in Visual Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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“All the Ba-zooms Go” Dress (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 Kenna Libes
Fatness may be finding representation on the catwalk, but it has few friends in the museum. This article uses a case study of the Costume Institute alongside interviews with a variety of museum pro...
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In Memoriam Dress (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-21 Nazlı Alimen
Published in Dress: The Journal of the Costume Society of America (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Survival and social support networks: visual narratives of labour market integration among highly skilled African immigrants in Quebec Visual Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-17 Charles Gyan, Jen Hinkkala, Allan Kasapa
Despite the growing presence of highly skilled African immigrants in Quebec, Canada, there is a paucity of research on their adaptation processes, specifically regarding survival and social support...
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Moving boundaries: visual sociology meets border studies Visual Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-14 Luc Pauwels
This essay aims to raise awareness among visual scholars of the multidisciplinary study of borders as a very promising and varied topic of inquiry, particularly when considering the various ways in...
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For the People Dress (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-17 Sarah Scaturro
The conservation field has recently experienced a significant paradigm shift called “peoples-based” conservation, which centers collaboration with communities for whom cultural heritage has meaning...
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Fresh Fly Fabulous: 50 Years of Hip Hop Style Dress (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-07 Dr. Karen Turman
Published in Dress: The Journal of the Costume Society of America (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Historical Perspectives on Sustainable Dress: Inspiration for Change (2nd edition) Dress (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-07 Sara Wilcox
Published in Dress: The Journal of the Costume Society of America (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Homes that house precarity: a visual essay on capturing an eco-dystopian reality Visual Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-10 V.K. Karthika
This visual essay, analysing a series of photographs curated by Indian photographer K.R. Sunil, explores how climate change leads to human precarity, triggering feelings of economic, psychological,...
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Rethinking fashion photography: reconstructing identities, decolonising bodies and resistance in postcolonial Morocco Visual Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Omar Moumni
Fashion photography in Moroccan magazines, newspapers and social media finds a favourable environment to incubate, develop and theorise on Moroccan cultural identity. Such areas of fashion photogra...
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‘How I edit my Instagram images’: investigating skilled vision in the work of YouTube’s lifestyle-content creators Visual Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Ida Roivainen
Woman social media content creators’ visual expertise is ill understood and arguably overlooked. Through the example of lifestyle-creators, this article explores the ways they plan, produce, and lo...
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Textures: The History and Art of Black Hair Dress (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Jaleesa Reed
Published in Dress: The Journal of the Costume Society of America (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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‘Rhetoric’ in the design process: The role of prop-based virtual reality storytelling in user-centred product conceptual design The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Qing Gong, Zihao Wang, Yucong Chen, Ning Zou
This paper explores how prop-based virtual reality storytelling (VR&P-ST) can enhance user-centred product conceptual design (UCPCD) by the perspective of ‘computing with things’. The study introdu...
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Concept-space analysis through architectural discourses The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Gamze Atay, Altay Çolak
This study aims to reveal the concepts that constitute space through architectural discourses. Within the scope of this study, a conceptual reading model has been developed based on theoretical and...
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Promoting the social interaction in a historical community through participatory planning and design: An empirical study in Rural China The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Yubin Xu
Public participation in heritage conservation is an area that lacks proper investigation in the urban planning and design discipline. To address this gap, this paper presents an empirical study of ...
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The patchwork method: on David Redmon and Ashley Sabin Visual Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Nace Zavrl
Published in Visual Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Design-led solutions for reducing airline food waste: A participatory approach to develop behaviour change interventions The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-23 Fangzhou You, Tracy Bhamra, Debra Lilley, Nikki Clark
Airline food waste is a critical issue which is affected by passenger behaviour. In parallel with the unexpected advent of COVID-19, passengers have exhibited changes in eating behaviour, generatin...
