Practice-led origami-inspired fashion design: out of the frame: flight by paper plane

Abstract

ABSTRACTThis project, entitled Out of the Frame: Flight by Paper Plane, explores ways of utilising origami, and especially paper planes, to generate creative patterns in fashion design. It also explores ways in which paper plane crafts, as a mode of thinking, can be incorporated into ‘practice-led’ design research. Employing the practice-led research methods defined by Niedderer and Roworth-Stokes [(2007, November). The role and use of creative practice in research and its contribution to knowledge. Paper presented at the meeting of IASDR International Conference, Hong Kong Polytechnic University], this paper uses the following research process: 1. Practice as posing research problems: out of the frame: flight by paper plane; 2. practice as context: origami and fashion design; 3. practice as a method of investigation: paper plane practice-led design methodology; 4. practice as a means of generating research outcomes: project evaluation and reflection. Throughout the practice-led design process, origami structures of paper planes serve as a valuable medium for exploring illimitable structures for further application and involve the designer in a complex problem-solving process through which optimal structures are developed.