Planetary Design Circle – A Holistic and Strategic Design Tool
Authors: Hoske, Robin; Marwede, Max – Fraunhofer IZM The past months were a time that changed the way we work and collaborate together with our artists. With the Pandemic we were once more reminded that there is an urgent need for a change within the …
Wear It Live – Sustainability in Tech – The Future of Fashion, Textiles, and Electronics with Wearable Tech
What role can wearable and close-to-body technologies play in ensuring that the fashion, textiles, and electronics industries are sustainable? Sustainability is important to early adopters and trendsetters of new technologies: it is the basis of success and acceptance of up-and-coming products. But sustainability does not …
LEBIU Genuine Cork Skin – Final results
After almost 11 months of Research and Development in the co-creation program, I could develop a new set of Bio-based materials made out of Cork Stopper’s leftovers. The most difficult challenge was to pass from a home-made sample to a final prototype Industrially scalable and …
LEATHER FOR VEGETARIANS TURNS INTO LEBIU
7 months ago, when I began this adventure that is the Re-Fream project, I would never have thought that throughout the development of the project, I could discover many different fields of application and production techniques using cork particles. It seems yesterday when I saw …
Facing obstacles for a better fashion system
Checking the production chain, origin, and composition of the food basket is far more common now than years ago. End consumers are paying attention to their food, trying to minimize their impact on the climate crisis by making (more) responsible choices. But, what about what …
From conventional Denim to BIO-Denim
Today we use to buying products based on our own knowledge, generating in our mind an abstract idea regarding the process that has been used to achieve a particular effect or finish. But most of the time, according to what we heard, what people tell …
ARE WE HEADING THE AGRO-FASHION REVOLUTION?
“It is high time to move from basic to value-added products” Syed Kamrul Hassan – Managing Director at CLT Trim Textiles “Bio-based materials are opening an accelerated path thanks to social awareness of the final consumer, now much more sensitive to weather changes, animal abuse, …
