The Second International Conference for Creative Pattern Cutting

24 and 25 February 2016

Fashion journalist, Brenda Polen described creative pattern cutting as: "illuminating, inspired, intricate, whimsical, subtle, complex, challenging, eclectc, weird, dramatic and sculptural" (Rotor, 2014 p.14)

The second international conference is designed to promote contemporary research into the art of creative pattern cutting and its significance to the fashion industry. The conference provides a platform for pattern cutters, fashion designers, students and educators to explore the impact and direction for creative pattern cutting.

The conference aims to:

Encourage discussion of new methods and techniques in creative pattern cutting, inspiring technical and design innovation.

Develop ways in which the fashion industry promotes pattern cutting as a career, emphasizing its creative integrity and magnetism.

Enhance ways in which tacit knowledge and the making process are considered as legitimate forms of research enquiry.

Promote equity for the roles of the creative pattern cutter and the fashion designer in terms of esteem and renumeration.

Balance debates about the knowledge and practical experience of traditional processes in the context of technological and digital development.

We are looking for abstracts, which expand the themes above and further explore the impact and direction for creative pattern cutting.

Selected papers will be published in a special edition in The International Journal of Fashion Design, Technology and Education, Volume 6, Issue 2, published in July 2016. Guest editors: Dr Kevin Almond and Dr Jess Power.

Important dates:

Call sent out: 9 February 2015
Abstract (150 words): 1 May 2015 (Abstract and authors name, affiliation and institution should be submitted to creativecut@hud.ac.uk)
Notification for acceptance: 1 July 2015
Full paper (4000 - 5000 words) submission: 15 September 2015 (or before)
Reviewer's feedback: 1 January 2016 (or before)
Early bird registration: closed 31 October 2015
Registration closes: 12 February 2016
Symposium: 24 and 25 February 2016

Conference Programme

Wednesday 24th February

9.00am	Coffee/Tea/Registration	3M Buckley Innovation Centre
9.45am	Welcome from the Pro Vice Chancellor: Professor Christine Jarvis
9.50am	Introduction to the Conference Dr Kevin Almond
10.05am	Keynote speaker: Dr Timo Rissanen, Assistant Professor of Fashion Design, Parson: The New School for Design, New York 'Slow Down! We are Creative'
10.35am	Questions
10.45am	Coffee/Tea
11.00am	Please make your way selected session in time for an 11.15am start
11.15am	Research presentations presented in two strand sessions (attendance limited per strand)
SESSION 1 New Technologies Room 1 3M BIC Chair: Dr Jess Power	SESSION 2 Pedagogical Room 2 3M BIC Chair: Dr Karen Shah	SESSION 3 Fashioned Room 3 3M BIC Chair: Charlotte Goldthorpe
‘Photonic Patterns: Fashion Cutting With Illuminating Polymeric Optical Fibre (POF) Textiles’ Dr. Jeanne Tan 11.15am	‘Parsons New Curriculum’ Greg Climer 11.15am	Tradition’Pattern Making for New Fabric Joining Technologies’ Elena Etheridge 11.15am
‘Shaped by a Stitch – Exploring the Knit Stitch as a Means for Shaping Pre-made Textiles’< Linda Ohrn-McDaniel 11.45a	‘How Can A Box Become A Garment’ Laura Hardingham 11.45am	‘Myths, Mysteries and Legends that Surround the Development of Pattern Cutting’ Hilary Hollingworth 11.45am
‘Computational Fashion – The Digital Approach to Pattern Making’ Kiwy Huang 12.15pm	‘Jumpstarting Creativity in the University Setting: An Exercise in Creative Silhouettes’ Prof. Susan P. Ashdown, Dr. Fang Fang, Dr. Xiao Ping 12.15pm	‘Tacit Magic: Understanding the Principles behind Nakamichi's Creative Pattern Cutting’ Dr. Ellen McKinney, April Elisha Stanley, Brianna Plummer, Katherine Thompson, Whitney Rorah 12.15pm
12.45 - 1.45pm	Lunch Please make your way back to your selected sessional room for a 2.00pm start	3M Buckley Innovation Centre
SESSION 4	SESSION 5	SESSION 6
‘Measuring Access’ Alison Rastetter Rasch 2.00pm	‘Pattern Drafting for Diverse Body Types’ Adrian Thornton 2.00pm	‘From Roll to Bag’ Dr. Jonas Larsson, Dr. Rickard Lindquist 2.00pm
‘Integrating Textile Design & Surface Design into the Pattern Cutting Process Incorporating the use of Multiple Technologies’ Katie Thompson, Whitney Rorah, Dr. Ellen McKinney 2.30pm	‘Changing Perspectives in the Patternmaking and Draping Classroom’ Linda Ohrn-McDaniel, Archana Mehta, Elizabeth Carr, 2.30pm	‘The White Shirt. (An exploration into the influence of geometrics in fashion)’ Gael Henry, Tony Brotheridge, Professor Bruce Montgomery 2.30pm
‘Defining a Theoretical Model - The Application of 3d Printing as a Disruptive Technology, Explored Through an Analysis of the Process of Creative Garment Development’ Jayne Mechan, Georgina Housley, Edmund Keeefe, John Earnshaw 3.00pm	‘Scaffolding Creative Pattern Cutting throughout the Traditional Patternmaking Curriculum’ Brianna Plummer 3.00pm	‘The Side Saddle Skirt’ Lyn Caponera 3.00pm
	‘Teaching of Creative Pattern Making in Today`s Higher Education’ Karen Jessen, Lucia Mors de Castro 3.30pm
	Toy Box or Tool Box; Is Fashion Education Merely an Expensive Hobby? Anastasia.Vouyouka, Rebecca.Ryder-Caddy 4.00pm
4.00 - 5.00pm	Coffee/Tea
6.15pm	Evening ReceptionStudent Central
6.30pm	Keynote speakers: Professor Shelley Fox, Donna Karan Professor of Fashion, Parsons: The New School for Design, New York and Juliana Sissons, Senior Lecturer, Nottingham Trent University 'Cutter - Designer - Cutter: Cutting as Design'
7.15pm	Conference Dinner