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Engagement and creativity in gamified remote co-design workshops: A comparison experimental study The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Ziheng Zhang, Rui Patricio, Francesco Zurlo, Gianluca Carella
The co-design approach is increasingly popular in facilitating the interchange of knowledge among multiple stakeholders. However, a new challenge emerged during the post-pandemic era when working f...
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Measures affecting driving safety and experience in the era of semi-autonomous driving: In-vehicle interaction design toolkit The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Ye Zhou, Ying Jiang
Semi-autonomous driving technology has rapidly advanced, enhancing driver convenience and comfort. However, ensuring driving safety remains a critical challenge for autonomous vehicle development. ...
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Dressing Up: A History of Fancy Dress in Britain Dress (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-24 Margot Rashba
Published in Dress: The Journal of the Costume Society of America (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Introduction to transmedia adaptations of literary “classics” in 20th–21st-century artistic expression Word & Image (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-23 Jennifer Boum Make, Verena R. Kick
Published in Word & Image: A Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry (Vol. 40, No. 1, 2024)
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“Adaptation Studies”: steps towards a necessary re-foundation Word & Image (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-23 Guy Spielmann
Although “Adaptation Studies” appears to constitute a fully fledged disciplinary field, with a solid theoretical base resting on a well understood and precisely defined phenomenon, it has struggled...
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Adapting Kafka Word & Image (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-23 Carsten Strathausen
This essay examines the metamorphic nature of Franz Kafka’s writing. I focus in particular on the unpublished manuscripts Kafka left behind, which reveal the structural instability of his texts and...
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“When I’m a Human Being”: race, bodies, and power in Disney’s adaptations of “The Frog King or Iron Henry” Word & Image (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-23 Brandy E. Wilcox
In the summer of 2020, Walt Disney Theme Parks announced plans to reimagine the popular attraction “Splash Mountain” in the theme of the 2009 feature-length animated film The Princess and the Frog....
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Book to screen and back again—Dany Laferrière and (re)writing “Vers le sud” Word & Image (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-23 Timothy Lomeli
This article examines the 2005 film adaptation of Dany Laferrière’s 1997 collection La Chair du maître, entitled Vers le sud, directed by Laurent Cantet. In La Chair du maître, Laferrière writes sh...
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Lupin (2021) in the shadow of Maurice Leblanc: the adaptation that wasn’t Word & Image (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-23 Dorothée Polanz
This essay analyzes the Netflix-produced French series Lupin dans l’ombre d’Arsène, showing the exhaustion of the fidelity question. In fact, the television show is not so much an updated transmedi...
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Delta voices of climate crisis: Community Digital Storytelling in Bangladesh and Vietnam Visual Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Angelos Theocharis
This article explores the audiovisual research method Community Digital Storytelling (CDST) as developed for a project documenting Indigenous delta voices in Bangladesh and Vietnam. Centred on the ...
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Developing an explanatory hypothesis for urban graphic heritage through the observation of physical traces The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Robert G. Harland
Urban graphic heritage has recently come to the fore connected to cities’ economic, social, cultural, and environmental development through design. This paper charts the development of urban graphi...
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Making sense of methods and approaches to user involvement The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Sampsa Hyysalo, Mikael Johnson
There has been a dramatic growth in the ways of involving users in various product, service, space, and systems development activities. Various categorizations, listings, and mappings have been pro...
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Using Generative AI Midjourney to Enhance Divergent and Convergent Thinking in an Architect’s Creative Design Process The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Linus Tan, Max Luhrs
Architects use a range of tools, from the traditional pencil to Virtual Reality technologies to prototype and articulate their creative designs. In recent years, Generative Artificial Intelligence ...
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The role of design in society The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Wei Liu
Published in The Design Journal: An International Journal for All Aspects of Design (Vol. 27, No. 3, 2024)
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Art on the chain? On the possibilities of new media art preservation on the Web3 Digital Creativity (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Luis D. Rivero Moreno
The absence of clear protocols in the conservation of new media art has led to a situation of extreme precariousness of digital artworks. The irruption of blockchain culture and NFTs seems to offer...
