Julia Valle-Noronha

• Doctor of Arts
• Assistant Professor in Fashion Design at Aalto University

This special issue explores contemporary efforts in rethinking artistic research, especially in relation to its boundaries, methods, formats, and collaborations across fields of knowledge and practice. As artistic research sets itself firmly on its own scientific grounds, its relational and affective potential expands beyond the fields of visual ar...

Creative productions are integral to research conducted through practices of art, design, and craft. While their significance to the generation of knowledge is increasingly recognized, productions of this kind remain deemed discretized research components. This paper illustrates how they can be better understood as fluid assemblages that enact and...

This article investigates cultural sustainability through the case of the Ethno course, offered to students in the fashion design programme at the Estonian Academy of Arts. It discusses ways to enhance bonds with the environment, heritage and traditional knowledge in fashion design. Via narratives of traditional crafts and situated learning in a te...

In this exploratory paper, we discuss how different scales of production can affect relationships between humans and nonhumans. This discussion is carried out through the exploration of three scales of felting: hand-felting with manual tools, felting with semi-industrial tools at small-scale studios, and felting with industrial automated machines....

This study investigates how fashion practitioners have approached sustainability in Brazil. Through the lens of culture—a recently emerging pillar of sustainability—we look into practices that hint at plural approaches in the dominant western perspectives, especially in terms of their symbolic dimension and value systems. We will briefly present an...

Conducting research through creative and artistic practices is becoming an established approach used to advance knowledge in various domains of the Arts. Although this approach tends to highlight the voice of the author through the first-person singular, practitioner-researchers working in the fields of art, design, and craft often involve other st...

Workshop proposal for BICCS 2021 - Biennial International Conference for the Craft Sciences (Peer-reviewed) Abstract: Now, as ever before, individual choices of material use are gaining more attention as we reach natural resource depletion. The respect and care towards our environment is connected to the understanding of the materialities we live w...

This Special Issue examines collaboration within research teams of professionals, researchers, and other stakeholders with diverse disciplinary expertise. It aims to understand how individual experiential knowledge – or knowledge gained by practice – is shared, how collective experiential knowledge is accumulated and communicated in and through col...

This article studies an experimental pattern-cutting workshop part of a series of extension courses offered by a Brazilian University. It addresses ways in which to develop student-centred approaches to learning, highlighting the situatedness of the practitioner. In the workshop, the participants were invited to explore personal experiences as info...

Observing dress practices as a field of research is a recent phenomena in exponential growth in which the voice of the designer is often left aside. Aware of this gap, this study dives into the experience of dressing and wearing in search for understanding the ways in which the body materiality is involved in the designer’s creative processes. It e...

Previous literature in person–product attachment has identified factors in long-term relationships responsible for the strengthening of bonds between users and products, stimulating longevity in use. Interested in further understanding the matter in the realm of fashion, this study investigates how relationships between individuals and the clothes...

A indústria da moda é permeada por hiperconsumo. Produção em massa, preços baixos e tendências fazem com que consumidores percebam roupas como descartáveis. Essa cultura do descarte se soma aos já problemá- ticos impactos ambientais causados pela indústria. Para alterar esse cenário propomos intervenções em guarda-roupas, um método que parte de prá...

Observing dress practices as a field of research is a recent phenomena in exponential growth in which the voice of the designer is often left aside. Aware of this gap, this study dives into the experience of dressing and wearing in search for understanding the ways in which the body materiality is involved in the designer's creative processes. It e...

This study focuses on an experimental clothing design project that proposes time as a fruitful design space. It draws from studies in design that suggest longevity through design iterations in time. In this study, proposed pre-programmed alterations promote permanent or temporary changes in clothes. The final outcomes invite creative interaction an...

Previous studies in fashion design reveal that a new garment in individuals' wardrobes can play various roles, such as causing excitement, keeping up with trends and feelings of belonging. But a new garment also raises other issues, such as the shortened lifecycles of clothes and loose bonds between wearer and the worn. Motivated by these previous...

Neste estudo investigo minha própria prática através de um projeto onde a ação de vestir é tomada como inspiração para produção de roupas. Este trabalho foca no projeto Dress(v.), suas metodologias e resultados. No projeto, pesquiso através do design enquanto crio roupas via modelagem criativa, informada pelos movimentos cotidianos de um trocar de...

Despite of the recent development of design practice research, this discussion has not yet been fully incorporated in fashion. It stumbles upon the building of a theory from design research and struggles against similar issues from other practice-oriented fields of knowledge such as the lack of academic consensus on quality and validity of practice...

This paper analyses two open-ended design-projects in clothing where chance was taken as the main processual motivation and posed a relevant role in the creation of new objects. With these cases, the authors aim to illustrate the potential of chance applied in methodologies for designing more meaningful p-p (product-person) attachments. The authors...