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Life cycle assessment (LCA) of remanufactured electrical and electronic products: A review of methodological choices
Get PDF“Spring Cleaning”: Skill-sharing towards conscious clothing consumption
Get PDFThis article discusses the case study of “Spring Cleaning”, a one-off event comprising workshops sharing different approaches on extending the use-time of clothing and textiles. Through a qualitative approach, the study aimed to explore if a one-off event can have an impact on the application of skills learnt and how social connectivity contributes to that aim. A secondary aim was to determine if there was a demand for future iterations of this kind of event, in or beyond the university setting. Through the diversity of workshops offered, the event aimed to open up what the parameters of repair, reuse and revival in the clothing and textile sector can be, drawing attention to various timely topics through discussion and practice. These included the preservation of repair skills, celebrating the aesthetics associated with repair and fostering more caring, longer-term relationships with the material world.The findings, gathered through participant observation, a survey and follow-up questionnaire with both participants and facilitators, indicated that for the most part, the event had a positive and lasting impact on attitudes and behaviours around skill-sharing as well as benefits on the social and emotional sides. The sense of opportunity, fulfilment and inspiration was felt from all involved, regardless of their role. Limitations came in the one-off nature of the event, the participant demographic largely having previous experience in clothing or textile repair and in the amount of participant responses only accounting of one third of the total.  
A Shared Vision: The importance of Knowledge Exchange through Co-design in Scaling Circular Strategies for Fashion Remanufacture : Case studies from global perspectives
Get PDFOverproduction in the fashion industry poses a significant challenge, leading to excessive resource use and rapidly growing textile waste before garments reach consumers. The Circular Economy (CE) is gaining recognition as a means to reduce resource consumption through various strategies integrated into product lifecycles. However, effectively scaling these strategies to achieve tangible impacts remains underdeveloped. This paper draws on research projects that collaborate with industry partners to incorporate remanufacturing into existing supply chains. It highlights the essential knowledge exchange required for implementing circular production methods, aiming to identify strategies necessary for scaling. The paper enhances understanding of how remanufacturing pre-consumer textiles can be integrated into large-scale fashion business settings. Through two practice-based research projects, one with a major fashion brand and the other with a large garment factory, the research investigates how co-designing pilot projects as a form of knowledge exchange can facilitate the scaling of circular strategies in fashion production. These projects are designed to build capacity, enabling the industry partner to develop systems that can expand the implementation of remanufacturing excess stock.
While extensive research exists on circular strategies, there is limited understanding of practical implementation and how collaborations between research and industry can foster a knowledge exchange that supports the transition to circularity. The implementation of remanufacturing, like other circular strategies, depends on adapting processes contextually with a clear understanding of the industry’s existing parameters and developing design responses that can effectively maintain value and recirculate garment stock.  
Somaesthetics and Dance: The Convergence of Bharatanatyam and Yoga in Kundalini Pattu
Get PDFThis paper performs a Somaesthetic evaluation of Kundalini Pattu: A Dance-Yoga, a dance performance portraying the spirit of Kundalini as creation of life and life forces after death. The discussion laid out in three sections uses Shusterman’s philosophy of Analytic, Pragmatic and Practical somaesthetics to evaluate the two performances of this choreography, one featuring Guru Reshmi Narayanan and the other her students. The study attempts to establish the disciplining of the soma as a necessary condition for the attainment of aesthetic perfection in Bharatanatyam, the South Indian classical dance tradition.
Keywords: Somaesthetics, Dance, Bharatanatyam, Yoga, Kundalin
Butterflies in the Flames: Romantic Ballet and the Spectacle of the Burning Ballerina
Get PDFSome of Romantic ballet’s best-remembered dancers are those who burned to death in horrific stage accidents. Emma Livry, the rising hope for the French ballet, was scorched during a rehearsal when her costume caught fire, lingering in a state of perpetual agony for eight months before dying of infection. In the United States, four sisters dancing together at Philadelphia’s Continental Theatre, as well as a number of other dancers, perished when their dressing room went up in flames.
The remarkable phenomenon of the burning ballerina spurred public outcry against unsafe conditions for dancers, and yet as a grisly form of visual spectacle, the image of the dancer-aflame both disturbed and excited those who watched and wrote of it. The English ballerina Clara Webster died during a performance of The Revolt of the Harem, inspiring author and influential early ballet critic Théophile Gautier to include a fictionalized version of her death in one of his novels. Using the histories of several nineteenth-century ballerinas who burned in stage accidents as its focal point, this article will examine how the figure of the burning ballerina is rendered—immortally—as a dual emblem of hyper-ability and disability, living virtuoso and dead angel of the dance. Onstage, her body, dancing on the brink of destruction, generates a powerful affective miasma that is perceptible to the spectator; on the page, she metamorphoses beneath the weight of the competing aesthetic configurations that ballet writers impose upon the narrative of her death, configurations of pious disembodiment and agonizing ‘hyper’-embodiment (in which the body is made to carry not only the weight of its own visceral matter, but also the weight of aesthetic figuration).
This article will discuss the frightening delights of looking at—and writing about—another body as it is on the cusp of decay, death, and dissolution, even at the height of its aesthetic perfection. All the while, this body possesses a powerful and moving affect of its own, never exhaustible, never fully recoverable, but always inviting us to look again
Categorising Remaking Methods for Fashion Practitioners
Get PDFWithin fashion and textiles, practices which transform existing textile waste materials are discussed using various terms, for example upcycling, remanufacturing, or redesign, however, this study will collectively refer to these as remaking practices. Through the examination of 38 cases of remake collaborations occurring within the Australian community between November 2019 to July 2023, this study explores how the fashion remake outcomes can be classified to more effectively support the development of different remaking practices. As a result, the paper proposes a remaking lexicon to encompass eight different methods which can be employed individually or in combination: over-dye, over-print, embellish, alter, splice, piece, patchwork and refabricate. This proposed categorisation draws parallels to traditional fashion production processes, yet also recognises that end-to-end production skills are not required for remaking, instead showcasing that the methods may use different skillsets. In identifying different types of skills, rather than different levels of skills, this paper highlights an opportunity for remaking practices to engage a wider range of actors and encourage a broader range of specialisations than has been previously suggested. The eight methods provide a clear categorisation to enable more critical comparison and evaluation of remaking practices, encouraging discussion into how the fashion industry might build a diverse ecosystem of remake practitioners
