Megan Strickfaden
Biographic Data
| ID | 4218638 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Megan Strickfaden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Megan |
| FAMILY NAME | Strickfaden |
| SIGNATURE | STRICKFADEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6459-6737 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Revisiting the Past
This paper explores the revival of hanfu fashion in contemporary China through the theories on cultural memory. We examine how hanfu functions as a dynamic site of memory preservation and identity formation, mediated through material objects, inscription-based records, and bodily practices. Drawing on theories from memory studies, we look at distinctions among different types of memory and taxonomies of forgetting to demonstrate how the hanfu mov…
Multi-sensory methods
Cripistemologies are ways of knowing that emerge from the embodied experiences of disabled bodyminds, while multi-sensory methods value knowledge produced through haptic, visual, auditory and other sensory forms. Drawing on these approaches, this article proposes a crip methodology for fashion studies by exploring the value of combining research methods to honour the knowledge of disabled people and their sensory engagement in the world. We refle…
New Nordicities for Northern communities
We analyse the construction of new Nordicities, as in new and guiding discourses for urban development which engage with a Northern location. Spatial planning and place branding are proposed as mutually reinforcing instruments to support the strategic positioning of cities located in northern climes. Planning in such an environment must take on board urban and landscape design, not merely for esthetics but as necessary tools to integrate scales o…
Doing Embodied Mapping/s
Qualitative research often involves the collection of data from multiple sources, inclusive of the embodied and multisensorial. These differing data sources, that are not language based, pose difficulties for researchers. Often this multimodal data is collected alongside interviews, field notes and other language-based data and then translated into language. In the process of this translation, the embodied, relational, and multisensorial aspects …
Doing Dis/ordered Mappings
Since knowledge is the commodity museums produce, then understanding how this knowledge is produced, shaped, borrowed, and translated, and through what forces, is critical to creating inclusive museums. Through studies of three national Canadian museums, we came to an understanding of how the shaping of space, physical access, and access to knowledge is used and produced to create inclusive museums, not as a product but as an ongoing process. Doi…
Taken for Granted
This paper provides a critical examination of the taken for granted nature of the codes/guidelines used towards the creation of designed spaces, their social relations with designers, and their agency in designing for people with disabilities. We conducted case studies at three national museums in Canada where we began by questioning societal representations of disability within and through material culture through the potential of actor-network …
Spatial Explorations and Digital Traces
Descriptions of legal blindness, as lived experience—involving continual movement between the world of sightedness and blindness—are largely absent within medical models of disability. In an effort to challenge depictions of blindness as pathology, researchers in this project worked with participants who are legally blind, in a co-designed exploration of built spaces in the city of Edmonton, Canada. In this article we describe a collaborative res…
Im}materiality
“{Im}materiality: Designing for More Sense/s” is an edited compilation of articles that explore the complexity of embodied human experience within the built environment. A particular aim of these collected works is to look toward how deepening one’s understandings of the experiences of bodies in space and place can contribute to future built environments. The contributors to this special issue are trained in practice-based disciplines such as arc…
Reversing the {Im}material Sense of a Nonplace
This article explores the Brussels metro as a nonplace and considers the impact of blindness on nonplace. In discussing the {im}materiality of the metro, this article focuses on the experience of metro-time as “waiting and anticipation” and metro-space as “alone-together.” Along with this, the notion of a dialogue with blindness is introduced into this nonplace. We explore the relation between metro and blindness as dialogue: the meeting and aver…
Reversing the {Im}material Sense of a Nonplace
This article explores the Brussels metro as a nonplace and considers the impact of blindness on nonplace. In discussing the {im}materiality of the metro, this article focuses on the experience of metro-time as “waiting and anticipation” and metro-space as “alone-together.” Along with this, the notion of a dialogue with blindness is introduced into this nonplace. We explore the relation between metro and blindness as dialogue: the meeting and aver…
Taken for Granted
This paper provides a critical examination of the taken for granted nature of the codes/guidelines used towards the creation of designed spaces, their social relations with designers, and their agency in designing for people with disabilities. We conducted case studies at three national museums in Canada where we began by questioning societal representations of disability within and through material culture through the potential of actor-network …
Im}materiality
“{Im}materiality: Designing for More Sense/s” is an edited compilation of articles that explore the complexity of embodied human experience within the built environment. A particular aim of these collected works is to look toward how deepening one’s understandings of the experiences of bodies in space and place can contribute to future built environments. The contributors to this special issue are trained in practice-based disciplines such as arc…