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Issue Information The International Journal of Art & Design Education (IF 1.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-08
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Embodying Art – How We See, Think, Feel, and Create Visual Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Orsolya Bajusz
Published in Visual Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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, virtual reality embodying philosophical and conceptual heritage Digital Creativity (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-05 Hyun Jean Lee, Wonjean Lee
In this paper, we introduce the project, which is based on Sunghaksipdo (聖學十圖). Known as the Ten Diagrams on Sage Learning, Sunghaksipdo was a heritage created by Toegye, the Kore...
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Preserving the ephemeral: A visual typology of augmented reality filters on Instagram Visual Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 L.A. Miller
Augmented reality filters allow users of popular social media sites such as Instagram to change their appearance through the application of digital overlays that adhere to the user’s face. The inst...
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Letter from the Editor Dress (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Dr. Einav Rabinovitch-Fox
Published in Dress: The Journal of the Costume Society of America (Vol. 50, No. 1, 2024)
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Managing and Negotiating: Approaches to Quality Work in Clothing and Textiles Companies Fashion Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Maarit Aakko, Kirsi Niinimäki
This qualitative study examines how various clothing companies approach quality and integrate it in their strategy and operations. It highlights the work required for reaching and maintaining a cer...
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Dolors project: art-based polyethnography evoking contemporary rural mothering through photography, dance and chapbooks Visual Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Eva Carreras, Ricard Espelt, Iris Muñoz, Enric Senabre Hidalgo
This collaborative ethnography details the Dolors project, a transdisciplinary exploration that evokes rural mothering in Copons, Catalonia, through an immersive photographic process. The project c...
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A product language-mediated concept construction model from the perspective of conceptual metaphor The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Pengyu Du, Kin Wai Michael Siu, Yi-Teng Shih
In product design practice, the user experience is directly related to the concepts that users interpret in the product language. Therefore, the designer’s ability to construct concepts through pro...
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Developing Shape Change-Based Fashion Prototyping Strategies: Enhancing Computational Thinking in Fashion Practice and Creativity Fashion Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Xinyi Huang, Sarah Kettley, Sophia Lycouris
Emerging technologies enable fluid and versatile material forms of fashionable wearables and e-textiles, with experts in engineering and material science proposing numerous strategies for dynamic t...
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Questions of behaviour, humanity, and practice The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Noël Palomo-Lovinski
Published in The Design Journal: An International Journal for All Aspects of Design (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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How to measure the human value awareness of design students? The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Shadi Kheirandish, Matthias Rauterberg
We designed Value Awareness Measurement (VAM) to know how much design students know about human values and how they estimate their awareness of this concept. VAM is a questionnaire with four scales...
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The ‘right’ place to age? Exploring age-friendly and diversity-sensitive design in a super-diverse neighbourhood The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Micheline Phlix, Ruth Stevens, Jan Vanrie, An-Sofie Smetcoren, Ann Petermans
The neighbourhood is a significant place for older adults in later life, especially given their strong wish to age in place, pointing to the importance of age-friendly design that accommodates olde...
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Visual depictions of the Polish–German border: a quantitative analysis of visual dimension of bordering practices Visual Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Łukasz Rogowski, Przemysław Rura, Adam Rybak
We find both the quantitative approach to (de)bordering practices research and visual studies about the Polish-German border relatively underdeveloped. This paper aims at filling methodological and...
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Interconnectedness, place and growth: a visual essay on transformative learning Visual Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Amy West, Helen Caldwell, Helen Tiplady, Emma Whewell
In this visual essay, personal growth, experienced by the authors, is explored and communicated through combined images and words. A theoretical framework – that of Mezirow’s (1994. “Understanding ...
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The politics of interaction and spect-actors in world rescue, eco, and plasticity: a Boalian perspective on digital environmental games Digital Creativity (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Jihay Park
In this paper, I explore the politics of engagement in environmental games from a political theatre theory perspective. Specifically, I focus on digital environmental games developed with classroom...
