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 ==== Débrouillardise et Coquetterie ==== ==== Débrouillardise et Coquetterie ====
  
-notes from a [[:resilients]] residency +notes from a [[:resilients]] residency. Coralie Stalberg, April - May 2012
  
-Coralie Stalberg, April - May 2012 +===PRESENTATION===
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-**PRESENTATION**+
  
 **“Débrouillardise et Coquetterie”** is a project on DIY textile practices and associated recycling strategies during a historical period characterized by a radical scarcity of material resources — the Second World War and the years right after the war. In the context of research for a resilient future that would be more sensitive and committed to sustainability, it’s quite possible that the inventive solutions imagined by all kinds of people for coping with resource shortages in their everyday realities during the war period can be inspiring for us now, and constitute a playful toolbox to experiment with… **“Débrouillardise et Coquetterie”** is a project on DIY textile practices and associated recycling strategies during a historical period characterized by a radical scarcity of material resources — the Second World War and the years right after the war. In the context of research for a resilient future that would be more sensitive and committed to sustainability, it’s quite possible that the inventive solutions imagined by all kinds of people for coping with resource shortages in their everyday realities during the war period can be inspiring for us now, and constitute a playful toolbox to experiment with…
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-** +===METHODOLOGY / THEORETICAL===  
-METHODOLOGY / THEORETICAL PART : at the crossroad of History, Ethnography and Textile Conservation.** +at the crossroad of History, Ethnography and Textile Conservation.
  
-- **History**, according to a Microhistory approach (‘search for large answers in small places’), also Altagsgeschichte (history from ‘below’)+**History**, according to a Microhistory approach (‘search for large answers in small places’), also Altagsgeschichte (history from ‘below’)
  
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microhistory +  * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microhistory 
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alltagsgeschichte +  * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alltagsgeschichte 
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annales_School+  * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annales_School
  
 An inspiring text from Dominique Veillon : http://www.ihtp.cnrs.fr/spip.php%3Farticle240&lang=fr.html An inspiring text from Dominique Veillon : http://www.ihtp.cnrs.fr/spip.php%3Farticle240&lang=fr.html
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 http://www.cairn.info/revue-terrain-2010-2-page-4.htm http://www.cairn.info/revue-terrain-2010-2-page-4.htm
  
-** +**Anthropology of cloth / Costume History**
-° Anthropology of cloth / Costume History +
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 « Pour une anthropologie du vêtement »  Yves Delaporte, CNRS/Musée de l’Homme « Pour une anthropologie du vêtement »  Yves Delaporte, CNRS/Musée de l’Homme
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-**METHODOLOGY / EXPERIENTIAL PART** : (in construction)+===Methodology / Experiential (in construction)===
  
-- Phenomenology of the encounter (cf fieldwork)+  * Phenomenology of the encounter (cf fieldwork) 
 +  * Assessment of the relational complexity induced by the dynamics of the gift/countergift. (cf fieldwork, the giving/receiving of the stories from the past) 
 +  * Design spaces/conditions/games to foster creative engagements with the Past, as part of a Living History, (through artisanal textile workshops for older and younger generations, re enacting and reinterpreting DIY text practices from WWII)  -- intergenerational dramaturges
  
-- Assessment of the relational complexity induced by the dynamics of the gift/countergift. (cf fieldwork, the giving/receiving of the stories from the past) 
  
-- Design spaces/conditions/games to foster creative engagements with the Past, as part of a Living History, (through artisanal textile workshops for older and younger generations, re enacting and reinterpreting DIY text practices from WWII)  -- intergenerational dramaturges+[[Some Notes on my way of hybridizing ethnography with the ethics of textile conservation]]
  
 +====Process====
  
-[[Some Notes : on my way of hybridizing ethnography with the ethics of textile conservation|Some Notes : on my way of hybridizing ethnography with the ethics of textile conservation]] 
  
-PROCESS +===DOCUMENTING the research topic===
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-1. **DOCUMENTING** the research topic+
  
 Fields of interests : Fields of interests :
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 dignity – history of the bodies that is sensitive to a memory of emotions and affect (from proudness to shame, the hiding of precariousness) – costume as overstatement/overacting – choregraphies of the body (costume landscapes) – polarization of ideology – class – gender representation – manipulation of the women body through dressing. dignity – history of the bodies that is sensitive to a memory of emotions and affect (from proudness to shame, the hiding of precariousness) – costume as overstatement/overacting – choregraphies of the body (costume landscapes) – polarization of ideology – class – gender representation – manipulation of the women body through dressing.
  
