Participatory Textile Design – Getting Everybody More Involved

This lecture introduced case studies of participatory research methods, which invite community engagement in order to enhance textile design practice. Participatory design has been successfully used as a design method in urban and product design. Textile designers can adapt and expand these methods for their own practice in order to create more empathetic design solutions.

Threads and Yarns, an intergenerational textile project exploring personal accounts of health and well-being was set up as part of the Wellcome Trust’s 75th anniversary programme. Local senior residents engaged in creative making workshops and talked about their biomedical histories. The project demonstrated how communal crafting can be used as a cross-disciplinary activity.

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