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The T/Shirt Issue
 Goethe V&A Residency 2014

A woman wears an artistically folded top with an extremely high collar that covers half her face. © The T/Shirt Issue

Digital Design Resident Artists 2014

The Goethe-Institut London and the Victoria and Albert Museum presented a six-month residency in 2014. The design collective The T/Shirt Issue worked with 3D scanning and software from different fields to manipulate objects and reconstruct clothing patterns in 3D.

The T/Shirt Issue was an interdisciplinary design collective from Berlin, consisting of Murat Kocyigit, Hande Akcayli and Rozi Rexhepi, whose practice combined fashion, design and technology to create work ranging from wearable garments to conceptual installations. During their residency, the collective 3D scanned a selection of the objects in the V&A’s collections and made these patterns available online. In addition, they staged various workshops and activities to explain their practice to the museum’s varied audiences, as well as they took part in the London Design Festival in September, where they presented their installation called „Dream-Land“.
 
  • An artistically folded top looks like the wing of a bird. © The T/Shirt Issue
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„Working with the V&A collections offered us the opportunity to look at the world's immense cultural history from a meta-perspective. We were keen on exploring and creating a digital mirror world from a selection of the V&A's permanent collection. The main goal was to reshape existing cultural history and insert historic events by 3D scanning objects and figurines and turning them into new pieces. As soon as they become digital files, they were open for experimenting; not only their shape and texture can be recreated but all their attributes can be altered. From here, any 'what if' scenario can be implemented and we can theoretically travel back in time to enter new ideas of both the public and our own.“ The T/Shirt Issue
 
Learn more about The T/Shirt Issue and their residency in London in this video:
Find the V&A Blog that accompanied the residency here. More information about
The T/Shirt Issue in London on the V&A’s website.


The residency took place from April to October 2014.
 
A collaboration between the V&A and the Goethe-Institut London.
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