{"id":3983,"date":"2023-11-13T12:24:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T12:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/?page_id=3983"},"modified":"2023-11-13T12:57:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T12:57:34","slug":"speculative-textiles-building-a-martian-house","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/speculative-textiles-building-a-martian-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Speculative Textiles + Building a Martian House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/2023\/10\/04\/phd-seminar-series-autumn-2023\/\">PhD Seminar Series<\/a>, 15 November 2023<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s PhD Seminar with be an artists&#8217; talk + Q&amp;A, featuring special guest Anurita Chandola (Bristol, Reading).<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/files\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-13-at-12.53.08.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3988\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/files\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-13-at-12.53.08-218x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/files\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-13-at-12.53.08-218x300.png 218w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/files\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-13-at-12.53.08.png 489w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 85vw, 218px\" \/><\/a>Anurita is a fashion and textiles designer with 9 years&#8217; industry experience. She is currently working on various projects related to spacewear and space textiles (Profile here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anuritachandola.com\/\">https:\/\/www.anuritachandola.com\/<\/a>). She is also a teacher also through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eesh.co.uk\/\">Eesh<\/a>, a brand that aims to train and support Himalayan women in sustaining and promoting their work.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>She will be talking to us in this session about creating textiles and clothing for future space travellers. She was recently working on a Martian Habitat called <a href=\"https:\/\/buildingamartianhouse.com\/\">Building a Martian House<\/a> project that was a prototype of an actual house suitable for Mars. This was situated in M Shed Square, Bristol, UK, and she was leading the textiles and the clothing for this project. Her work represents a convergence of two worlds, where the infinite possibilities of space exploration intersect with sustainable practices<br \/>\nthat have been followed for generations.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/files\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-13-at-12.52.47.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3987\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/files\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-13-at-12.52.47-1024x394.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/files\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-13-at-12.52.47-1024x394.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/files\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-13-at-12.52.47-300x115.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/files\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-13-at-12.52.47-768x295.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/files\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-13-at-12.52.47-1200x461.png 1200w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/files\/2023\/11\/Screenshot-2023-11-13-at-12.52.47.png 1415w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PhD Seminar Series, 15 November 2023 This week&#8217;s PhD Seminar with be an artists&#8217; talk + Q&amp;A, featuring special guest Anurita Chandola (Bristol, Reading). Anurita is a fashion and textiles designer with 9 years&#8217; industry experience. She is currently working on various projects related to spacewear and space textiles (Profile here: https:\/\/www.anuritachandola.com\/). She is also &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/speculative-textiles-building-a-martian-house\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Speculative Textiles + Building a Martian House&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99787,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3983","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99787"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3983"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3990,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3983\/revisions\/3990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wsapgr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}