Phone:
(+45) 3527 7622
E-mail: marie.riegels.melchior@dkds.dk
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Research
Teaching and supervision within in the field of my research project
Research Projects
The working title of my PhD project is: "Danish Fashion. The Material Culture of Fashion, its Design Practice and Identity". In my project I explore what is Danish fashion from the theoretical perspective of new material culture theory. Within this theoretical frame I draw my attention to the works of the British anthropologist Daniel Miller and the French Sociologist Bruno Latour. From Miller I am inspired to perceive things and people as defined by each other and not as separate entities. Translated into my project this means that I am looking into the design practice of contemporary as well as historic Danish fashion designers in order to locate a definition of the identity of Danish fashion. From the works of Latour I find inspiration in his actor-network-theory and perceive Danish fashion as consisting of numerous amount of actors (this could be people, tings and immaterial phenomenon), all combined in networks unlimited to a given time and space.
With my project I intend to contribute to existing fashion research with a material culture perspective that integrate the material as well as the symbolic in its analytical perspective. And further, the results of the project should be able to systematically identify the design methods of Danish fashion. The project is part of Danmarks Designskole's research theme Design Theory and Methods and the PhD stipend is co-financed by Danmarks Designskole in collaboration with The Danish Museum of Decorative Arts.
Short Resume
2004- PhD Student, Centre for Design Research, Danmarks Designskole
2003-2004 Assisting Teaching Fellow, SAXO-Institute, Department of Archaeology and Ethnology, University of Copenhagen
2003 Co-curator of the dress exhibition En Kronprinsesse kommer til landet. Glimt fra Dronning Ingrids unge år, The Royal Danish Collection, Amalienborg
2002-2005 External Teaching Fellow, SAXO-Institute, Department of Archeology and Ethnology, University of Copenhagen
2001-2002 Polaire Weissman Fond Fellow, The Costume Institute, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
2001 MA, European Ethnology, University of Copenhagen
Selected Publications
Melchior, Marie Riegels (2004): "Med lov skal man land bygge", in: Marie Riegels Melchior, Marie Sandberg og Astrid Jespersen (ed.): Verden over - Syv kulturstudier i stat og samfund (Museun Tusculanums Press, in press).
Melchior, Marie Riegels (2004):"With a Sense of Style. Some Thoughts on the Practice of Collecting Dress Through the Example of Queen Ingrid of Denmark (1910-2000)", in: Ethnologia Scandinavica: Journal of Scandinavian Ethnology, vol. 34, 2004.
Melchior, Marie Riegels (2003): "Exhibition Review: Rudi Gernreich: Fashion Will Go Out of Fashion", in: Fashion Theory. The Journal of Dress, Body and Culture, Vol. 7, Issue 2, Oxford: Berg.
Melchior, Marie Riegels (2003): "En Kronprinsesse kommer til landet. Glimt fra Dronning Ingrids unge år". Exhibition catalouge. Editied by: Curator, Gerda Petri. Copenhagen: The Royal Danish Collection, Amalienborg.
Melchior, Marie Riegels (2002): selected articles in: Mads Nørgaard (ed.): Modeleksikon. Fra couture til kaos, Copenhagen: Politikens Forlag.
