Beyond Traceability
From knowing where something comes from to understanding what it belongs to Traceability has become one of the defining ambitions of contemporary fashion. We want to know where our clothes come from. Where the...
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Stories of territories, people and living knowledge.
Biodiversity Is A Design Question
What disappears from design when diversity disappears from the living world? We tend to think of biodiversity as an environmental question. Species loss.Habitat destruction.Soil degradation.Declining populations. Design seems to enter the conversation much later....
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The Limits of More
Can fashion regenerate while continuing to produce more? Regenerative design asks us to imagine systems that contribute to the conditions for life. Fashion is beginning to respond. Regenerative agriculture. Natural fibres. Traceable supply chains....
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Designing In Relationship
What changes when we stop designing objects and begin designing within systems? Design has traditionally taught us to focus on things. A garment.A chair.A building.A textile. We define a problem, imagine a solution and...
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Can Fashion Become Regenerative?
Beyond doing less harm For years, fashion has been learning how to reduce its impact. Use less water.Reduce emissions.Eliminate harmful chemicals.Choose better fibres.Recycle more.Produce less waste. These changes matter. But regeneration asks a more...
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The Return Of Ancestral Knowledge
What contemporary design is beginning to remember For much of modernity, progress was associated with separation. Knowledge became specialised. Production became industrialised. Materials became commodities. Making moved further away from the landscapes and communities...
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Designing With Life
What changes when design begins with a living system? For much of the last century, design has been understood as an act of creation. A designer imagines an object. Materials are selected. Resources are...
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Materials Are Not Resources
Rethinking our relationship with what we make from We speak about materials constantly. Natural materials.Raw materials.Preferred materials.Renewable materials. And, perhaps most revealingly, natural resources. The language seems neutral. But embedded within it is a...
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The Future Is Place-Based
Why regeneration cannot be designed from everywhere One of the promises of modern design was universality. The same products could be manufactured in different places, using standardised materials, standardised processes and increasingly standardised ideas...
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