Day 3 – Methodological Standards, Data Digitalization & Structuring

Producing clothes is a complex task that almost always includes an impressive fusion of diverse skills, elaborate strategies and creative thoughts. Consequently, a vast amount of wide-ranging information is archived in the material culture and other relevant sources related to the many functions of clothing and clothing production. However, carefully and systematically extracting those data from the sources is just the beginning. How can we structure the collected data to gain those interesting hidden insights that go far beyond an individual object or a specific group of sources? How can we create methodological and systematical standards to interlink our data? And how can we create adaptable and expandable structures to analyse, understand, communicate and exchange relevant information? This Track explores how to structure, digitalise and interlink data efficiently and, by doing so, to learn how to problem-solve, think creatively, and ask meaningful questions.

Furthermore, it intends to discuss how to wire data and our thoughts by extension. The keynote about the language of clothing and its sophisticated landscapes between poetry and mathematics will start on the third day and shed light on the multiple dimensions of dress in relation to the moving body. 

Further, we will explore textiles and their archived data from different viewpoints, presenting methods like scientific reconstruction, CT imaging and capturing motion, as well as giving the clothes extended context embodied in their materiality through various methodological approaches and perspectives.