von Saint-George, Amalie. Die Kunst der Goldstickerei. Nebst einer Anleitung zur Verwendung der Goldstickerei in Verbindung mit Application. Wien: Verlag der Wiener Mode, 1890
PHASE 4 | Counterfactual Futures – part 2 | 6 Months, January 2016 – June 2016
PHASE 3 | Counterfactual Futures – part 1| 6 Months, July 2015 – December 2015
Literature: Made in China by Pun Ngai
Ngai, Pun. Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2005.
Literature: In Other Worlds by Margaret Atwood
Atwood, Margaret. In Other Worlds: Science Fiction and the Human Imagination. London: Virago, 2012.
Expert Exchange: Mark Miodownik
Mark Miodownik is a materials engineer and Professor of Materials and Society at UCL. He is the author of the award winning best selling book Stuff Matters, a guide to the material world, and the science, history, engineering, and culture that underpins it. He is also the regular presenter of the science and engineering BBC TV programmes. Miodownik was recently included in the The Times list of the top 100 most influential people in UK science. In 2013 he won the Royal Academy of Engineering Rooke Medal. In 2014 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and he won the Royal Society Winton Prize.
PHASE 2 | Macro-Electronics | 6 Months, January 2015 – June 2015
Literature: Stuff Matters by Mark Miodownik
Miodownik, Mark. Stuff Matters: The Strange Stories of the Marvellous Materials That Shape Our Man-made World. London: Penguin Books, 2014.
PHASE 1 | Crafting Realities | 6 Months, July 2014 – December 2014
Literature: The Culture of Craft by Peter Dormer (Ed.)
Dormer, Peter (Ed.) The Culture of Craft: status and future. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1997
Literature: The Invention of Craft by Glenn Adamson
Adamson, Glenn. The Invention of Craft. London [u.a.]: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013
Literature: Women’s Work by Elizabeth Wayland Barber
Barber, E. J. W. Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early times. New York: Norton, 1994.
Literature: On Craftsmanship by Christopher Frayling
Frayling, Christopher. On Craftsmanship: towards a new Bauhaus. London: Oberon Books, 2011
Literature: Zeros + Ones by Sadie Plant
Plant, Sadie. Zeros and Ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture. London: Fourth Estate, 1997.
Stitching Worlds - Kickoff