SUSTAINABLE FASHION DESIGN – Innovative/smart illustrated patterns for the sustainable fashion sector
Area: Fashion/clothing/ kidswear
Administrators: Laetitia Barbu and Ruxandra Lupu
Advisor: Taylor Brydges. As part of her International Mobility Postdoc (Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), held at the Department of Human Geography at Stockholm University), Dr. Brydges is conducting a new research project examining sustainability and the circular economy in the Swedish fashion industry.
Objective: the aim is to re-think sustainability in fashion from the material to the conceptual and back: how can we give new values to clothing, how can people reconnect with their clothing and value them, new meaning to processes of repairing, re-using and aesthetics.
Activities: co-creative workshops engaging specialists in thinking together, producing and testing concrete solutions inspired by illustrations brought or created by the illustrators.
Ongoing projects:
DECO-ENCO (Decoding-ENCODING) with sustainable Local Norwegian wool
DECO-ENCO explores the nexus between traditional (Nordic-Scottish) knitting patterns and coding. Knitting and coding are very similar languages. Nowadays, exploring this fascinating relation is of high interest, in the context of ubiquitous digitalisation and empowering children through a better knowledge of computing systems/data. More…
STIMULI
STIMULI is an innovative pilot project aiming at helping/fostering the practice of soft body movements to release children’s body pain and stress/anxiety through the use of yoga and meditation. The use of illustrations printed on daytime care clothes and pyjamas for children but also an experimentation on work clothes for adult caregivers, helping to remember to practice relaxation moves at any time of the day or night, when the need arises. More...
BY ME – TELL ME
BY ME and TELL ME are two projects inviting children to express their relation with clothing and the way they represent it.
BY ME – This is a workshop conducted with several children, individually, in Finland, Norway and Sweden, where children are invited to dress Nordic animals on a dedicated coloring book. Children express their vision of their own environment and climate, according to the season and the type of Nordic animal dressed. More…
TELL ME – This is the first project with children, developed under the umbrella of D4CR Local Chapters (Designing For Children’s Rights) as part of the IN2FROCC programme. Based on the visual analysis of what children wear and how they define themselves in fashion, the “Amis-habits” of schools around the world share their daily interactions with clothing. The focus on children’s answers contribute to our understanding of children’s interactions with clothing. See more: https://acorso.org/en/childhood-and-clothing/project-tell-me/ Picture: Tell me/IN2FROCC
MEND IT! – Original designs to mend your clothes
MEND IT! Is a project involving three Nordic illustrators (Norway, Denmark and Sweden/UK). They have worked on the way illustration as fabric pattern inform more creative ways of repairing clothes through the stimulation of users’ new practices. More…
CIRKEL KIDS – Nordic design futures for children
Through the research works, networking activities and workshops we are conducting, we get the chance to discover numerous innovative, sustainable, fair creations, items and products made in or related to Nordic countries’ values and way of life. We have now decided to create a specific blog, called CIRKEL, to share them with parents and families! More… and See the blog here
Pecha Kucha/BioColour – ‘Children as future concious consumers – Re-connecting with natural dyes’
Our work with children and families is presented on the BioColour website in connection with the Biocolour -Exploring Sustainable Colour exhibition (in collaboration with the University of Lapland Faculty of Arts) at the Arktikum Science Centre and Museum in Rovaniemi, Finland from the 14.10-5.12.2021. The presentation can be viewed until the end of the project, 31st December 2025.
https://biocolour.fi/en/friends-of-biocolour/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjAVP40rk4M
“BioColour – Bio-based Dyes and Pigments for Colour Palette.Ecologically and ethically sound production of goods requires also sustainability from colourants and processes. BioColour project develops new methods for bio-based dye and pigment production and applications. Non-toxic and biodegradable colourants enable more sustainable solutions for textiles, coatings and packaging, which is a remarkable step towards bio and circular economy”. www.biocolour.fi
WEAR-ABOUTS – Augmented environments
Wear-Abouts explore how high quality garments, adjustable, can propose an additional content to the clothes through the fabric’s patterns, which can be updated regularly. More…
Digital Nordic Atelier – DNA
Digital platform promoting Nordic and Nordic related illustration and projects. More…
ILLUSTRIOUS LAB 