ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how ethical values can be developed and enacted through a creative practice research approach by examining the framework and issues surrounding creative practice research projects that deal with bodily matter derived and separated from human bodies. The project method involved gathering traces of skin cells from multiple bodies in order to gain a greater understanding of qualities of ‘wear’ and enable discourse around the duration of bodies and dress and the distance between bodies and dress, as well as ways these might intersect and intertwine. The practical insight and ethical know-how gained through the project was underpinned by phenomenological thinking, which acted as a basis for how human bodies could be approached in the context of creative practice research. The Dust Project is a creative practice research project that forms part of an over-arching investigation of the human body as a site for designing and dressing.
