Kimberley Franklin

Finding Hybridity through Fashion Design: How to rewild the foot for a more-than-human future life.

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A analysis of finding hybridity through rewilding the foot.
My mother in her hybrid state rewilding her foot.

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This project is about rewilding footwear. I have drawn on the Actor Network Theory and Jane Bennett’s ‘thing power’ and have also used an auto-ethnographic methodology. My mothers relationship with her wheelchair has helped me to think through how objects have agency and give us agency overall too. I am aiming to design the interaction we have not only with fashion and dress, but also between ourselves and the world we live in.
Exhibition location
Block 12 Level C