On 17th April 2024, UCRF (Union of Concerned Researchers in Fashion) hosted a Wardrobe Methods Event in conjunction with the CHANGE research project to explore a way of researching the contents and dynamics of wardrobes.… Wardrobe Methods webinar opens up the field
EU’s Joint Research Center (JRC) has asked for contributions to the survey ‘Comments to the working document: Preparatory study on textiles for product policy instruments – 1st milestone‘. During March 18th – 19th, the JRC… Feedback delivered on ESPR 1st milestone
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: Richa Jha, India, Ambassador @RemakeOurWorld, Member @UCRF Aim of the study It was a fact-finding study to create awareness and behavioural change. The objective of the study The objective of the study was to… Wardrobe Size (Volume of Clothing) and Shopping Practices in India
The main point made during EcoAge and MEP Alessandra Moretti’s joint event in the EU Parliament was to link the increased plastification in the fashion sector with social injustice upstream and downstream in the value-chain.… Fashionscapes for Transformation: EU addresses plastification and a just transition
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… Unravelling neurodivergent sensory experiences with clothing
Wardrobe and Climate was the over-arching theme for a CHANGE event at the Norwegian Folk Museum.
The Plastic Elephant makes a splash
In a position paper from the Change and Wasted Textiles projects, authors Kate Fletcher, Irene Maldini, Ingun Grimstad Klepp, Kirsi Laitala, Jens Måge and Tone Skårdal Tobiasson have addressed the background document from EU’s Joint… Ecodesign position paper: Textiles and footwear
Two articles from Clothing Research at Consumption Research Norway have been accepted by the journal Fibers and are accessible online. The two articles are entitled Reducing plastic: Opportunities and obstacles for coarser wool in consumer… Double whammy for Clothing Research
March 14th, 2023, 10 am to 12 noon. Athene 1 (auditorium), Pilestredet 46, OsloMet.
For LCA-based tools and category rules, there is a central idea of a “functional unit”. How this will function in the ongoing work with EU’s PEFCR (Product Environmental Footprint Category Rules), is based on the… A functioning ‘functional unit’