Removing the silk gloves and pulling a (historic) punch
Wardrobe and Climate was the over-arching theme for a CHANGE event at the Norwegian Folk Museum.
Exploring design and nature
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…
Woolume coming to its voluminous end
“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…
Call for papers for the special issue of Fashion Theory
Mending matters: cultures and contexts of clothing repair
Lasting, durability and lifespan: Looking closer at the terms
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.
Used but not used up – what do we know about textile waste?
Recording and presentations are now available from the hybrid event presenting state of knowledge on textile waste streams.
EcoAge Roundtable in Brussels: A fair phase-out of fossil fuels from the fashion industry
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…
Klippe, klippe, klippe: A changing discussion of gender
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 tramples into the international conference room
The Plastic Elephant makes a splash
Thriving without growth
The Amsterdam Economic Board launches a learning journey for clothing companies to reduce their production volumes.
EU wants data on textile waste, and we have the answer
(…) 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…
The plastic elephant in the room: Who dares to talk about it?
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…