Description
Textiles are a traditional site of feminist storytelling (Rosner, 2018). They bridge global feminist craft traditions from contemporary artist Faith Ringgold’s quilt series, Paj Ntaub story cloths, and Chilean Arpillera resistance quilts. Building on these traditions and layering them on top of site representation techniques, this research develops a methodological innovation of tufted textiles as landscape models. This presentation will present case studies to explore novel outcomes of textiles as an emergent feminist design method. Each case study begins with traditional design skills, beginning with site analysis through GIS, aerial photography, and long-term climate projections, and results in layering the data into maps. Each project translates this data into a tufted textile. The resulting landscape fiber models serve to map dynamic and soft ecological systems. In case studies, the haptic textiles as site model increases the available experiences of analysis and representation through multi-sensory perception (Driver and Spence, 1998).
