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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 ... -
Masculinities, Wallpaper, and Crafting Domestic Space within the University, 1795-1914
(Article)During routine renovations, a ‘wallpaper sandwich’ - made up of twelve preserved layers of wallpaper - was removed from the wall of a student dorm room at Peterhouse College, Cambridge. Carefully separated and conserved, ... -
Barbara Johnson's Album: Material Literacy and Consumer Practice, 1746‐1823
(Article)This article examines Barbara Johnson's Album, a prolific record of the dress consumption of a vicar's daughter. The album contains over a hundred samples of dress fabrics acquired by Johnson between the ages of eight and ... -
Shopping and the Senses: Retail, Browsing and Consumption in Eighteenth-Century England
(Article)Interest in the senses has blossomed over the last decade, leading to numerous explorations of touch, smell, sound, taste and sight throughout history. Increasingly, historians are considering how this sensory methodology ... -
Upcycling for teaching and learning in higher education: Literature review
(Book chapter)Upcycling is creation or modification of any product from used materials, components and products which is of equal or higher quality or value than the compositional elements. Upcycling, in principle, increases material ... -
Dimensional change of wool fabrics in the process of a tumble-drying cycle
(Article)Currently domestic tumble dryers are popularly used for drying garments; however, excessive drying and the inappropriate way of tumble agitation could waste energy and cause damage to or the dimensional change of garments. ... -
Factors Influencing Upcycling for UK Makers
(Article)Changing consumer behaviour can reduce environmental impacts. Upcycling is one of the understudied yet promising, environmentally sustainable behaviours that has the potential to contribute to the reduction of waste and ... -
Scaling up British fashion upcycling businesses: Multi-stakeholder perspectives
(Conference)Purpose: 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 ... -
Enzyme Catalysed Coloration and Surface Patterning
(Article)COLORATION IS AN important process in textile finishing, which is commonly used to enhance the appearance and attractiveness of a cloth. Conventional textile coloration methods and techniques employed to create surface ... -
Laser Shibori: A Digital Moulding Technique Supporting Circular Textile Design in Three Dimensions
(Article)This paper considers the potential for digital laser technology to facilitate sustainable innovation in the field of textile design and manufacture, enabling transition towards a circular economy. Using recent design ... -
Selective enzymatic modification of wool/polyester blended fabrics for surface patterning
(Article)An enzyme-based process was investigated to achieve surface patterning of fabrics as an alternative to conventional chemical processes. In the current study, the enzyme protease was employed to selectively modify a ... -
A Gift for Eleonora
(Other)Output Type: Design and Performance Installation in UNESCO World Heritage Sites (2015, 2016); Book/Catalogue; Website performed at Bath Literature Festival, 2016. -
The Future of Heuristic Fossils
(Conference)The authors propose that while many fields of design are involved in reflexive interactions with design research tools, others are strongly heuristic in both their application of historic knowledge bases and in the ways ... -
Apothecary’s Cabinet II
(Other)Exhibited University of Derby Nature Connections Festival September 2015; Student Wellbeing Centre University of Derby January – April 2016; Derby Hospital Residency April 2016 – January 2019 -
Emmanuel Cooper Retrospective
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Design Craft- Material Value and Perception- Silver in a Functional Context
(Other)Meetings at the Edge ‘Nexus’: a connection or a series of connections linking two or more things This exhibition looks at some of the ways in which 21st -century artists and makers are changing preconceptions about ... -
One Wedding, Two Cultures, Four Outfits: The Phenomenological Exploration of Fashion and Textiles
(Article)Textiles can evoke an emotional response that is induced by the smell, texture, memory, and embodied experiences that are released through wearing, touching, and talking about textiles. The textile artifact is our most ...
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