A Brief Introduction to Body-Oriented Parametric Design for 3D-Printed Fashion and Textiles

Abstract

This paper presents the introduction to the author’s PhD thesis titled, Interfashionality: Body-oriented Parametric Design and Parametric Thinkign 2.0 for 3 D-printed Fashion and Textiles. The paper firstly introduces the author’s research motivation, which is followed by theoretical discussions around and design examples of fashion and textile digitalization, as well as 3 D-printed fashion and textiles. The author then introduces the important implication of parametric design for creating 3 D-printed fashion and textiles. In this section, through analyzing the self-organized conference, Digital Fashion-3D Printing for Designer, and through intensive discussions of the origin of parametric design and its adoption in fashion, the author then summarizes the scope of the research. This paves the way for a concrete research question, five research aims, research structure (model of the research) and thesis structure.

Keywords:

• 3d printing (3DP)
• parametric design
• body
• fashion
• textiles

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1 These refers to the textile creation, which can be found from the 5.3 section in the author’s PhD thesis (Lin 2020) titled, Interfashionality: Body-oriented Parametric Design and Parametric Thinking 2.0 for 3D-printed Fashion and Textiles (https://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/4527/)

2 The structure refers to the parametrically design and 3D-printed pleats, which can be found from the author’s 6.3.1 section in the PhD thesis titled: Interfashionality: Body-oriented Parametric Design and Parametric Thinking 2.0 for 3D-printed Fashion and Textiles (https://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/4527/)

3 The qipao/cheongsam is a type of traditional Chinese garment that was originally designed to be wide and loose. It is one of the only traditional forms of dress that have survived the transition to modern dress without losing most of its traditional characteristics (Li 2014, 9), and it is still popular on many occasions today. The period from the 1920s to the 1940s marked the qipao’s remarkable transition from being cut from purely flat pattern pieces to dimensional construction in its pattern-cutting (Li, Zhu and Sun 2014).

4 Such as Formnext, TCT, Rapid. Tech + FabCon 3.D, Global Additive Application Summit, 3D Print Expo, The International Conference on Additive Manufacturing & 3D Printing, IN(3D)USTRY and Inside 3D Printing.

5 Such as 3D Printing Electronics Conference, Additive Manufacturing for Medical Devices 2019, Additive Manufacturing for Aerospace and Space, Annual Conference on 3D Printing & Bio- printing in Healthcare, 3D Metrology Conference, AM Ceramics 2018, International Congress on Welding, Additive Manufacturing and Associated Non-destructive Testing, Automotive 3D Printing Conference.

6 It was used in the 4.2.2 section in the author’s PhD thesis titled, Interfashionality: Body-oriented Parametric Design and Parametric Thinking 2.0 for 3D-printed Fashion and Textiles (https://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/4527/)

7 It was used in the 5.3 section in the author’s PhD thesis.

8 It was used in the 5.3 section in the author’s PhD thesis.

9 It was used in the 6.1.2 section in the author’s PhD thesis.

10 It was used in the 6.1.2 section in the author’s PhD thesis.

11 Using Parametric Thinking as a research methodology was intensively discussed in the 3.3.2 section of the author’s PhD thesis.

12 The phenomenological approach is an overall research approach for this PhD research, and it was discussed in the Chapter III of the author’s thesis.

13 It was presented in the 7.2.2 section of the author’s thesis

14 The new design was defined as Parametric Design 2.0 in 7.2.3 section of the author’s thesis.

15 The research generated a new model of thinking Parametric Thinking 2.0 in 7.2.1 section of the author’s thesis.

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Mingjing Lin

Dr. Mingjing Lin is a Lecturer in Fashion Technologies at Kingston University and a Senior Lecturer in MA Digital Fashion at University for the Creative Arts. She obtained a PhD degree from the Textile Department at the Royal College of Art (UK). The practice-based research (https://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/4527/) investigates body-oriented parametric design and Parametric Thinking 2.0 for 3D-printed fashion and textiles. As designer and researcher, she involved EU-funded Horizon 2020 Wear Sustain project: WISP sensual Jewelry in 2017; she co-founded L-UP-L-DOWN studio in 2019 and nonprofit UK-China design platform ABOUNDARY since 2015. Her works have been presented internationally since 2011, including V&A museum, London Fashion Week, London Design Festival, Disseny de Barcelona and National Museum of China. By adopting STEAM approach, she has continually probed for creating digital fashion, exploring the possibilities of wearable technology as well as smart textiles, and pushing the boundaries of art, design and technology. [email protected]