Textile waste as an environmental challenge – A Knowledge Base for What Now? The Change Lab (Hva nå? Endringslaben) – Nasjonalt vitenarkiv The report, written by Kirsi Laitala, discusses the significant environmental challenges posed by… New report summarizing knowledge on the environmental challenges associated with textile waste.
A new open-access article in Scientific Reports (Nature Portfolio) explores how communities across the globe define and practice garment durability. The study, titled “Understanding garment durability through local lenses: a participatory study with communities across… New study highlights how cultural and local contexts shape the longevity of clothing
The 2025 SCORAI Europe Conference took place at Lund University in Sweden on April 8-10. SCORAI (Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative) is an international network of researchers and practitioners focused on sustainable consumption. This… Clothing Research scores at SCORAI 2025
Chalmers University In the heart of Gothenburg hosted the defense for Erik Klint on September 6th. Klint’s PhD, consisting of 5 published articles and some additional published material, was discussed with professional curiosity and benevolence,… New PhD makes a splash: The function of the laundry and the limitation in self-reported data
Volumes, policy measures and Targeted Producer Responsibility all fitted into discussions the week before Easter, where some of us jumped back and forth between Webex, Zoom and Teams, recordings and live webinars. The take-aways are… TPR gets some serious airplay
Author: Joshua M. Bluteau, UK, Coventry University, Social Anthropologist, @anthrodandy Aim of study This method was developed as part of a broader research project catalogued in the book ‘Dressing Up’ (Bluteau, 2022). During this period,… Ethnographic Wearing
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
(…) 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.
Fashion met cultural history in the project VikingGold, and the two were woven together into a beautiful wool fabric, that found its way to museum exhibits and Norwegian national tv as the most sustainable fabric… VikingGold: Weaving History and Fashion together
