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urban fabric

The city, it is said, is like a cloth, and as one of the most fragile of material artefacts, must always be mended or rewoven again, in order for it to exist.

Urban Fabric is an interdisciplinary exploration of surfaces, architectural and textile, those surfaces which both enclose and enclothe us, and foregrounds their significance in our understanding and experience of place. Departing from a series of photographs of curtain wall buildings which exposed the latent image of Harris Tweed amidst the buildings’ faces, it recalls the nineteenth century German architect and champion of the crafts, Gottfried Semper’s claim that walls were once originally woven.

Through Urban Fabric, the city’s surfaces are translated and rewoven in Harris Tweed, the city’s architects, artists, craftspeople, and designers, then invited to refashion the cloth in accordance with their own practices and ways of making. The project thus celebrates the city and those who contribute to its making, a consequence of innovation and collaborative exchange. Urban Fabric changes the way we view the city, engages a living heritage, Harris Tweed and its culturally embedded traditions, while engaging with an until recently overlooked period of architecture, interweaving between the city and the isles of the Outer Hebrides, as it entwines the practices of craft and design. 

DETAILS: Unrealised installation. Drawing by Tina Atic and Letó Tsolakis.

A profound and compelling project ... Jeff Malpas, Distinguished Professor, University of Tasmania.

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交织都会

据说这座城市就像一块布，是最脆弱的人造品之一，必须经常修补或重新编织以使其续存。

《交织都会》是一种对表面、建筑和纺织品之间的交互探索，这些表面仿佛一块布包覆着、环绕着我们，并且深深影响着我们对一个地方的理解和体验。一系列蕴藏着苏格兰哈里斯花呢（Harris Tweed）潜像的幕墙建筑照片，呼应了十九世纪德国建筑师和工匠大师戈特弗里德·森帕尔（Gottfried Semper）的声称 —— 墙壁最初是编织而成的。

《交织都会》转化了城市表面，以哈里斯粗花呢重新编织了这座城市，城市建筑师、艺术家、工匠、设计师，受邀依苏格兰传统织布方式实现作品概念。本作品是城市和创作贡献者的喝彩，也是创新与协作交流之下的结晶。《交织都会》改变了我们看待城市的视角，织绘了哈里斯粗花呢传统文化遗产的传承以及长期被忽视的建筑时期，大都会城市与古老的外赫布里底群岛（Outer Hebrides）之间的交交织织，实现了工艺与设计之精髓。

详细说明：未实际安装。Tina Atic 与 Letó Tsolakis制图。

一个深刻且扣人心弦的艺术之作——塔斯马尼亚大学杰出教授杰夫马尔帕斯（Jeff Malpas）。

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