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Join us for a thematic session at the PLATE 2025 conference in July
2025 is the last year for the CHANGE project and one of the closing activities is a thematic session at the Product Lifetimes and the Environment (PLATE) conference. The thematic session on “Rebound effects and critical views on product durability”, co-chaired by Irene Maldini, Ingun Klepp, Kirsi Laitala, Eléonore Maitre-Ekern, Harald Wieser welcomes contributions until November 29th, 2024.
The latest…..
Books
Local, Slow and Sustainable Fashion
Wool as a Fabric for Change
Ingun Grimstad Klepp og Tone Skårdal Tobiasson (eds.), 2022
Inclusive Consumptions
Immigrants’ Access to and Use of Public and Private Goods and Services
Anita Borch , Ivan Harsløf , Ingun Grimstad Klepp & Kirsi Laitala (eds.), 2019
Publications
News
Designa: Seeing design with new eyes
The Wool museum and universitty in Covilhã, Portugal hosted the Designa conference, where Clothing Research’s Ingun Grimstad Klepp and Kate Fletcher were both key note speakers. Here is their report: Kate and I felt very honoured and privileged…
Thematic session at PLATE 2025
Join us for a thematic session at PLATE conference in Denmark (July 2025). 2025 is the last year for the CHANGE project and one of the closing activities is a thematic session at the Product Lifetimes and the…
Clothing Research at ESA 2024
The European Sociological Association’s main biennial event this year took the clothing researchers to Porto! When: 27th – 30th August 2024Where: University of Porto, Portugal Set on the beautiful backdrop of Porto, the main themes of the 16th…
Events you can take part in
– The futures we IMAGINE
IMAGINE project end seminar When: December 10th – 15th 2024 Where: Litteraturhuset, Oslo
DESIGNA — International Conference on Design Research
24-25 October, Covilhã, Portugal
Wild Dress
May 6 2024, 12:00-17:00 CET. Hawkwood May Day Festival.
#themes
Here is an overview of the themes that our research covers. Click on a theme to find publications and further reading.
Our research projects
Here you can find the research projects that we are currently working on.
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