Episode 92. Adaptive Fashion and Inclusive Design
Raising Kellan
English - July 14, 2023 12:39 - 30 minutes - 42.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsParenting Kids & Family Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Today I chat with Alex Sargent Capps, Allie Schmidt and Stella Barron about Adaptive Fashion. Alex has served on the Vanderbilt University Theatre faculty since 2001. She is currently the director of the Fiber Arts Build (FAB) Lab at Vanderbilt’s Wond’ry Center for Innovation, serving the Vanderbilt and Nashville community by providing sewing and clothing design instruction to support people of all skill levels in the development of their creative ideas. Alex teaches costume design, fashion history, adaptive and sustainable fashion, focusing on how the process and product of design, through all mediums, most especially textile art, enhances the quality of our lives and relates to important issues in our contemporary world.
Allie Schmidt, is the owner of Disability Dame Consulting, where she work with businesses to help create products and marketing campaigns that are accessible to the disability community. She identifies as physically disabled from a rare, undiagnosed illness that has left her arms paralyzed. She have a three-year-old son named Asher and a baby girl due in September 2023. She initially started Disability Dame as a website that gives tips to moms with disabilities and chronic illnesses. However, she quickly realized that what companies really needed was marketing and product development advice from someone with the lived experience of disability - that’s when she pivoted into more of a consulting role. She is now working with Alex on building an adaptive fashion lab at Vanderbilt University‘s, The Wond’ry.
Timeline:
01:42 Introductions and Visual Descriptions.
04:24 Allie Schmidt: Disability Dame Consulting.
07:17 Alex Sargent Capps and the work done at the Wond'ry Vanderbilt Center of Innovation.
08:55 What is adaptive fashion and the a description of the adaptive cape designed for Allie.
12:15 Stella weighing in from a mom's point of view on what she sees in the adaptive fashion realm and some of V's needs.
14:18 Bespoke vs universal solutions vs cost.
18:01 Revival in sewing interest.
20:25 Allie's lived experience of parenting with a disability
24:24 The language of disability: Universal design vs Adaptive Fashion vs Inclusive Design.
25:05 Closing Remarks.
An edited transcript is available at www.raisingkellan.org
This episode is sponsored by Dyersburg State Community College
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