Weaving the sources

Abstract

Sources are the foundation of all research, as stated in the prologue, and it is essential to ‘navigate’ through their diversity. Their multiple, fluid and mutable condition makes working with them a task similar to that of weaving. The architectures constructed and those imagined in different media, graphic materials, oral testimonies, bibliographic and digital resources and archives, to name but a few, are interwoven as if they were warp and woof to create the framework of the research. Weaving - from the Latin texere, from whose past participle, textus, the word ‘text’ comes from - is the action of composing, ordering and placing with method in a material sense and also figuratively through ideas and thoughts. An activity linked from its origins to architecture (in which Semper ciphered the tent as an archetype and which explains the reverberation of certain decorative motifs throughout geography and throughout history) and to the work of people, as Irene Vallejo vindicates through her weavers of words and stories (texts are, in fact and according to the Dle, statements or coherent sets of oral or written statements).