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In Conversation with Stitching Together and Sophie Woodward; Material methods 2
No full textThis is the second episode of an NCRM “In Conversation” series that focuses upon the emerging field of material methods where Sophie Woodward talks to Amy Twigger Holroyd and Emma Shercliff about the Stitching Together network. Stitching Together is a network of academics and practitioners that develop and use a variety of participatory textile making methods to address wide ranging issues. Amy and Emma introduce some of these projects as well as outline the potentials for cross-disciplinary developments of these practice-based material methods
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Fashion Fictions stage 2 and stage 3 data
No full textFashion Fictions, founded by Amy Twigger Holroyd in 2020, brings people together to generate, experience and reflect on engaging fictional visions of sustainable fashion systems as an unconventional route to real-world change.
The project is structured in three stages.
At Stage 1, we create 100-word outlines of fictional fashion cultures and systems, known as ‘worlds’
at Stage 2 we build on these outlines, generating visual and material prototypes known as ‘explorations’
at Stage 3 we find ways to enact and experience the prototyped worlds, in activities known as ‘enactments’.
Although the speculative nature of the project implicitly points to future possibilities, the framework for speculation is based on ‘speculating sideways’ into an endless array of contemporary realities in parallel worlds, described as ‘parallel presents’. The project invites participants to generate positive and enticing worlds, in terms of individual satisfaction, social justice and sustainability, and to explore worlds that are physically possible, but push beyond what feels plausible today – understanding plausibility as a socially constructed sense of what is possible.
This dataset was generated via four Stage 2 prototyping workshops and four Stage 3 enactments that were organised by Amy Twigger Holroyd in 2021 and 2022, as part of a Research, Development and Engagement Fellowship funded by the UK’s Arts & Humanities Research Council. The dataset was compiled by Amy Twigger Holroyd, with support during the development stage from Matilda Aspinall.
The dataset captures participants’ experiences as they explore specific fictional worlds that had been generated by Stage 1 contributors
On making, sustainability and the importance of small steps: A conversation
No full textThis article is a conversation between David Gauntlett and Amy Twigger Holroyd, who have shared interests in craft, making, sustainability and social change. Our discussion starts with the importance of small steps towards creativity: the personal satisfaction of making something yourself and of gaining recognition from others. These ‘micro’ steps, combined together at the macro level, become significant in contributing to social change. In particular, we explore the ways in which amateur making is important for sustainability – through offering an alternative to the mass consumption model and building a sense of engagement with the world. We then explore the idea of design as a process of action, change and creativity, which can be used to address social and environ- mental problems – whether by designing systems to support activity and reflection, or by creatively intervening in the complex systems within which we live
FIT Authors Talks: "The Miracles" with Amy Lemmon
No full textProfessor and Chair of English and Communication Studies Amy Lemmon reads from and talks about her book The Miracles.With lyricism and grace, Amy Lemmon gives us a worldview to live by. The all-too-familiar “wear of sorrow’s rub” is presented alongside the world’s miracles, including the author’s two children. Fearlessly bridging the gap between tradition and artistic innovation, the author moves us forward with her into the unknown, to entertain new relationships with herself, her children, and the world
American Women Writers: Amy M. Clark
No full textA 2011 conversation with the author Amy M. Clark about her life and the inspiration for her work
Dr. Amy Howard – Faculty Author Interview
No full textAmy Howard, executive director of the Bonner Center for Civic Engagement and associated faculty in American studies, discusses her new book, More Than Shelter: Activism and Community in San Francisco Public Housing, published recently by the University of Minnesota Press. Her research and book looks closely at three public housing projects in San Francisco and brings to light the dramatic measures tenants have taken to create communities that mattered to them
Payton, Amy Louise. "Looking Back" radio show on Paytons book on Georgina Stirling.
No full textCBC freelance broadcaster Cathy Porter talking to author Amy Louise Payton about the life of Georgina Stirling, Soprano Premadonna from Twillingate. Payton talks about her interest in the singer and her book on Stirling; Hiram Silk interviews Amy Louise Payton on the program Looking Back about her book Nightingale of the North about Georgina Stirling. Payton talks about Stirling and the history of the Twillingate area
Sparrows can't sing : East End kith and kinship in the 1960s
No full textSparrows Can’t Sing (1963) was the only feature film directed by
the late and much lamented Joan Littlewood. Set and filmed in
the East End, where she worked for many years, the film deserves
more attention than it has hitherto received. Littlewood’s career
spanned documentary (radio recordings made with Ewan MacColl
in the North of England in the 1930s) to directing for the stage
and the running of the Theatre Royal in London’s Stratford East,
often selecting material which aroused memories in local audiences
(Leach 2006: 142). Many of the actors trained in her Theatre
Workshop subsequently became better known for their appearances
on film and television. Littlewood herself directed hardly any material
for the screen: Sparrows Can’t Sing and a 1964 series of television
commercials for the British Egg Marketing Board, starring Theatre
Workshop’s Avis Bunnage, were rare excursions into an area of practice
which she found constraining and unamenable (Gable 1980: 32).
The hybridity and singularity of Littlewood’s feature may answer,
in some degree, for its subsequent neglect. However, Sparrows Can’t
Sing makes a significant contribution to a group of films made in
Britain in the 1960s which comment generally on changes in the
urban and social fabric. It is especially worthy of consideration,
I shall argue, for the use which Littlewood made of a particular
community’s attitudes – sentimental and critical – to such changes and
for its amalgamation of an attachment to documentary techniques
(recording an aural landscape on location) with a preference for nonnaturalistic
delivery in performance
Letter from Amy Narawaki to Mr. and Mrs. A.W. Thomas, December 15, 1971
No full textA holiday letter of greetings on Christmas from Amy Nakawaki [=Emiko Amy Terada] in Stanton, California to Mr. and Mrs. A.W. Thomas in Lawndale, California, which contains basic correspondence.The James H. Osborne Nisei Collection contains mainly correspondence between Emiko and Usami Terada, incarcerees in the Rohwer incarceration camp, McGehee Arkansas, and the Thomas family in Lawndale, California, and photographs of the Teradas and the Thomases. The letters describe the trip from the Santa Anita Temporary Assembly Center to the Rohwer incarceration camp, their lives and conditions in the camp, and their concerns about their properties in Lawndale, California. Also included are photographs taken in the camp, some issues of "The Rohwer outpost," and fliers published during wartime
Writers Talk Featuring Amy Pennington and Social Media Experts
No full textPart one of OSU social media experts Ryan Squire (Medical Center), Debra Jasper (Kiplinger program), and Shaun Holloway (Fisher) discussing the changing landscape of media. Plus, OSU alum Meghan Wynne talks food writing with Urban Pantry author Amy Pennington.The media can be accessed here: http://streaming.osu.edu/knowledgebank/cstw11/Pennington_Amy_Social_Media.mp3Ohio State University. Center for the Study and Teaching of Writin
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