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Research
Research interests
- Design heritage as a driver for innovation policy in the textile industry
- Narrative and material culture of textile production, with special interests in community narratives and retention of textile heritage
- Speculative thinking on textiles and interdisciplinarity through film, weaving and writing
Current research
As a weaver and digital media artist, Clio has built a body of work that visually explores how cloth can function as a repository of personal narratives and material histories. Working with post production techniques to construct the digital screen as a fabric, she has developed an original visual language where video images are informed by textile methodologies such as folding, weaving, layering, quilting and lace. The consistent aim of the research has been to engage audiences with valorising and recovering textile skills, the shared cultural significance of making cloth and the renewal of industry informed by heritage and social values.
In 2017 Sustainability and the Social Fabric. Europe’s new textile Industries was published by Bloomsbury Academic. Ongoing research explores how public policy can help retain textile manufacturing heritage, and to what extent the creative social capital of skilled textile manufacturing communities is enabling growth and innovation in EU textile and fashion SMEs. This underlying question is at the centre of all recent outputs. Her research findings indicate that textile making can be understood as a social and progressive process of identity creation, inflected by the clustering of diverse narratives.
Clio’s current focus is on how these narratives of construction engage with social values, and by extension, policy agendas and entrepreneurial environments in support of the creative industries. She is involved with the Creative Industries Federation, Creative Skillset, Westminster Media Forum, and SMEs that have developed educational accreditation to upskill fragile local communities. Her most recent research is aimed at exploring collaborative creation of new products and socially sustainable manufacturing models.
Since 2008, Clio has been working with other international stakeholders on EU funded projects, exploring design heritage as a driver for innovation policy in the textile industry. Her scholarly work explores the narrative and material culture of textile production, with special interests in community narratives and retention of textile heritage. Clio publishes speculative thinking on textiles and interdisciplinarity through film, weaving and writing. She is co-author of Sustainability and the Social Fabric - Europe’s new textile industries, 2017, Bloomsbury Academic.
Competitively funded research projects:
Academic project leader: EurotexId, EU Culture Programme programme project, 2008-2010
Research fellow: Plustex, Interreg IVC project, European Regional Development Fund, 2011-2014.
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Biography
Professor Clio Padovani is a senior academic with expertise in Textiles. Between 2019 and 2022 she was Deputy Head of School (Education) for Winchester School of Art, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Southampton.
Clio has a 1st class honours BA from the Tapestry programme at Edinburgh College of Art and is a graduate of the Royal College of Art.
Her PhD addressed the links between innovation, craft skills, heritage as a programme of work titled: Banal and Splendid Form: revaluing textile makers’ social and poetic identity as a strategy for textile manufacturing innovation.
Clio has a track record as an exhibiting artist in tapestry and digital media. She was one of the first UK artists in textiles to innovate in the field using video and the moving image; one of her video and tapestry works, "Own Time", was the first media piece to be purchased for Craft Council's national textile collection. As an academic, Clio taught textiles between 1995 and 2014, as Senior Lecturer and Research Fellow at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. Between 2003 and 2008 Clio was Director of Undergraduate Studies at WSA, leading a School wide curriculum restructure and new programme development. She has held External Examiner posts at Manchester Metropolitan University and Norwich University of the Arts. She is Senior Fellow of the HEA, since 2012, and a mentor and panel reviewer for the University’s Advance HE professional accreditation scheme.
Prizes
- Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence (CATE) (2018)
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