Wearable Objects and Curative Things

Introduction.- 1. Collaborating.- 1.1. Jana Melkumova-Reynolds, On Crutches, Choreography and (Crip) Care: Curative objects and palliative things in two performance pieces. -1.2. Emily Beaney, Breaking the Fall.- 1.3. Alison L Goodrum, Sitting Pretty: A dress history of the side-saddle habit, 'L'-shape design and adaptive wearables.- 1.4. Sonia Bernac, The Itches: embodiment in in the age of technological entanglement.- 2. Covering.- 2.1. Christopher M. Rudeen, Securing a Place in the Sun: Clothing, Exposure, and Health.- 2.2.- Andrew Groves, Palliative Prototypes or Therapeutic Functionality? Examining C.P. Company's Urban Protection Collection.- 2.3. Rosie Broadhead, Skin and textile interaction and the future of fashion as therapeutics.- 3. Controlling.- 3.1. Dawn Woolley, Desire Lines: Quantified-Self-Portraits produced with a fitness tracking watch.- 3.2. Alanna McKnight, "Health, Comfort, and Elegance": The Shocking Trend of Electric Corsets.- 3.3. Lucie Armstrong, Office Exercises.- 4 Communicatin.- 4.1. Garry Barker, Votives and charms: materialising health-related narratives through "sacred" objects.- 4.2 Katharina Ludwig, (Ad)Dressing Wounds.- 4.3 Anna Jamieson, Crazy Jane Hats and Maria Medallions: Consuming, Collecting and Containing Love's Madness.