Dressing For Evacuation: Fashion & Textiles Futurescan 4 Conference, University of Bolton, UK, 23-24 January 2019

<i>Dressing for Evacuation</i> is a series of life size photographic portraits, shown as part of the US <i>Feverish World</i> <i>Symposium</i>, 2018 and the <i>UK Fashion &amp; Textiles FutureScan 4 </i>Conference in 2019. Through a fictional participatory scenario the project explores human emergency responses to getting dressed and gathering limited possessions for survival.<br><br>This item contains a conference programme, 3 installation views, a fold out poster, and a screenshot of the conference's Figshare content (CC-BY, linked below in reference). <br>This item documents the inclusion of <i>Dressing For Evacuation</i> in the FutureScan 4 Conference in January 2019 at the University of Bolton, UK. Organised by The Association of Fashion and Textile Courses (FTC) and co curated by Curtis, <i>Futurescan 4: Valuing Practice</i>, was a 3 day conference of lectures, discussion and exhibition providing an international forum for the dissemination of research, creative practice and pedagogy surrounding fashion and textiles. <i>Dressing For Evacuation</i> was exhibited as part of the wider discourse within the conference on <i>Collaborating and Cross-disciplinary Working</i>.<br><br><b>Photography by H Britt. Used with permission.</b><br><br><b>The work is under copyright and may not be used without permission. Use of this repository acknowledges cooperation with its policies and relevant copyright law.</b><br><br><br>