Jessie Myfanwy Stainton

Thesis title: Textiles as Method: Intellectual Disability, Sensory Knowledge and Communication in Participatory Research-Creation  

Jessie is an emergent researcher and artist completing her Masters in Media Studies at Concordia University. Her research-creation thesis explores intellectual disability, sensory design and storytelling through textile creation. Drawing on co-design strategies, she utilizes craft-based methodology and textiles-as-media to explore the boundaries of communication, addressing the sensory hierarchies embedded within. Interdisciplinary by nature, her areas of interest weave around her textile practice, critical disability studies, affect and feminist theories, sustainability and questions of corporeality. Jessie is core member of the Access in the Making Lab and a member of the Centre for Sensory Studies, Textiles & Materiality Milieux Cluster, and the Feminist Media Studio.

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