Fletcher, K., Fitzpatrick, A., 2024.
Braiding As Research Method: Building Relational Understanding for Fashion
| Output Type: | Journal article |
| Publication: | Fashion Practice |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 1756-9370 |
| Volume/Issue: | 16 (2) |
| Pagination: | pp. 311-328 |
This article introduces "braiding" as a process of enquiry for fashion concerned with deepening understanding through writing, dialogue, and participation with others. It sets out a step-wise process for bringing together people's experiences about a theme and generating insight from this joint place, a point of relation. The article explores the potential of braiding to diversify knowledge production in fashion research and to bring forward understanding that emerges from interdependence. Examples of braiding-as-enquiry are interwoven through the piece.