Workshop – Toolbox | MATERIAL AFTERLIVES METAMORPHOSIS AS A CREATIVE METHOD by Susan Marshall

WORKSHOP – TOOLBOX

MATERIAL AFTERLIVES

METAMORPHOSIS AS A CREATIVE METHOD

Susan Marshall

27 MAR. 2026 | 10:00 AM | ESAP Auditorium

This interdisciplinary workshop proposes metamorphosis as a design strategy and explores the idea of reuse and reconstruction as a methodological tool for creative experimentation. Through deconstruction, reinterpretation and recombination, participants will transform discarded materials into hybrid structures that interact with the body in space and reflect on sustainability as both a practical necessity and a political position within contemporary creative production.

Biography

Dr. Susan Marshall is a costume designer and professor of Fashion History at the FIT Fashion Institute of Technology, Department of Design, Politecnico di Milano. She lectures in Costume Design at AFOL Moda Milano as well as internationally. As a costume designer, she has worked for Teater Asterions Hus, Copenhagen, La Dual Band, Milan, and for the prison theatre companies San Vittore Globe Theatre and PuntoZero in Milan. She is a member of the Critical Costume steering group and has contributed to journals and books in the areas of fashion and costume. Her book Insubordinate Costume: Inspiring Performance was published by Routledge in 2024. 

https://www.susanmarshall.info

PROGRAMME:

Organization:

Rute Figueiredo_Linha de Investigação Commonplace | CEAA

Jorge Palinhos_Curso de Teatro | ESAP

Pedro Crispim_Pós-Graduação Direção de Arte | ESAP

Participation:

API | Fine Arts and Intermedia

AVF | Visual Arts – Photography

CAV | Cinema and Audiovisual

DC | Communication Design

MIA | Integrated Master in Architecture

CEAA | Cluster ARCHMEDIUM

This event is supported by national funds through the FCT – Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P.,within the scope of project UID/04041/2025 – Centro de Estudos Arnaldo Araújo