Abstract
If the body is the starting point for an unlimited journey of sharing signals of communication and recognition, it is also a point of arrival for desires and sensations that we live and share in our personal and public sphere.
This article aims to address the theme of body communication over time and its sharing with the textile knitted materials that throughout its development have helped to shape the objective and subjective factors that allow building a language of seduction and power.
This paper will present an overview of three different moments, throughout human history, where knitting and its characteristics were adopted as an integral part of the exercise for the development of aesthetic renewal and where technique and visual intersect in an exhibition and body projection.
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The authors of this paper wish to thank the Centre for Research in Architecture, Urbanism and Design (CIAUD) of the Lisbon School of Architecture of the University of Lisbon and FCT for founding this project.
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Montagna, G., Carvalho, C., Morais, C., Sbordone, M.A. (2020). The Shape of Desire: Knitwear and the Body. In: Di Bucchianico, G., Shin, C., Shim, S., Fukuda, S., Montagna, G., Carvalho, C. (eds) Advances in Industrial Design. AHFE 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1202. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51194-4_95
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