**APPLICATIONS and IMPLICATIONS lecture by Oscar Tomico**
**Rethinking fashion and textiles through "interaction design"**
- Rethink what materials are. From designing products to designing material properties
- Rethinking how accesories fit. Negotiating design characteristics and working in ranges of possibility
- Rethink why garment production is like it is. Experimenting with socio-technical systems of production
- Rethink current "aesthetics". Challenge what currently is "good" design
**From close-to-the-body to on-the-body interactions**
- From close-to-the-body to on-the-body interactions
- Exploring an intimate and personal relation with technology
**Soft, embodied and situated actions**
- Embodied design ideation methods: analysing the performative power of estrangement (material, embodied and transcorporeal)
- Strategies for destabilization: re-contextualization, change of bodily sensations through artefacts, enactment, alteration of the material at hand
- Emerging knowledges: new material forms, new concepts, new behaviors in human bodies, living creatures, ecological systems, chemical agents & ...
- Soft, embodied and situated design actions for an interconnected, relational and transversal design research
- Interactive and open-ended RtD (processual). When just the material remains everything is possible. Me, Myself and I: the distracting power of the bosy. Being situated keeps the (personal) meaning
**1st person design research**
- 1st person research allows us to .... IMPORTANT submerge yourself in the making
- "Knowing", "crafting", augmenting", and "socio-political" bodies of knowledges are entangled and used indistinctively in 1PP design interventions
- 1PP design interventions deal with different temporalities. They relate past, present and future in a collaborative, generative and performative manner
- 1PP design interventions are relational and expansive by scaling up from our bodies to being with the material flows, community intra-relations, and socio-technical and environmental infrastructures
- 1PP design interventions supports affirmative creativity. Foregrounding thinking-with & making-with generates new situated ways of acting & knowing, looking at things, & being involved
- 1PP design interventions support decentering the g-human by displacing power relations and making yourself vulnerable, generating a complex systematics understanding of how things relate to ....
**Living-with & designing-with through cohabitation**
- Living-with & designing-with through cohabitation. A posthumanist approach to 1Person Research: non-representational practices & animating lifewords. New visions for Sustainable Design
- Cohabitation adds to sustainability by approaching worldmaking as collaborative survival through continuous engagement, attunement to everyday actions, and supporting expansion by means of growth and adaptation
- Living-with & designing-with through cohabitation as a form of 1st person research allows to experience the hybridity in our natureculture and unpack plant-human-computer interaction from a critical and ethical perspective
- Cohabitation allows to take a posthuman design approach by decentering the human of the design process and look at what are Living-with & designing-with as relational infrastructural arrangements based on interdependence and cooperation
- The multi-species collaborations emerging from cohabiting in an ecosystem can be considered as a series of symbiotic encounters, sharing space and resources
- Rethink visionary sustainable work in design by broadening up cohabitation practices, promoting biodiversity...
- Cohabitation through hybrid bodies. New habitabilities for radical interdependence
- Cohabitation through hybrid spaces. Regenerative Ecologies of design, production and use
- Cohabitation through hybrid environments. Posthuman sustainability and novel care practices
**Framing your project proposal**
## Fabrication files
- Support your thinking and ideas with trends in academic research