Thursday 25th February

9.00am	Coffee/Tea/Registration	3M Buckley Innovation Centre
10.00am	Keynote speakers: Mark Powell/Anne-Laure Frizon (Lectra) 'A New Era in Fashion and Apparel Product Development'
10.30am	Questions
10.45am	Coffee/Tea
11.00am	Please make your way to your selected session in time for an 11.15am start
11.15am	Research presentations presented in three strand sessions (attendance limited per strand)
SESSION 1 New Technologies Room 1 3M BIC Chair: Stephen Wigley	SESSION 2 Sustainable/Alternative Room 2 3M BIC Chair: Dr Natalie McCreesh	SESSION 3 Fashioned Room 3 3M BIC Chair: Dr Tracy Cassidy
‘On the Relationship Between the Shear Forces in Human Skin and the Grain Direction of Woven Fabric’ Dr. Rickard Lindqvist 11.15am	‘Holistic Zero Waste Model – Beyond Pattern Cutting’ Kirsten Schaefer 11.15am	‘Abstract Approaches to Creative Cutting’ Lee Harding 11.15am
Stretch to Fit – Made to Fit’ Tanya Dove 11.45am	‘Sizing up zero-waste patterns Code’ Melanie Carrico 11.45am	‘Cuts and Construction: Challenging Perceptions of 19th Century Women’s Costume Phionna Fitzgerald 11.45am
‘3d Printing: Virtual Draping the New Moulage’ Emma Grain 12.15pm	‘Growing and Sustaining Creative Pattern Cutting as a Recognized Profession in Asia’ Jeremiah Tan, Harah Chon, Adrian Huang 12.15pm	‘From Skip to Catwalk: An Investigation into Viable Pattern Cutting Techniques for Recycled Clothing’ Dr. Karen Shah
12.45 - 1.45pm	Lunch Please make your way back to your selected sessional room for a 2.00pm start	3M Buckley Innovation Centre
SESSION 4	SESSION 5	SESSION 6
‘New Approach to the Dress Forms for Korean Boys Aged 7-10 by Body Size and Shape Analysis’ Hye Won Lim, Prof Tom Cassidy, Dr. Tracy Cassidy 2.00pm	‘Transforming the Sequential Process of Fashion Production: Where Zero-Waste Pattern Cutting Takes the Lead in Creative Design’ Dr. Alana M James, Bruce Munro Roberts, Anna Kuznia 2.00pm	‘Creative Cutting for Underarm Fit: An Analysis of Vintage Clothing to Advise Tacit Knowledge and the Making Process’ Helen Burbidge 2.00pm
‘The Influence of Seams on Body Posture’ Dr. Ines Simoes, Nuno Pinto Nogueira 2.30pm	‘Transforming Zero’ Melanie Carrico 2.30pm	‘Making Trans---form---ative Cuts Fashioning Dynamic Form: Experimantal Making to Evolve Design Practice’ Donna Sgro 2.30pm
‘Proportional Myths and Individual Truths in Pattern Construction Methods’ Simeon Gill, Dr..Ellen McKinney 3.00pm	‘MakeUse: Print as Encoded Way Finding a System for the Creation of Garment Form’ Holly McQuillan 3.00pm	‘The Progress of Creative Pattern Cutting’ Dr. Kevin Almond. Dr. Jess Power 3.00pm
4.00 - 4.30pm	Coffee/Tea
4.30pm	Plenary session/Conference close
5.00pm	Conference Close Dr Kevin Almond

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Hosting University: University of Huddersfield, UK

Organisers: Dr Kevin Almond, Stephen Wigley, Dr Jess Power

Contact: creativecut@hud.ac.uk

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