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Dori
Design Anthropologist, engaged in civic design.
Interests: tai chi., reading, traveling
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Hi Steven, The project is not be lead by Beloit. It was Jennifer Esparaza's comment to me, which was the inspiration. She is writing about this in conference papers. But as a design anthropologist, I, Dori Tunstall, find it important to create the new images of possibility. The intent is to gather more images for an exhibition for if not this year's, maybe the next year's American Association for Anthropology meetings in which we can discuss the issue with publishers. Hi Cindi, If there is a gendered bias in images, it has to do with meeting the requirements of the original statement of "white women eating salad." It may be that since the participants were women, we were more interested in women's lives as the subject of anthropological inquiry, not gazing at women.
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Days 07 and 08 of the Swinburne + NID Design Anthropology workshop represented a shift in focus from NID in Ahmedabad to Kala Raksha in Tunda Vandh, Kutch, Gujarat. After an over night bus, we arrived at 6:30am in Bhuj. Tired and hungry, we got on a 14 person transporter... Continue reading
Posted May 18, 2015 at Living Blue
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Days 05 and 06 of the workshop were a series of excursions. Yesterday, a sub-group of the group went to see the Calico Museum of Textiles, one of the best textile museums in the world, and the Shreyas Folk Museum. Both created and sponsored by the Sarabhai family. We weren't... Continue reading
Posted May 16, 2015 at Living Blue
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Lesson 2 of the Transcultural Module looked at issues of appropriation and misappropriation. The students created an impressive list of the types of things that were appropriated in India and things that have been misappropriated from India. In distinguishing appropriation from misappropriation from each other, a key insight was made... Continue reading
Posted May 14, 2015 at Living Blue
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Day 3: After a lecture about secondary versus primary research, and secondary sources versus primary sources, the students prepared their team questions related to the context of working with the Kutch artisans of Kala Raksha. They then had to list out 10 assumptions they had about the question and track... Continue reading
Posted May 14, 2015 at Living Blue
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Day 02 of the Wenner-Gren Foundation sponsored Design Anthropology workshop focused on module two: Transcultural Aesthetics and Contemporary Design. The lecture introduced the two main concepts for the module. The first is Fernando Ortiz's (1945) concept of transculturation, which is about the processes of acculturation, de-culturation, and neo-culturation in Cuba.... Continue reading
Posted May 12, 2015 at Living Blue
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Day 01 of the Wenner-Gren Foundation sponsored workshop on Design Anthropology in India. The day consisted of a 1.5 hour lecture and 3 hour tutorial. The lecture provided an overview of the four week intensive program and the first lesson of the Research Methods for Design Anthropology module: Selecting a... Continue reading
Posted May 12, 2015 at Living Blue
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【北服民族服饰博物馆】“采蓝”——中印蓝染考察文献展 2014-10-13 北京服装学院“艺苑”期刊... Continue reading
Posted Oct 19, 2014 at Living Blue
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On Thursday, 10 July 2014 at 12:30pm, the students of China Central Academy of Fine Arts and Swinburne University of Technology presented their final designs from the Living Blue Indigo Workshop hosted by National Institute of Design--Ahmedabad. Continue reading
Posted Jul 12, 2014 at Living Blue
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The experimental ajrakh block prints of the China Central Academy of Fine Arts students. Continue reading
Posted Jul 12, 2014 at Living Blue
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National craft awardee Abduljabbar Mohammed Khatri and his son Ahmed Khatri came to NID to present a demonstration of traditional ajrakh block printing with natural dyes. It is the most amazing 14 step process. Continue reading
Posted Jul 12, 2014 at Living Blue
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Getting up at 4:00am, the group took a hired coach on a six hour ride to the village of Uravakonda, which is situated halfway between the urban centres of Hyderabad and Bangalore. In the village of Uravakonda lives Shri (Mr.) Yellappa, the 90-year old master dyer of natural indigo. Joining... Continue reading
Posted Jul 10, 2014 at Living Blue
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On Saturday 5 July, the group travelled to Hyderabad to visit three types of shops that sell natural indigo dyed cloth. Sakthi, our NID host, selected the three to provide us with the widest exposure to the selling of indigo dyed fabric. This would prepare us for the following day's... Continue reading
Posted Jul 10, 2014 at Living Blue
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Today, the students received a demonstration of various shibori stitching indigo dyeing techniques from Mr Prabhatbhai Desai of NID. We will find out when we return whether their stitching and gathering will work. Continue reading
Posted Jul 4, 2014 at Living Blue
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To naturally wash the cotton cloth before dyeing, it is washed in cow dung. The cow dung is a natural caustic agent that removes the natural fine coating of wax in the cotton and thus allows the dye to bind with the cloth. It also leaves the cloth and your... Continue reading
Posted Jul 1, 2014 at Living Blue
YouTube Video Published on Mar 22, 2013 Clip I made for my Mom, who is newly hooked on indigo. Shows unwrapping arashi indigo dyed shibori. Pattern is Mokume, meaning wood grain. Cotton linen blend fabric. Sorry for poor quality, wasn't planning for this venue. Stuff happens. Continue reading
Posted Jun 30, 2014 at Living Blue
An excellent UNESCO video of Chinese Li ethnic group weaving and dyeing Continue reading
Posted May 9, 2014 at Living Blue
The Living Blue project has won one of the prestigious 2014 Wenner-Gren Foundation International Collaborative Research Grants to study the role of designers in the shifting cultural meanings of indigo dyes in contemporary China and India. Continue reading
Posted Apr 24, 2014 at Living Blue
blue - 蓝色 lán sè బ్ blū sapphire - 宝石蓝 bǎoshí lán ... Continue reading
Posted Apr 7, 2014 at Living Blue
This is a video of Australian Aboriginal women from Katherine, Northern Territory, Australia and their basketing weaving and dyeing of pandanas leaves. Continue reading
Posted Mar 31, 2014 at Living Blue
***Republished from the Conversation, original link here. 20 March 2014, 6.06am AEST Fashioning blue-collars: chambray shirts and indigo-dyed workwear Indigo dyed threads. kolokolchiki/Flickr Australian anthropologist Michael Taussig writes: To slip into the blue of your blue jeans is to slip into a surprising and unexpected encounter with the past …... Continue reading
Posted Mar 25, 2014 at Living Blue
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Introduction to the team and purpose of the Living Blue project on the role of designers in the changing cultural values of natural dyeing in Indigenous Australia, India, and China Continue reading
Posted Feb 22, 2014 at Living Blue
Posted Dec 30, 2013 at Cultures-Based Innovation