Aesthetics of the Invisible. Sonic Value in the Field of Fashion Design
Vidmina Stasiulyte, peer-reviewed paper, REDO, Cumulus Conference, Kolding, June 2017.
Abstract: Design education is mostly based on the visual values and expressions.
How do we REDO design education? This paper is questioning the predominance of
visual culture and investigating the new non-visual perspectives on fashion design
aesthetics. The main discussion of this paper is on sound as a design-thinking
material. This paper is focused on the exploration of sonic expressions and sonic
identities as the possibility for a new method of teaching on the discourse of nonvisual
aesthetics. The Sonic Images – a fashion exercise is presented as an example
of design-thinking with a sound that could lead to a new approach to teaching on
non-visual values of design objects.