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Twigger Holroyd, A 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3403-3516,
2019.
Designing fashion fictions: speculative scenarios for sustainable fashion worlds.
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The Design After: Cumulus Conference proceedings, Bogota 2019.
Bogota: Universidad de los Andes, pp. 341-351.
ISBN 9789587749120
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Abstract
The globalised fashion and textile industry is deeply implicated in the devastation of Earth’s life-supporting systems. Industry-led sustainability initiatives have been incremental and inadequate; fundamental change is required to develop an approach to fashion that works within the means of the planet. Potential for transformation is limited by a collective inability to contemplate alternatives to the status quo. A newly established research project, Fashion Fictions, responds to this challenge. It will imagine, prototype and analyse enticing alternative fashion worlds through a playful and collaborative design process in order to research people’s attitudes to the future.
A literature review demonstrates that this project is a work of design fiction: an emerging field which takes design from its commercial
context to explore political, social and cultural issues via speculative ‘what-if’ scenarios. Yet much design fiction divides the ‘expert’ designer from a passive, voiceless audience. The related fields of interventional anthropology and experiential futures offer critical and methodological guidance for a much more participatory approach, in which designer and participants become co-researchers, learning together about visions of the future. Drawing on these influences, a three-stage process for the research is outlined.
A reflective analysis offers an insider view of the first stages of the design fiction project. It discusses the complexities of developing a detailed design brief, which involves the construction of parallel presents, rather than future scenarios; specifies three key parameters that shape the fictions being devised (possible; sustainable and satisfying; based on diverse economies); and identifies various potential sources of inspiration.
| Item Type: | Chapter in book |
|---|---|
| Description: | Proceedings of The Design After: Cumulus Conference, Bogota, Columbia, 30 October - 1 November 2019. |
| Creators: | Twigger Holroyd, A. |
| Publisher: | Universidad de los Andes |
| Place of Publication: | Bogota |
| Date: | 2019 |
| ISBN: | 9789587749120 |
| Identifiers: | Number Type 1259531 Other |
| Divisions: | Schools > School of Art and Design |
| Record created by: | Linda Sullivan |
| Date Added: | 19 Dec 2019 10:39 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Dec 2019 10:39 |
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| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/38888 |
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