Our group researched collaborative artist Lucy Orta who's main body of work consists of something she calls Refuge Wear. A fashion, architecture hybrid her designs a wearable pieces of clothing that one can actually live in. The concept came to Orta after the social and economic crisis of the Gulf War and the first Iraq war, the pieces were originally designed and given as "gifts" to the refuges of war and the homeless who where sleeping rough. The work is designed to a high and professional spec, being completly practical for a tough existance. I think Orta is trying to bring about a new kind of global community spirit through her work, this is design with a genuine social conscience.
The main use I took from todays research session, and from Lucy Orta, is that though the process of a project may not be entirely collaborative simply having the concept of the work as collaboration is enough, in my opinion, to deem the work colloborative.
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