Cathryn Anneka Hall

Design School Kolding · Lab for Sustainability and Design

Background: The problem of difficult-to-recycle textile waste is an ongoing challenge. One of the issues is the lack of exchange between the recovery sector and design/manufacture of recycled materials. This paper seeks to addresses the gap in knowledge between sorting (in recovery) and blending activities (in manufacture), expanding current design...

Models such as the circular economy, offer guidance to actors from the fashion and textile industry on how to navigate the negative environmental, ethical, and social impacts of the sector's current and historic practices. The principles underpinning these models originate from the intersection of biology and general systems theory and have provide...

This paper explores the role visual prototyping by visual communication designers can play in the navigation and communication of textile design research. Typically, visual communication is only applied to dissemination of research activities-which happens at the end of a project. The authors argue that visual communication has more to offer when i...

ABSTRACT In the context of a transition to a more sustainable fashion and textile industry, blended textiles (materials where two or more different resources are combined) are a major issue. These are described as “monstrous hybrids” and used to create “Frankenstein products” that are difficult to recover and recycle. The circular economy champions...

This collection of cards introduces a range of methods that fashion designers can use to begin to understand their users which in turn can help them make better circular design choices. The cards have been developed as part of the ReSuit project for fashion designers situated in the industry. However, we hope they will be used and adapted by anybo...

This hybrid workshop aims to model diverse and inclusive stakeholder partnerships for circular economy challenges, where design will play a central role in visioning, convening and supporting multi-skill teams, who are each focused on utilizing a different, local waste stream. Drawing on a specific, developed case study of Laxta Wool within the reg...

The problem of difficult-to-recycle textile waste is usually laid at the designer’s door. However, the strategy ‘Design for Recycling’ is not only underexplored in the field of textile design, but the solutions offered are oversimplified and impractical for the complex materials that we have been producing. At the other end of the spectrum, much of...

Don’t be nervous. Circularity is the captain and she is picking her players - nobody wants to be picked last. We are consistently reminded that Chemical Recycling, although appearing to be the best player on the team, can hog the ball and won’t involve any of the other players. We still need training in Re-use and more practice shots with Re-manufa...

This paper builds on traditional portfolio annotation to aid the design researcher to capture and interpret practice-based research through design. Going beyond an object to understand the researcher’s observing, designing and making experiences the method spans systems, processes and materials. The approach is discussed through a short literature...

Purpose: The aim of this research paper is to provide new insights from the Prato recycling model for woollen materials. Specifically, to examine the barriers presented but also opportunities that wool recycling might offer for future innovation within mixed fibre textile recycling. Originality/value: This paper examines the established Prato mod...

This document brings together materials produced for and during the one-day PhD by Design Satellite Session taking place as part of DRS2018 on June 25, as well as the remaining DRS conference running June 26-28, 2018, Limerick, Ireland. In line with the DRS2018 theme of 'Catalyst', the PhD by Design Satellite Session explored how design can be a ca...