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pk langshaw
Sustainable building project in Post conflict Gulu Uganda
Fofa Gallery Exhibition
Interdisciplinary
2010
The project explores the historical and cultural significance of parachutes, from WWII utility to their transformation into garments and multimedia documentation under the label 'remove before flight'.
Sustainable building project in Post conflict Gulu Uganda
Community Engagement
2010-2016
The project includes an annotated bibliography, video and photography as document to live performative events.
Urban re.verse dress
Textile Fabrication
2007-2011
The 'urban reversedress' project examines how reconstructed garments can retain memories and histories, led by PI pk langshaw and Professor Sandra Weber.
In.site symposium development and implementation
Symposium
2021-2023
Community Masks : From Studio to Frontline
Textile Fabrication
2020-2022
Parachute un.folds : follow the threads
Publication
2020-2022
Sustainable building project in Post conflict Gulu Uganda
Community Engagement
2018-2022
Parachute un.folds : follow the threads
Interdisciplinary
2010-2016
urban re.verse dress
Textile Fabrication
2010
d_verse: transitional algorhythms of gesture
Multimedia Performance
2007-2011
Public Art as Social Intervention
Interdisciplinary
2001
Declarations of inter.depence and the immediacy of design
Symposium
2001
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Consolation House → Constellation HomePre-departure (Montreal): Planning, pattern testing, collaborative workshops, and activities throughout 2014.On-site Residency (Gulu): Working with CVAP Ugandan student Jane Aciro to create adaptive/individualized patterns and garments for 26 children (ages 6 months to 19 years).Each child had specific needs, requiring a garment that is either:Easy to put on autonomously by a child with mental/learning challenges.Designed for caregivers to dress children with severe physical challenges, such as missing limbs, body bone/muscle atrophy due to illness, limb immobility, progressive genetic/muscular diseases, or paralysis (only mobile via wheelchair or rolling bed).Additional skirts for caregivers were also sewn.
St. Jude Children’s Home Residency
August 2014.
St. Jude Children’s Home Residency
August 2014.
Consolation House → Constellation HomePre-departure (Montreal): Planning, pattern testing, collaborative workshops, and activities throughout 2014.On-site Residency (Gulu): Working with CVAP Ugandan student Jane Aciro to create adaptive/individualized patterns and garments for 26 children (ages 6 months to 19 years).Each child had specific needs, requiring a garment that is either:Easy to put on autonomously by a child with mental/learning challenges.Designed for caregivers to dress children with severe physical challenges, such as missing limbs, body bone/muscle atrophy due to illness, limb immobility, progressive genetic/muscular diseases, or paralysis (only mobile via wheelchair or rolling bed).Additional skirts for caregivers were also sewn.
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In.site
Community Masks
Wild cities
Sustainable building
d_verse
parachute un.folds
urban re.verse dress
Public Art
Declaration
Compilation
Cloth & Clothes