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Frances Stevenson
Dr Frances Stevenson is currently Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader of Design and Craft at Duncan of Jordanstone College, University of Dundee. She is co-author of Textile Design, Sourcing Ideas: Researching Colour, Surface, Structure, Texture and Pattern (London: AVA Publishing, 2012) and her PhD completed in 2013 is entitled Making Changes: Applying Heuristics to a Practice-led Investigation of Creative Wellbeing Within the Context of Contemporary Craft.
As a textile practitioner she works within the contemporary craft area and strives to create textile products that demonstrate innovation in their design and excellence in their making. She believes making processes that combine innovation and excellence are as they are integral to the students learning, both through the challenges encountered within the physical making process and the revelations that manifest themselves through working or reflecting on the process or the finished object. She is particularly interested in the making process and the importance of maintaining ‘creative buoyancy’, ultimately raising questions concerning why making and learning through making still matters from a personal, educational, cultural and economic perspective.