Design for materials circularity in materials science
- Submitting institution
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Royal College of Art(The)
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- Ribul1
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- T - Other
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- Location
- Various, Internationally
- Brief description of type
- Multi-component output with contextual information
- Open access status
- Technical exception
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- Year
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This research focuses on the development of a materials practice between materials science and textile design for a circular economy undertaken with funding from the AHRC London Doctoral Design Centre, and published in a journal article and in conference proceedings. The material explored is regenerated cellulose obtained from post-consumer textiles in the context of interdisciplinary collaborations that introduce this material into established textile processes. The innovation addresses the methodological gap for design research based in the materials science laboratory in order to inform new textile processes that respond to the modified properties of recycled regenerated cellulose materials in a circular economy.
The research was conducted in collaboration with the materials scientist Dr Hanna de la Motte and was structured around two design-led research residencies in materials science laboratories at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden in Stockholm and Borås in 2016 and 2017 where waste cotton textiles are transformed into regenerated cellulose in a circular chemical recycling process. The residencies built the action research stages with a cooperative enquiry approach in participatory design research to create an equal design-science collaboration.
The insights are in the development of circular design techniques for prototyping with regenerated cellulose, which integrate the scientific method. The contribution of the methodological approach resulted in a transdisciplinary practice with regenerated cellulose in textile processes for mono-material colour, texture, print, and form. The methodological innovation enables a materials practice that begins at a raw state of regenerated cellulose in the materials science laboratory, before being introduced into established textile processes.
Industry and public dissemination includes: V&A ‘Fashioned from Nature’ symposium; ‘Future Matters’ symposium by Het Nieuwe Instituut and Design and Living Systems Lab; ‘Dynamic Duos’ European Horizon 2020 Trash2Cash workshop; ‘There and Back Again’ conference by the Centre for Circular Design; and citations in Earley (2018) and Collet (2018).
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- Non-English
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