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The S4Fashion project has officially kicked off. The project is co-funded by the COSME Programme of the European Union and is being led by the European Creative Hubs Network (ECHN) in partnership with Envolve Entrepreneurship Greece, DataScouts, Instituto Europeo di Design (IED) and ZIPHOUSE of the Technical University of Moldova.

S4Fashion is…Read More

Design Thinking: New Challenges for Designers, Managers and Organizations
International DMI Conference 14-15 April 2008, ESSEC Business School, France

Exploring UK Design Companies with Environmental Commitment

Raija Siikamäki Fiskars Iittala Group, P.O. Box 130, 00561 Helsinki, Finland
Nina Seppälä UCL University College London, Go…Read More

SUSTAINABILITY vs CIRCULARITY

Almost 35 years have passed since the first time that sustainable development was discussed, when in 1987 the World Commission on Environment and Development approved the preparation of the Report “Our Future in Common” led by Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, Prime Minister of Norway by then. In this report, what many…Read More

Functional fashion for wheelchair users: the social enterprise doing good business

When it comes to clothes, the options for people with disabilities can often be sparse.

Impractical, ill-fitting, styleless garb is frequently all that is available. Slovenian-Croatian startup UCQC is attempting to change that by creating functional, trendy…Read More

Digital printing: the green alternative for the textile industry

There’s no doubt that the textile industry is one of the most environmentally damaging industries. And textile printing is the reason why.

One of the biggest issues of traditional textile printing is the massive amount of water and energy it consumes.
For example, it takes a…Read More

In search of the agents responsible: circular fashion in the current market.
Words by David Alarcón

Assign blame is not the same as trying to find out who’s responsible for a certain phenomenon. Blaming someone carries a symbolic burden that, although it’s justified and unavoidable in some cases, contributes to generating an atmosphere of anim…Read More

https://www.architecturaldigest.in/story/sandeep-sangaru-wins-the-jsw-prize-for-contemporary-craftsmanship-2020/
“Traditionally, furniture was not used in the Kashmiri way of life. Over the years, the colonial furniture that was introduced by the British to the area lost its Kashmiri identity, which only reflected in the motifs carved by the l…Read More

“Traditionally, furniture was not used in the Kashmiri way of life. Over the years, the colonial furniture that was introduced by the British to the area lost its Kashmiri identity, which only reflected in the motifs carved by the local craftsmen. The winding research about the walnut wood furniture led Sandeep Sangaru to the rich histories of t…Read More

“The design exhibition focuses on Danish practitioners working at the frontier of new fabrication technologies, while carrying forward the materials and processes of traditional craft.
It aims to showcase the explorative and experimental design happening at the junction of art, craft, architecture and technology.”
https://mindcraftproject.com/

http://www.mobiliernational.culture.gouv.fr/fr/actualites/de-la-dentelle-de-latelier-du-puyenvelay-pour-sauver-le-corail
The plastic artist Jérémy Gobé has collaborated with the French national furniture manufacturers to produce biomimetic lace inspired by coral. The lace will be the basis of artistic and scientific projects in order to de…Read More

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-craft-art-market-force
« The dividing line between fine art and craft has been unraveling for decades. Once closely guarded by art historians, curators, and critics—who, as the scholar Terry Smith once put it, typically dismissed craft as “intimately associated with the hand, touch,” while associ…Read More

Theory into practice: young designers bet on circular fashion.
Words by David Alarcón
Is it a desire or an imperative need? Sometimes, when we talk about circular fashion, sustainability or production patterns that means the use of waste in the form of a second life or new garments with which to make the most of existing resources, I have the…Read More

On March 2020, the European Commission adopted the new Circular Economy Action Plan, one of the main blocks of the European Green Deal, Europe’s new agenda for sustainable growth.

The new Action Plan announces initiatives along the entire life cycle of products, targeting for example their design, promoting circular economy processes, f…Read More