Doing Embodied Mapping/s
Qualitative research often involves the collection of data from multiple sources, inclusive of the embodied and multisensorial. These differing data sources, that are not language based, pose difficulties for researchers. Often this multimodal data is collected alongside interviews, field notes and other language-based data and then translated into language. In the process of this translation, the embodied, relational, and multisensorial aspects …
Doing Dis/ordered Mappings
Since knowledge is the commodity museums produce, then understanding how this knowledge is produced, shaped, borrowed, and translated, and through what forces, is critical to creating inclusive museums. Through studies of three national Canadian museums, we came to an understanding of how the shaping of space, physical access, and access to knowledge is used and produced to create inclusive museums, not as a product but as an ongoing process. Doi…
Multi-sensory methods
Cripistemologies are ways of knowing that emerge from the embodied experiences of disabled bodyminds, while multi-sensory methods value knowledge produced through haptic, visual, auditory and other sensory forms. Drawing on these approaches, this article proposes a crip methodology for fashion studies by exploring the value of combining research methods to honour the knowledge of disabled people and their sensory engagement in the world. We refle…
Im}materiality
“{Im}materiality: Designing for More Sense/s” is an edited compilation of articles that explore the complexity of embodied human experience within the built environment. A particular aim of these collected works is to look toward how deepening one’s understandings of the experiences of bodies in space and place can contribute to future built environments. The contributors to this special issue are trained in practice-based disciplines such as arc…
Reversing the {Im}material Sense of a Nonplace
This article explores the Brussels metro as a nonplace and considers the impact of blindness on nonplace. In discussing the {im}materiality of the metro, this article focuses on the experience of metro-time as “waiting and anticipation” and metro-space as “alone-together.” Along with this, the notion of a dialogue with blindness is introduced into this nonplace. We explore the relation between metro and blindness as dialogue: the meeting and aver…
Taken for Granted
This paper provides a critical examination of the taken for granted nature of the codes/guidelines used towards the creation of designed spaces, their social relations with designers, and their agency in designing for people with disabilities. We conducted case studies at three national museums in Canada where we began by questioning societal representations of disability within and through material culture through the potential of actor-network …
Spatial Explorations and Digital Traces
Descriptions of legal blindness, as lived experience—involving continual movement between the world of sightedness and blindness—are largely absent within medical models of disability. In an effort to challenge depictions of blindness as pathology, researchers in this project worked with participants who are legally blind, in a co-designed exploration of built spaces in the city of Edmonton, Canada. In this article we describe a collaborative res…
Doing Dis/ordered Mappings
Since knowledge is the commodity museums produce, then understanding how this knowledge is produced, shaped, borrowed, and translated, and through what forces, is critical to creating inclusive museums. Through studies of three national Canadian museums, we came to an understanding of how the shaping of space, physical access, and access to knowledge is used and produced to create inclusive museums, not as a product but as an ongoing process. Doi…
Doing Embodied Mapping/s
Qualitative research often involves the collection of data from multiple sources, inclusive of the embodied and multisensorial. These differing data sources, that are not language based, pose difficulties for researchers. Often this multimodal data is collected alongside interviews, field notes and other language-based data and then translated into language. In the process of this translation, the embodied, relational, and multisensorial aspects …
New Nordicities for Northern communities
We analyse the construction of new Nordicities, as in new and guiding discourses for urban development which engage with a Northern location. Spatial planning and place branding are proposed as mutually reinforcing instruments to support the strategic positioning of cities located in northern climes. Planning in such an environment must take on board urban and landscape design, not merely for esthetics but as necessary tools to integrate scales o…
Multi-sensory methods
Cripistemologies are ways of knowing that emerge from the embodied experiences of disabled bodyminds, while multi-sensory methods value knowledge produced through haptic, visual, auditory and other sensory forms. Drawing on these approaches, this article proposes a crip methodology for fashion studies by exploring the value of combining research methods to honour the knowledge of disabled people and their sensory engagement in the world. We refle…
Revisiting the Past
This paper explores the revival of hanfu fashion in contemporary China through the theories on cultural memory. We examine how hanfu functions as a dynamic site of memory preservation and identity formation, mediated through material objects, inscription-based records, and bodily practices. Drawing on theories from memory studies, we look at distinctions among different types of memory and taxonomies of forgetting to demonstrate how the hanfu mov…
Sociology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Crafts, Textile, and Design (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Context (archaeology (3 works) · Embodied cognition (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 works) · Participatory Visual Research Methods (3 works) · Public relations (3 works)