Introduction: Textile Intersections-Textile Discipline at Cross-Roads

摘要

Multidisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity and trans-disciplinarity (Nimkulrat et al. 2020) are frequently-courted concepts testifying to the high level of specialisation of scientific research and of the need to work collaboratively. These connections can be interpreted as an aspect of the interdependencies between science and technology (what is commonly known as "technosciences") which are often realized as collaborations between different specialists and institutional structures. If "technoscientific productivity" (Klein 2005) relates to an empiric epistemic model in which there is a prevalence of "techne" (doing) over "episteme" (knowing), the "science in action" perspective advanced by Bruno Latour (Latour 1999) translates the way science is done today in both its instrumental and institutional reality, as opposed to science idealist constructions. In an age in which the idea of expertise is challenged (Latour 2014), concepts such as interdisciplinarity and multidisciplinarity are to be addressed with even more consideration. Design as a science between scales (Heinzel and Hinestroza 2020) is dependent on both: the tools used in the measurement, the visualisation and the treatment of the material world, as on the (participatory) tools to understand and to represent the social phenomena. As a constructivist discipline, design has to deal not only with the analysis and the understanding of different natural phenomena, but has to take into account the possible impact of design interventions on everybody and everyday life. The high degree of specializations that exist in different scientific fields make it even more difficult to find adequate concepts that translate from one scale to another.