Kirsti Itkonen
 
  FROM WINNIE THE POOH TO KILROY. Describing and Analyzing the Creative Process of an Art Textile.  
  Textile Design :   1681/2001
 
 
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The final project that has been made "The Pooh, Piglet & Kilroy were here" (146 x 194cm) is an art textile to be exhibited later. The object of the work has been to understand the makerīs own experiences and feelings in the creative process and to yield knowledge and material to improve the competence as a teacher. The intention was to throw oneself heuristically into the creative process of the work and to analyze it in a maker-centric and process-centric way to provide information through experiences and feelings, searching and discovering. The creative process of designing has been described and analyzed. The material consists of sketches, the contents of a notebook, personal experiences and describing the makerīs own affective thoughts during the process. A content analysis has been going on throughout the creative process in connection with valuations by reflecting the own process to existing theoritical knowledge. Theoretical knowledge has been used as a means of analysis, trying to explain and understand both the choice of subject of the textile and the method in which it was designed. The content analysis has been used to find out and comprehend the factors behind the subjective ideas and to explain their meanings and influences. After learning to know better the own designing process, the target was to search information on the processes of creative expression from the point of view of intuition. The strong recurrent features in makerīs own subjective creative process were evaluation and choice which influenced the development of the subject during the process. As the result of the examination of the working, the process of designing showed itself clearly as a soft system that has been described according to Checkland's soft systems methodology.

 
  Keywords: art textile creative expression creative process  
  Right of use: To be studied in the place where deposited. Can be freely copied in the place where deposited.  
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1681 File A4 Report, 39 pages
 
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