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Stella Blum Grant Research Article Dress (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Lynda May Xepoleas, Denise Nicole Green
The Iroquois Indian Groups, a series of six life-size dioramas intended to represent different aspects of Hodinǫhsǫ́:nih (Haudenosaunee, formerly referred to as Iroquois in previous literature) lif...
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Easiness and amount. Contribution of digitalization to the act of listening and its possibilities Digital Creativity (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-06 Daniel Torras i Segura
This research focuses on the social-spatial relationship between device and subject and identifies the possibilities that digital technology lets listeners perform as listening modalities, such as ...
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A study on the intention of upper limb hemiplegic patients to use interactive gaming devices for hand rehabilitation The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Chujun Yang, Chih-Fu Wu, Jingyan Wang, Wen-Chi Chen, Haoyen Chang, Dan Dan Xu
Investigating stroke patients with hemiplegia, this study explores how various pre-factors and personal characteristics influence their intention to use interactive gaming devices (IGDs) for hand r...
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Glamour Labor in the USSR Dress (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Alina Osokina
Unlike contemporary fashion models who benefit from powerful tools of self-branding and self-promotion such as the Internet and social media, Soviet mannequins in the 1960s and 1970s operated withi...
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Signs of change: community, collective action, and gentrification in Brooklyn, New York Visual Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Judith R. Halasz
This photo-documentary project captures unofficial signs posted on the streets of central Brooklyn, New York to explore how community members engage with each other during a recent period of intens...
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A sad tree: visualising ecological emotions through bodies in place Visual Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Chloe Watfern, Marthy Watson, Barbara Doran, Priya Vaughan
In this time of climate and ecological crisis, we engaged with young people and their families to articulate feelings in and about the natural world. Our research question: how might the arts-based...
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Designing technology for smart and sustainable cities of tomorrow – What can we learn from IPCC’s sixth assessment report? The Design Journal (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Teija Vainio
Since their emergence, technologies have been applied to sustainable development in urban contexts. However, as the pace of climate change is still rapidly increasing, the question remains: what ar...
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Understanding children’s use of a mobile digital storytelling app Digital Creativity (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Young Sang Cho, Jiwoo Hong, Woohun Lee
Storytelling plays an important role in early childhood education. Advances in digital technology have allowed storytelling to expand into shared and collaborative experiences. While mobile apps ha...
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A photographic essay on socio-economic organisation – temporary shelters in Kelowna, British Columbia (Canada) Visual Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Roger Sugden, Marcela Valania
The essay considers socio-economic organisation from the perspective of monopoly capitalism analysis, a strand of heterodox economics. The centre-piece of the essay is a photographic study of two t...
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Ring this bell if you want to save our planet Visual Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Hamish Stewart
‘Ring This Bell if You Want to Save Our Planet’ is a visual essay that explores the impact of Covid-19 restrictions on the Lower Lea Valley in East London. Its focus is to observe the impact on the...
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Intimate Apparel Challenges and Consumer Satisfaction among Female and Non-binary People with Disabilities: An Exploratory Study to Formulate Future Research Opportunities Fashion Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Kerri McBee-Black, Md. Rafiqul Islam Rana, Halimat Ipaye, Jia Wu, Cali Burns
Adaptive intimate apparel is an emerging market that has yet to gain traction in the apparel marketplace. Female and non-binary individuals with disabilities (FNBIWDs) are the largest minority grou...
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Social Fabric: Art and Activism in Contemporary Brazil Visual Studies (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Lizi Anderson-Cleary
Published in Visual Studies (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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DIY Shoe Sewing in a Developed Economy: Behind the Motivation to Sew Shoes at Home Fashion Practice (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Lucie Sara Zavodna, Jan Zavodny Pospisil, Lucie Trejtnarova
This study seeks to identify and understand the motivation of people who sew shoes for themselves or their family members at home. Qualitative analysis of in-depth data from online semi-structured ...