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Multi-Stakeholder Perspectives on Scaling up UK Fashion Upcycling Businesses
(Article)Fashion upcycling, the process of using waste clothing and textiles to create new products, is an alternative to business-as-usual practices which can effectively address concerns on excessive consumption of energy and ... -
Innovative Technologies for Sustainable Textile Coloration, Patterning, and Surface Effects
(Book chapter)The environmental impact of textile dyeing and finishing is of paramount concern in the textile industry. Enzyme and laser processing technologies present attractive alternatives to conventional textile coloration and ... -
Making Connections ‘Notions of Beauty’
(Other)Symposium and Exhibition funded by the New Dali Intangible Cultural Heritage Station in Lijiang, Yunnan, China. My research artefacts were part of this exhibition for the inaugural opening of the BR Gallery. In this ... -
Renewal Exhibition Artefacts
(Other)‘Redefining Luxury’ – Social and cultural innovation through Craft- re-generating the silversmithing industry. For centuries, people worldwide have satisfied themselves with the possession of beautiful things. Traditionally, ... -
Redefining Luxury Social and Cultural Innovation through Craft
(Conference)‘Redefining Luxury’ – Social and Cultural Innovation through Craft- re-generating the silversmithing industry. For centuries, people worldwide have satisfied themselves with the possession of beautiful things. Traditionally, ... -
THE ANDROID HEART
(Book)When technological development surpasses its original intention, making the original definition redundant, the need to adapt, or transcend, definition is an imperative. For example, “hologram” is defined in many dictionaries ... -
Embedding sustainability in design education: the case of design project on systemic changes for sustainable businesses based on upcycling
(Book chapter)Sustainable design education has become a prevalent practice in design education. Ramirez’s (2007) worldwide survey shows that the majority of the programmes have either compulsory or optional modules on sustainable design. ... -
Design Research for Change 2019
(Other)Contribution to publication and exhibition “Design Research for Change 2019” This was an AHRC funded project curated by Professor Paul A. Rodgers, Lancaster University. The contribution was a custom 3D printed ... -
Local or Global? Approaches for New Product Development in Low Income Countries
(Article)To increase opportunity and quality of life for people living in poverty, governments and non-government organizations (NGOs) sell products to low-income countries. These are typically products that can make fundamental ... -
Challenges and opportunities for scaling up upcycling businesses – The case of textile and wood upcycling businesses in the UK
(Article)Upcycling is a process in which used or waste products and materials are repaired, reused, repurposed, refurbished, upgraded and remanufactured in a creative way to add value to the compositional elements. It has been part ... -
Developing Interventions for Scaling Up UK Upcycling
(Article)Upcycling presents one of many opportunities for reducing consumption of materials and energy. Despite recent growth evidenced by increasing numbers of practitioners and businesses based on upcycling, it remains a niche ... -
Training the Child Consumer: Play, Toys, and Learning to Shop in Eighteenth-Century Britain
(Book chapter)As consumers-in-training, active engagement with financial and material tasks were key didactic tools for eighteenth-century children. The expanding and tempting world of goods, which rose to ever-increasing prominence in ... -
Fashioning Consumers: Ackermann’s Repository of Arts and the Cultivation of the Female Consumer
(Book chapter)Serena Dyer argues that the Anglo-German Rudolph Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics (1809–29) provides evidence of a decisive and conscious acknowledgement of the ...
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