This book weaves together disparate worlds of crafting, social
justice, and digital technologies around The Partnership Quilt. It
crafts a manifesto for meaningful action and design processes in
charitable organizations through participatory sewing and its
digital augmentation. The book charts a history of how sewing has
been used to voice concerns of oppression, and how digital
technologies can be embedded into textiles to tell stories more
powerfully. It explores the relationship between quilting and
research, looking beyond the seams of The Partnership Quilt to shed
light on the importance of invisible work behind such
participatory, justice-oriented design projects. It concludes with
a discussion of the impacts and potential future avenues for
research on digitally quilting social justice. "This book is an
excellent offering that highlights ways in which visual approaches
to research and community work can serve as a canvas for the
outpouring of oppression, anger, hope, resilience and reimagining
of a socially just future. It is a great gift and valuable resource
for academics, activists and students interested in social justice,
participatory action research, and digital technologies." -Puleng
Segalo, Professor, University of South Africa, SA "This expansive
undertaking exhibits Strohmayer's force as a thinker, author, and
partner in design. From the soldering of electrodes through the
review on craft-based activism, Strohmayer generously takes us
through a design process from start to finish to examines the
relationships that shift along the way. She shows us how worlds of
textiles partake in the making of collective futures-nurturing
forms of connection as a means of creative expression,
self-determination, and remembrance." -Daniela Rosner, Associate
Professor, Human Centered Design & Engineering, University of
Washington, USA "This book is a highlight for the courageous minds
to break the circle and re-think artistic practices as a more
justice-oriented, connected and collaborative mechanisms for our
futures. You will have a journey to face who and what forms of
designs were privileged or silenced in the global history of
quilting. You will be inspired and provoked by the making of the
Partnership Quilt. The quilt piece is the materialized example that
embodies the many ways of touchy-feely conversations and the
possibilities to weave, stitch -or this time to quilt new worlds
together. This book is about the making of artistic hope. It is
about what is possible, once we see the beauty of equity instead of
privileges in design." -OEzge Subasi, Futurewell, Assistant
Professor, Department of Media and Visual Arts, Koc University,
Turkey "The Partnership Quilt is a powerful example of the
transformative power of craftivism. In this book Dr Angelika
Strohmayer pragmatically illustrates how carefully considered
participatory craft based projects empower those involved,
value-add to the important work being done by NGO's and provide
researchers with a methodology that supports and promotes social
justice outcomes." -Dr Tal Fitzpatrick, Artist, Craftivist and
Disability Support Worker, Naarm (Melbourne), Australia ''The
Partnership Quilt, as a model of participatory textile making,
draws together relational expertise from the distinct worlds of
communication technologies, crafting and ecologies of care. With a
focus on collaboration, Strohmayer experiments with the quilt as a
metaphor for a layered, interdisciplinary research process as well
as a material expression of carefully crafted relationships between
makers, researchers, charitable organisations and a marginalised
group of sex workers. This richly detailed and insightful book is a
timely addition to a growing literature around participatory
textile making advocating for interdisciplinary practices that
address the care and maintenance of people's lived experiences.''
-Dr Emma Shercliff, Arts University Bournemouth, UK
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