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Other Fashion Systems
No full textThis is the first chapter in Part I – Framing and expanding fashion and sustainability.
Kate Fletcher was also co-editor for the Routledge Handbook of Sustainability and Fashion
The Handbook of Sustainability and Fashion
No full textThe clothing industry employs 25 million people globally contributing to many livelihoods and the prosperity of communities, to women’s independence, and the establishment of significant infrastructures in poorer countries. Yet the fashion industry is also a significant contributor to the degradation of natural systems, with the associated environmental footprint of clothing high in comparison with other products.
Routledge Handbook of Sustainability and Fashion recognizes the complexity of aligning fashion with sustainability. It explores fashion and sustainability at the levels of products, processes, and paradigms and takes a truly multi-disciplinary approach to critically question and suggest creative responses to issues of:
• Fashion in a post-growth society
• Fashion, diversity and equity
• Fashion, fluidity and balance across natural, social and economic systems
This handbook is a unique resource for a wide range of scholars and students in the social sciences, arts and humanities interested in sustainability and fashion
Design and Nature: A Partnership
No full textOrganised as a dialogue between nature and design, this book explores design ideas, opportunities, visions and practices through relating and uncovering experience of the natural world. Presented as an edited collection of 25 wide-ranging short chapters, the book explores the possibility of new relations between design and nature, beyond human mastery and understandings of nature as resource and by calling into question the longstanding role for design as agent of capitalism. The book puts forward ways in which design can form partnerships with living species and examines designers’ capacities for direct experience, awe, integrated relationships and new ways of knowing. Design and Nature: A Partnership is a rich resource for designers who wish to learn to engage with sustainability from the ground up.
• New design ethics of care
• Indigenous perspectives
• Prototyping with nature
• Methods for new design and nature relations
• A history of design and nature
• Animist beliefs
• De-centering human-centered design
• Understanding nature has power and agenc
Mapping, Counting, Loitering
No full textResearch method to map retail spaces and count shopping bags along a trasec
Folding in
Full text linkThis text explores design and nature, human centredness, the limits to human knowledge and nature’s own agency as the unfolding of an approach to design that is embedded in the world in which we live. It does this will reference to wildflowers, insects, hares and building a den. These things are explored as cues to start designing the fashion system in other ways, specifically those that foster mutualism and interdependence
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