Author: Anna Schytte Sigaard, PhD Student, Consumption Research Norway (SIFO), Oslo Metropolitan University. Aims and objectives The wardrobe studies method has been a central part of my PhD project entitled “Want Not, Waste Not: A…
Author: Maureen Selina Laverty, PhD Candidate, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway. Aim Wardrobe studies have formed an integral part of my PhD research entitled Sensory Nourishment. I collaborate with people who are neurodivergent: people on the autism…
Annebella Pollen, Professor of Visual and Material Culture, University of Brighton, UK In 2019, I shadowed an English house clearance company who clear unwanted goods from homes to observe what happens to clothes at the…
Wardrobe and Climate was the over-arching theme for a CHANGE event at the Norwegian Folk Museum.
A new, limited-edition publication, edited by Kate Fletcher, Research Professor at SIFO, and Louise St. Pierre, Associate Professor at Emily Carr University in Vancouver, has been published, exploring design places, practices and senses – all…
Hybrid seminar Thursday November 9th, 2023, 2:30-4:00 PM
“Will I have to change my sheep?” was the first question Piotr Kohut had asked when the Center for Regional Produce in Koniaków was asked to be a partner in the Woolum bilateral project financed…
The Lasting project’s end seminar discussed if durability and lifespan is relevant for all product groups, or fails to address the actual pressing issues for some, such as textiles.
Recording and presentations are now available from the hybrid event presenting state of knowledge on textile waste streams.
The ethical issues are often discussed separate from environmental issues, it is high time they are discussed in the same room. Therefore, a huge thanks to EcoAge who arranged an important roundtable, and in the…
There is little in our field of study that is not gendered, it concerns the clothes themselves, how they are used, who those of us who are actually studying clothes are and who our informants…
The Plastic Elephant makes a splash