Attempts, Failures, Trials and Errors. Notes on an exhibition of failed prototypes and rejected projects.
Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: In this paper, we present the history, the concept and the results of "Attempts, Failures, Trials and Errors" exhibition project which was first presented in the frame of Piksel Festival in Bergen, Norway (November 2017) and later on at "Salonul de Proiecte", Bucharest, Romania (February 2018).The project aimed to incite the e-textiles artists and designers to reflect upon the way they are engaging with their failures, as well as to the way in which they use these failures to better understand the context in which they are working and to continue to experiment.Our approach reverses the common R&D constructivist methods, by using deconstruction as a process of investigation in the field of wearable technologies and e-textiles.By questioning the ideas and the concepts of failure and success, the project puts an emphasis on art's capacity to be critical, while at the same time to poetically and self-ironically address contemporary challenges and concerns.
Source: The Design Journal
Authors: Tincuta Heinzel, Hillevi Munthe, Teresa Almeida, Corina Andor, Anca Badut, Camille Baker, Anna Biro, Shih Wei Chieh, Renata Gaui, Maria Paulina Gutierrez Arango, Shary Kock, Ebru Kurbak, Aline Martinez Santos, Ionut Patrascu, Veerle Pennock, Ioana Popescu, Zoran Popovici, Afroditi Psarra, Natacha Roussel, Annette Schmid, Kate Sicchio, Vitalii Shupliak, Rebecca Stewart, Milie John Tharakan, Giulia Tomasello, Bram van Waardenberg, Pauline Vierne, DZNR Design Studio
Institutions: Loughborough University, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, University of Oradea, University of Amsterdam, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism, University of Washington, Virginia Commonwealth University, Queen Mary University of London, Berlin University of the Arts
Language: English
Topic: Art, Technology, and Culture
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2947720255