digital craft: a hybrid design practice for sustainability
TRANSCRIPT
Digital Craft: a hybrid design practice for sustainability
Clara Vuletich, Textiles Environment Design (TED)Chelsea College of Art & Design, London
12th October 2010University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
Presentation
•Intro to TED & our design strategies
•The rise of Craft
•New technologies
•Hybrid design practice
Workshop
•Quilting & Patchwork
•Emotionally Durable Design
•Group discussion of personal items
•Individual making using templates
Digital Craft
The Textile Environment Design (TED) research group includes designers, teachers and researchers, connecting curriculum developments, live projects and research opportunities.
Digital Craft: TED
Digital Craft: TED
Top 100 slow fashion projectBecky Earley
Digital Craft: Lifecycle Thinking
Diagrams: Kate Goldsworthy, 2009
Lifecycle thinking recycling upcycling sustainable consumption
End of life fair trade ethical production fast fashion
Organic cotton low toxicity consumer use durability
Low launder waste multi-functional local/global
Long life/short life systems thinking service design
Biomimicry eco labelling wellbeing social activism
Digital Craft: Complexity!
• Minimise waste
• Reduce chemical impacts
• Reduce energy and water use----------------------------------------------------
• Consider ethical and fairtrade production----------------------------------------------------
• Replace the need to consume
• Dematerialise and develop systems/services
• Design activism
Digital Craft: TED’s Design Strategies
Mate
rials
and p
roce
sses
Soci
o/c
ult
ura
l asp
ect
s
• Minimise waste
• Reduce chemical impacts
• Reduce energy and water use----------------------------------------------------
• Consider ethical and fairtrade production----------------------------------------------------
• Replace the need to consume
• Dematerialise and develop systems/services
• Design activism
Digital Craft: TED’s Design Strategies
Mate
rials
and p
roce
sses
Soci
o/c
ult
ura
l asp
ect
s
Digital Craft: Socio/cultural context
Super NaturalStudio Toogood, London Design Festival 2010
Digital Craft: Socio/cultural context
"We can no longer import our lives in the form of food, fuel and fundamentalism. Life is home-grown and always has been. So is culture. And so, too, are the solutions to global problems". Paul Hawken, 2008
The New Rurbanites (The Future Laboratory) Slow Fashion Community
Slow Design Conviviality Culture Glocalisation Multi-local
Connoisseurship Quality Locally sourced
Humane Intimate Small but Connected Hyper-local
Digital Craft: Socio/cultural context
Art for a Changing WorldMuseum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Digital Craft: Socio/cultural context
Transition Towns Brixton, Londonwww.transitiontownbrixton.org
Kieren Jones,RCA Fraduate 2010http://hotelrca.com
Digital Craft: Socio/cultural context
“The new local is ‘multi-local’….small but connected” (Ezio Manzini)
Multi-local
Multi = connected, networked, transferable
Local = human scale, less carbon impacts
Digital Craft
Digital = networked, cleaner (less water/chemicals), efficient (print on demand),
Craft = handmade, quality, unique, local materials, long-life
