○ an exploration of how mending can affect the gap
between the physical and the digital world, using the
speculative realm to examine curative possibilities of
interactivity.
This publication is a collaboration conceived
by third year I/M/D students(2020) as a bridge between the
courses of Research Writing and Interactive Textiles.
Each essay is an inquiry into mending, both individual
and collective, on a microcosmic and macrocosmic
level, with themes ranging from anti-consumerism to
space travel. The cut through design disrupts and unifes
the works, transforming the reading experience into one
which is active and tactile.
The making and research of Aperture took us beyond our skins, beyond healing or
tearing, to fuse the inside with the outside, changing how
we view the individual act in relation to the greater whole of a
globalised society.
Photo by Marco Dell’Abate