Search for dissertations about: "Fashion and Textiles"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 82 swedish dissertations containing the words Fashion and Textiles.
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1. Body and design : Alternative ontologies in body based design processes
Abstract : The human body is a central aspect in design and is considered to be a fundamental starting point in body-based design processes. During the design process, both the existential and functional aspects of the body are explored in relation to the different activities that need to be considered with regard to the design of clothing, dress, and its association with objects in the world. READ MORE
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2. WomenWeave Daily : "Artisan Fashion" as "Slow and Sustainable Fashion"
Abstract : As awareness has grown of the detrimental, often lethal, aspects of fashion production and use, so too has a global movement to diminish its environmental harms and mediate its social exploitation. In all types of commercial, academic, and popular discourse about fashion, words such as eco-friendly, green, ethical, fair, and slow -- the last being a catch-all term for all things “not fast fashion”-- are ubiquitous. READ MORE
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3. Local Fashionalities : Växbo Lin and WomenWeave
Abstract : Global Fashion, via the logic of high-speed, large-scale industrial production and anachronistic high-volume consumption habits, causes significant social and environmental damage. Local Fashion is understood as part of the Slow Fashion movement that aims to change the functions of fashion so that they support or lead the quest to flourish within known human and planetary boundaries. READ MORE
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4. Mass customised fashion : development and testing of a responsive supply chain for mass customised fashion garments
Abstract : The background to this thesis is the dynamics and institutions of the fashion world. They have developed out of reasons of convenience and on the whole they work, but there are possibilities of improvement. Time from style and colour-direction to market is up to 18 months, from design to market 12 months and from forecast to market six months. READ MORE
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5. On the elements of E-textiles : Fabrication and characterisation of textile routing and electrodes
Abstract : “Smart textile” as a notion was demarcated approximately 25 years ago, leading to an enthusiastic hype around the research. Both academic efforts and members of the maker community developed prototypes and artistic creations that incorporated smart features into textiles. READ MORE