-** +===Resilience===
-Resilience**+
  
 Moral, social and cultural resilience Moral, social and cultural resilience
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 **Irène Guenther**  **Irène Guenther** 
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 – Specialist in modern German cultural and gender history – Specialist in modern German cultural and gender history
 http://www.uh.edu/honors/about/faculty-staff/irene-guenther.php http://www.uh.edu/honors/about/faculty-staff/irene-guenther.php
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 **Jonathan Walford** **Jonathan Walford**
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 Founder and Curatorial Director of Fashion History Museum of Canada, Writer Founder and Curatorial Director of Fashion History Museum of Canada, Writer
 http://www.kickshawproductions.com/ http://www.kickshawproductions.com/
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-**FIELDWORK**+===FIELDWORK===
  
 Senior centers interested in participation : Senior centers interested in participation :
--Résidence Arcadia (elderly house Molebeek/OCMW) +  - Résidence Arcadia (elderly house Molebeek/OCMW) 
--LDC Randstad (social restaurant for Seniors, Molenbeek)  +  - LDC Randstad (social restaurant for Seniors, Molenbeek)  
--the Institut Pachéco (elderly house in 1000 Brussels),  +  - the Institut Pachéco (elderly house in 1000 Brussels),  
--‘Ages et Transmissions’: http://www.agesettransmissions.be/?lang=at +  - ‘Ages et Transmissions’: http://www.agesettransmissions.be/?lang=at 
--‘La Mémoire Vivante’ : http://www.memoirevivante.be/+  - ‘La Mémoire Vivante’ : http://www.memoirevivante.be/
  
  
 The first interviews: The first interviews:
--[[Interview Débrouillardise et Coquetterie: Thérèse from Uccle]] +  * [[interview therese from uccle|Thérèse from Uccle]] 
--[[Interview Débrouillardise et Coquetterie: Jeanne and Jacoba from Pachéco]] +  * [[interview jeanne and jacoba from pacheco|Jeanne and Jacoba from Pachéco]] 
--[[Interview Débrouillardise et Coquetterie: Jean van Molenbeek]]+  * [[interview jeanne van molenbeek|Jeanne van Molenbeek]]
  
  
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 (in process) (in process)
  
-4.CASE STUDIES :: intergenerational workshops+====4.CASE STUDIES :: intergenerational workshops====
 (in construction) (in construction)
  
  
-TOWARD A LIVING ARCHIVE+====5. TOWARD A LIVING ARCHIVE==== 
 Search for critical/playful archive practices Search for critical/playful archive practices
  
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 Mokhtari Sylvie (éditeur). 2004. Les Artistes contemporains et l'Archive. Interrogation sur le sens du temps et de la mémoire à l'ère de la numérisation. Rennes : Presses universitaires de Rennes, 282 p.   Mokhtari Sylvie (éditeur). 2004. Les Artistes contemporains et l'Archive. Interrogation sur le sens du temps et de la mémoire à l'ère de la numérisation. Rennes : Presses universitaires de Rennes, 282 p.  
  
-Dans Archive Fever Enwezor     :   production de « contre-archives », affirmant que « les archives sont tributaires de leur fonction d’autorité manifeste en tant que source +Dans Archive Fever Enwezor     :   production de « contre-archives », affirmant que « les archives sont tributaires de leur fonction d’autorité manifeste en tant que source principale de vérité historique » 
-principale de vérité historique »+
 Aby M. Warburg, «Mnemosyne-Atlas», 1924 – 1929  Mnemosyne-Atlas, Boards of the Rembrandt-Exhibition, 1926 | Aby M. Warburg, «Mnemosyne-Atlas», 1924 – 1929  Mnemosyne-Atlas, Boards of the Rembrandt-Exhibition, 1926 |
 http://www.mediaartnet.org/works/mnemosyne/ http://www.mediaartnet.org/works/mnemosyne/
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 Gerhard Richter, « Atlas », 1962 Gerhard Richter, « Atlas », 1962
 http://www.mediaartnet.org/works/atlas/images/3/ http://www.mediaartnet.org/works/atlas/images/3/
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 +==== Interviews ====
 +  * [[interview jeanne and jacoba from pacheco]]
 +  * [[interview jeanne van molenbeek]]
 +  * [[interview therese from uccle]]
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 +==== Notes on methodology====
 +  * [[some_notes_on_my_personal_methodological_approach]]
 +  * [[some_notes_on_my_way_of_hybridizing_ethnography_with_the_ethics_of_textile_conservation]]
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