Carla Morais

• University of Lisbon

Knitted products are, from the beginning, a democratic way of producing garments and of communicating the elements that are intrinsic to them. If, on the one hand, they need little technology to be developed, its technical elements can reveal a productive geography that can identify peoples and cultures. It is a constant journey between the materia...

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world; people are living differently in all aspects: the ways they are socializing, buying, or even thinking before doing something, have led to dramatic transformations in different types of business. Some companies are thriving while others are struggling to stay alive, restructuring their products management...

The use of innovative materials can aesthetically enrich the project, being applied as a merely differentiating or decorative factor, but more than that they can improve the comfort of the homes and achieve significant energy savings. In a first phase we will make a survey of the functions of textiles used in architecture. This is followed by a stu...

If the body is the starting point for an unlimited journey of sharing signals of communication and recognition, it is also a point of arrival for desires and sensations that we live and share in our personal and public sphere.

Clothing typologies and personal taste are determining factors that influence people to purchase and discard them in the same way. Design features, such as colour, shape, and texture, are characteristics that define the quality of the items that the market used to buy and use daily. However, regardless the quality concept, the comfort is a feature...

In garment and fashion design human and technical factors to take into account are multiple, and are reflected in numerous aspects of the product, process and relationship. Comfort of the objects to be projected and produced are an essential element that in many cases is left aside, favoring the aesthetic aspect and social representation. The knitt...

Evaluating all phases of Fashion Products, it is realized that the linear make-disposal model of Fashion has no longer future. This wasteful and polluting system has been replaced more and more by strategies based on a circular economy which aims to keep the highest clothing value, textiles and fibers during the use and re-enter the economy afterwa...

Osteoarthritis is multiple and rheumatic disease is by far the most common. It is a degenerative disease that nature involves the entire joint: the cartilage wears away and the bone that grows and becomes denser. Of all the pathologies that affect individuals from forty years of life osteoarthritis is undoubtedly the most common and it is estimated...

Ecological and ethical innovations, as well as new methodologies that meet the real needs of consumers or users are very important for fashion become more sustainable. However, the individual is, in the most cases, the main element for that. Generally the consumer throws away his garment not because it has “low quality” or “it is out of fashion” bu...