Kate FletcherRoyal Danish Acadmy · Architecture Design Conservation
Kate Fletcher
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This article examines life writing as a research method to uncover new insights about the interrelationships between beings and place including with fashion and clothing. In it, the practice of using oneself as a site of enquiry is presented as a route to ecological understanding where finite, direct experience builds towards rooted, embodied, plur...
SECTION III: Standing: Standing to achieve a view
Living Landfill
Katarina Dimitrijevic
Celebrating the 5th anniversary of this publication, we offer an overview of the intentions and the contents of the book. "We now know that ecological urgency demands more than a tweak of designed objects, design processes and even design systems. Partnering with nature therefore is a more disruptive and deeper change for design than many imagine w...
As a movement, local food is well developed and its principles and practices widely appreciated. By contrast, the concepts and activity of fashion localism are far less understood. This essay looks to transfer local food experiences to the fashion context by reviewing a number of food-related initiatives and deliberating about ways in which the ins...
Global planetary boundaries confer limits to production and consumption of material goods. They also confer an obligation to experiment, as individuals and collectively as society, with less-materially-intensive, but no less exuberant, ways of living. This paper takes up this mantle and explores materials demand reduction through a focus on design,...
This book explores the ‘craft of use’, the cultivated, ordinary and ingenious ideas and practices that promote satisfying and resourceful use of garments; presenting them as an alternative, dynamic, experiential frame with which to articulate and foster sustainability in the fashion sector.
Here Kate Fletcher provides a broad imagining of sustainab...
This book explores the 'craft of use', the cultivated, ordinary and ingenious ideas and practices that promote satisfying and resourceful use of garments, presenting them as an alternative, dynamic, experiential frame with which to articulate and foster sustainability in the fashion sector. Here Kate Fletcher provides a broad imagining of sustainab...
About the Routledge Handbook of Sustainability and Fashion:
The clothing industry employs 25 million people globally, contributing to many livelihoods and the prosperity of communities, women's independence and the establishment of significant infrastructures in poorer countries. Yet the fashion industry is also a significant contributor to the deg...
This short digital publication offers a summary of the ideas and visions of the Craft of Use event held at London College of Fashion on 26th March 2014. The event marked the latest phase of research of the Local Wisdom project, generously funded by The Leverhulme Trust. Designed as a multi-layered, participative, non-conformist event, the Craft of...
This short digital publication offers a summary of the ideas and visions of the Craft of Use event held at London College of Fashion on 26th March 2014. The event marked the latest phase of research of the Local Wisdom project, generously funded by The Leverhulme Trust. Designed as a multi-layered, participative, non-conformist event, the Craft of...
From the publishers website:
Fully revised and updated, the second edition of Sustainable Fashion and Textiles: Design Journeys continues to define the field of design in fashion and textiles. Arranged in two sections, the first four chapters represent key stages of the lifecycle: material cultivation/extraction, production, use and disposal. The...
This paper sets out the experiences of and critical reflections on devising and delivering a Masters level fashion education course in sustainability at London College of Fashion, UK. The course, first established in 2008, has been created from a collaborative, participatory and ecological paradigm, and draws on an approach to fashion education tha...
Longer-lasting materials and products are often promoted as a strategy to increase resourcefulness and sustainability across product groups including fashion. Yet these gains depend on changed user behavior and consumption patterns, which in fashion in particular are influenced by
social and experiential dimensions, not just material products. Obso...
Publisher's description of the volume in which this chapter appears:
The definitive sourcebook on all aspects of sustainable fashion – not only the environmental issues presented by fast-moving fashion, but also the social impact of the industry. Packed with authoritative facts and inspiring images and ideas, this is an indispensable reference for...
Sustainable Fashion and Textiles: Design Journeys brings together for the first time information about lifecycle sustainability impacts of fashion and textiles, practical alternatives, design concepts and social innovation. It challenges existing ideas about the scope and potential of sustainability issues in fashion and textiles, and sets out a mo...
This book examines how sustainability has the potential to transform both the fashion system and the innovators who work within it.
Sustainability is arguably the defining theme of the twenty-first century. The issues in fashion are broad-ranging and include labour abuses, toxic chemicals use and conspicuous consumption, giving rise to an undeniabl...
In order to bring about change, sustainability has to be real to people. Yet we know very little about people’s everyday experiences of fashion and sustainability. For instance, how does it feel to wear a garment that connects us with others? What is our understanding of engaging with sustainability through the clothes we wear? Just as each of thes...
In order to bring about change, sustainability has to be real to people. Yet we know very little about people’s everyday experiences of fashion and sustainability. For instance, how does it feel to wear a garment that connects us with others? What is our understanding of engaging with sustainability through the clothes we wear? Just as each of thes...
In some circles, “fast” has become a proxy for a type of fashion that epitomizes ideas of unsustainability; yet high speed is not in itself a descriptor of unethical and/or environmentally damaging practices but a tool that is used to increase sales and deliver economic growth with attendant ecological and social effects. Questions about speed prob...
Shared Talent is a fashion for sustainability framework, developed by Dilys Williams to facilitate a means for fashion designers to exchange expertise with other protagonists across the supply chain, transcending traditional divisions, be they linguistic, geographic, or discipline based.
In 2009, Shared Talent India brought together a diverse group...
Introductory essay in Exhibition Catalogue for 'Material Actions'.
From the exhibition website:
The Material Actions exhibition is inspired by ideas that were explored in the March 2009 Textile Forum South West’s conference, Textile Footprint. The conference discussed the ethical investments in the practice of textiles and was a timely look at issu...
This chapter explores the role played by design in achieving more sustainable patterns of consumption that examines in detail a variety of approaches associated with clothes washing. The discussion has obvious relevance for all designed surroundings and includes various levels of approach, including a focus on products, results, needs, and issues a...
This paper describes an educational framework offering one possible approach to linking sustainability and design. This framework, developed as part of the demi project, provides links to information new to designers thereby challenging the design status quo. For example, it incorporates the integration of different communities within designing-oft...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Open University, 1999.
The Design for the Environment Multimedia Implementation Project – demi – links design and sustainability information in a Web-based resource and was set up in response to a number of UK Government reports which highlighted the dearth of knowledge and activity about sustainability in higher education design courses across the country. This paper de...