Selected Publications
PhD Thesis
Handcock, T 2014, Skin That Wears: Body-site as a context for designing wearable artefacts, PhD thesis, School of Fashion and Textiles, College of Design and Social Context, RMIT University
Book Chapters
Handcock, T & T Joannides 2021, ‘Urban Flâneur: A Site-Responsive Walking Methodology for Fashion Design’ in Experiential Walks for Urban Design: Revealing, Representing, and Activating the Sensory Environment, Springer, pp. 275-288.
Handcock, T 2019, ‘Touch and Trace: Ethical Creative Practices for a Phenomenology of Skin’, in K MacNeill, B Bolt and M McPherson (eds), The Meeting of Aesthetics and Ethics in the Academy, Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429197321.
Featured in: McLeod, R, Sumartojo, S, Anderson, C, Sutila, N and Hogan, S 2019, The Exchange at Knowledge Market, Melbourne Books, Melbourne.
Handcock, T 2014, ‘The eternal grind: Bodies as dust, bodies of dust’, in K Buccieri (ed), Body Tensions: Beyond Corporeality in Time and Space, Inter-Disciplinary Press, Oxford, United Kingdom, pp. 197–211.
Handcock, T 2013, ‘The eternal grind: Human bodies reduced to dust’, in L McLean, L Stafford and M Weeks (eds), Exploring Bodies in Time and Space, Inter-Disciplinary Press, Oxford, United Kingdom, pp. 217–226.
Conference Papers
Handcock, T & V Prideaux, S Kraan, R Van Amber, E Yench, J Underwood 2021, ‘Reflecting on Place and Materials: Interdisciplinarity Practices for Fashion’, conference presentation paper, IFFTI 2021 conference, Fashioning Resurgence: Our Time is Now, 26-28 October 2021, Pearl Academy, India.
Handcock, T 2020, ‘Designing urban site-responsive fashion’, conference presentation paper, Critical Fashion Studies Conference, 27-18 February 2020, School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
Handcock, T 2016, ‘Toward a situated fashion practice: Place-making through exhibition and body-site’, conference presentation paper, The End of Fashion: An International Conference, 8-9 December 2016, College of Creative Arts, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand.
Handcock, T 2016, ‘Touch and Trace: Ethical methodologies for encountering Körper skin in critically reflective design practice’, conference presentation paper, Bodily Matters: Human Biomatter in Art Materials / Aesthetics / Ethics, 7-8 July 2016, University College London, Institute of Advanced Studies, London.
Handcock, T 2013, ‘Invisible man: Literature and the body in design practice‘, in E Brandt, P Ehn, TD Johansson, MH Reimer, T Markussen and A Vallgårda (eds), Proceedings of Nordic Design Research Conference 2013, 9-12 June 2013, Malmö, Sweden, pp. 274–282.
Handcock, T 2012, ‘Transgressing Boundaries: Skin in the Construction of Bodily Interior‘, in S Attiwill (ed), Proceedings of 2012 IDEA Symposium, 6-9 September 2012, Perth, Australia, pp. 1–8.
Journal Articles
Handcock, T 2013, ‘Revelation and the Unseen in H. G. Wells’s The Invisible Man‘, Colloquy: Text Theory Critique, vol. 25, pp. 40-57.
Exhibition Reviews
Handcock, T 2017, ‘The End of Fashion exhibition, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand, 8–9 December 2016’, exhibition review, Craft Research, vol. 8 no.1, pp. 127-134. doi: 10.1386/crre.8.1.127_1
Selected Presentations and Panels
2021 Critical Conversations, ‘Ethical and sustainability practices, material innovation and the digital transformation is changing the fashion and textiles industry requires us to work in more collaborative ways and within planetary boundaries‘, workshop talk, IFFTI x RMIT Workshop, online
2020 Design Lab: Body Future, artist talk, Design Tasmania x MONA FOMA, Launceston TAS
2019 All the Jewellery, ‘What do you think of when I say the word ‘jewellery’?’, panelist, RMIT Design Hub, Melbourne VIC
2016 The End of Fashion: An International Conference, ‘Toward a situated fashion practice: Place-making through exhibition and body-site’, conference presentation paper, College of Creative Arts, Massey University, New Zealand
2016 Bodily Matters: Human Biomatter in Art Materials / Aesthetics / Ethics, ‘Touch and Trace: Ethical methodologies for encountering Körper skin in critically reflective design practice’, conference presentation, University College London, Institute of Advanced Studies, London.
2015 Peripheral Visions, panelist, First Site Gallery, VAMFF, Melbourne VIC
2014 Transformations: Art and the City, symposium presentation, RMIT Design Hub, Melbourne VIC
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