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Hybrid heads : a decoding method to design open narratives and dynamic identities

Title

Hybrid heads : a decoding method to design open narratives and dynamic identities / Daniela Dossi.

Author

Dossi, Daniela

Publication

Rotterdam : Nai010 Publishers, [2019]
©2019

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Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Text	Use in library	TS2181.B42 G443 2019g	Off-site

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Design Museum Gent, host institution.

Description

1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color); 30 cm +

Summary

Headdresses and coverings are among the most powerful vehicles of cultural identity, referring variously to nationality, gender, ethnicity, religion, profession and sub-culture. As part of a cultural identity, they can be used to distinguish or divide people, but may also serve as a constructive instrument that allows us to recognise mutual differences as a common value.0Cultural identity is continuously evolving. Photos and texts provide a vehicle to question prevailing dynamics of identity and identification, visual stereotypes and cultural representation. Daniela Dossi's long-term residency at the open and collective studio Manoeuvre, a multidisciplinary artist-run space in Ghent's Rabot neighbourhood, resulted in an open design method, a textile research project based on a visual and textual archive of headdresses from around the world, and a preliminary collection of hybrid headdresses. The super-diversity of the studio provided the ideal context for this research. Together with Dossi, participants from diverse backgrounds and origins made 800 textile samples by hand using different techniques. Based on this open system, new hybrid headdresses and narratives can be designed by remixing images, texts and textiles: what might the headdress of the first Mexican, female President of the United States look like, for example? 'Hybrid Heads' is a project by Daniela Dossi and Manoeuvre. It is also an exhibition, an interactive installation, a web platform and a design-educational programme.

Alternative Title

Decoding method to design open narratives and dynamic identities

Subject

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

Published in conjunction with an exhibition at Design Museum, Ghent, Belgium, April 5-June 10, 2019.
Includes 30 inserted photographic portraits on cards.

ISBN

9462085129
9789462085121

LCCN

99991224766

OCLC

on1096494429
1096494429
SCSB-14225374

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries