Slipper Palace
Medium: Participatory art, Social design, Pattern design, Video with sound.
The Slipper Palace project is part of a larger initiative called UpStart–Creative Industries, created by the Aga Khan Foundation in partnership with the University of Évora.
The initiative had as a starting point the creation and development of a workshop model aiming at the co- creation of modular graphic forms to be used in the elaboration of patterns for fabric. The training’s main objective is to share knowledge about visual perception, graphical expression, and visual communication, focusing on the observation and appropriation of local iconography and the representation of personal objects of some significance. This was followed by digital fabric printing from a selection of graphic compositions for patterns.
The workshop was developed in several stages: first, a collection of images of the place and participants’ objects that represented a strong relation with their daily lives or identity. Afterwards, a set of drawings was made, from each selected image, considering the negative space, the silhouette, the contour line, and the change of scale of the various forms. In the second stage, cardboard cutouts were made from the previous drawings, and graphic compositions were elaborated to combine the collected iconographic and personal elements. In a third step, all pieces were photographed and digitally edited, working as modules to create different patterns.
Paula Reaes Pinto and António Gorgel Pinto in collaboration with Anabela Justino, Anabela Silva, Catarina Almeida, Lia Jorge e Nuno Justino.
2021
