Research Lines
Knowledge is not organized into isolated boxes. At Devir Bordado, inquiry unfolds across three lines of research that do not work as separate departments but as territories that continually intertwine. They are distinct perspectives on one central question: how does making produce knowledge, memory and transformation?
Each line has its own questions, methods and fields of dialogue, but all share embroidery as language, method and conceptual operator. Below, we present these lines and the practical manifestations that emerge from each of them.
Research Line I
Matter, Botany and Permanence
This line investigates the relationships between the plant world, textile practices and documentation. Here, embroidery is understood not merely as a representation of plant forms, but as a method of observation. The gesture of embroidering a plant is a form of study, in which representation and material experience take part in producing the record and the memory.
The interest lies in how material practices and documentation systems can produce alternative ways of recording, preserving and transmitting knowledge about the plant world — creating a dialogue between botanical science and artistic sensibility.
Manifestation on the site
This territory takes shape in the Textile Herbarium, a living documentation laboratory where plants, embroidery and memory meet to investigate new forms of record.
Research Line II
Information, Documentation and Knowledge Systems
This line investigates the ways in which information, objects, practices and experiences can be organized, represented, related and preserved through documentary and digital systems.
Embroidery is understood as a documentary object: an artifact that carries information about materials, techniques, gestures, times and contexts. The investigation moves from the isolated object to the relationships that can be built around it, reflecting on how forms of organization and representation shape what can be found and preserved.
Manifestation on the site
This territory prepares the ground for the development of open tools for knowledge organization. Soon, this space will host a practical experiment in information representation.
Research Line III
Culture, Memory and the Transmission of Knowledge
This line investigates the relationships between memory, material culture, experience and the transmission of knowledge. Embroidery is understood as a cultural practice that crosses generations, territories and ways of life, carrying memories and producing meanings.
The investigation is not limited to embroidery itself, but expands to understand how practices, symbols and knowledge are transmitted, reinterpreted and transformed over time. What remains does not remain because it was preserved motionless, but because it continues to be produced and transformed.
Manifestations on the site
This is the line that best shows the dynamics of the laboratory, as it has a “before” and an “after”. The raw material in motion is found on the Blog, the public notebook where reflections, hypotheses and the research process become visible. The systematized result of this investigation, in turn, takes shape in the Publications space, where articles, theses and essays on these dynamics are brought together.