Fashioning cultural entrepreneurship. The role of heritage in dissemination, didactic and research activities among stakeholders by Federica Vacca, Angelica Vandi

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The Knitwear Archive as a Tool to Explore New Technologies by Giovanni Maria Conti, Diego Dani, Martina Motta, Irene Sapuppo, Federica Vacca

“…Two main innovation areas are identified: new manufacturing technologies, developed by knitting machine producers, and virtualization and 3D modeling softwares, enabling virtual garment prototyping on avatars.This paper explores the role of design as a “cultural mediator” between the present and the past and, through a research conducted at the Gianfranco Ferré Research Center, it proposes the use of the archive as a tool to explore the new trajectories of technological innovation in knitwear and to guide them through the perspective of the Industry 5.0, refusing a technocratic idea of the future. …”
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