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… Exploring design and nature
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… Woolume coming to its voluminous end
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… EcoAge Roundtable in Brussels: A fair phase-out of fossil fuels from the fashion industry
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 are.
The Plastic Elephant makes a splash
(…) we have found that food offers us two good guiding principles.
The first one is to eat up what is on your plate. The second is waste audits as a means to gain meaningful knowledge on what gets “eaten up” and what doesn’t.
In the Consumption Research Norway SIFO report The plastic elephant: Overproduction and synthetic fibers in sustainable textile strategies we examine national, international and corporate strategies for sustainable textiles to understand whether, and if so, how… The plastic elephant in the room: Who dares to talk about it?