FIRE.Digital: Digital Research Platform for Collaborative Fashion Innovation

FIRE.Digital：时尚协作创新数字研究平台

• 批准号: AH/N504312/1
• 负责人: Sandy Black
• 金额: $ 10.21万
• 依托单位: University of the Arts London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2015 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FN504312%2F1
• 关键词: FIRE.Digital; Digital; Research; Platform; Collaborative

Micro, small and medium designer fashion and textile businesses act as an engine for the wider UK fashion and textilesector, driving much of the creative conceptualization for the mass-market sector. However, lack of time and resources inthe resource- and time-poor fashion and textile sector has inhibited R&D culture in fashion SMEs, weakening the UKsector's ability to innovate and capitalize on invention, and retain competitive edge internationally. Increasing pressuressuch as natural resource depletion, escalating consumption and waste, competition from overseas, and financialfluctuations driven by the seasonal nature of designer fashion all strongly indicate that the current fashion business modelis unsustainable from both ecological and economic perspectives.Collaborative research and development between fashion designers and university researchers has great potential inaddressing these issues, however this space is currently in its infancy.Micro enterprises and SMEs have a poor understanding of university research, its potential benefits and available fundingopportunities. These businesses cannot allocate resource toward R&D beyond the inventive approaches applied butseldom capitalized upon in designer fashion. University researchers often work in isolation from the sector, use a differentlanguage and time frames that are not always compatible with industry needs and expectations.FIRE.Digital addresses these issues by developing the first digital platform for research-focused UK network of fashionSMEs and researchers. The key aim of the Platform is to galvanize collaborative research and innovation and providesustainable source of data on UK fashion SMEs and research network.Building on the existing London-focused FIREup digital prototype (www.fireup.org.uk), FIRE.Digital will develop into a highendonline tool for a UK-wide network of fashion industry and researchers to connect via user-friendly online network, aswell as access curated fashion and textile research content, including news and funding opportunities.FIRE.Digital will develop existing standard backend tools to create bespoke digital data collation and visualization tools andmethodologies, enabling capture of quantitative and qualitative data from the registered users. This data will providesignificant insights into the structure of fashion SMEs, positioning of fashion and textile researchers, UK Fashion networkformations, digital behavior in fashion SME's and researchers, barriers to collaborative research and open innovation in theUK fashion industry and lead towards establishing new research topics. These tools could potentially find application inwider creative industry research context.FIRE.Digital strategic and technical elements will be developed in collaboration with a Digital Agency. FIRE Focus Group,consisting of designer fashion and textile SMEs and researchers, will be utilized for analysis, development and testing ofthe platform.UAL researchers will focus on defining fashion ontology and typology, which will underpin the site functionalities, as well asact as a benchmark for classification of UK fashion and textile sector for digital purposes.A comprehensive database of UK fashion researchers and fashion/textile relevant higher education institutions will becollated in order to populate the platform and provide an accessible knowledge database of potential academic partners forcollaborative research.The collation and classification of potential sources of fashion research news and information will provide a basis for asustainable stream of fashion and textile research, and act as a reference resource for both fashion SMEs and researchersincluding development of new editorial content featuring groundbreaking people and research themes.

微型，小型和中型设计师时装和纺织品企业作为更广泛的英国时装和纺织品的引擎，推动了大众市场部门的创意概念化。然而，缺乏时间和资源的时装和纺织品部门的资源和时间匮乏，抑制了时装中小企业的研发文化，削弱了英国部门的创新和利用发明的能力，并保持国际竞争优势。自然资源枯竭、消费和浪费升级、来自海外的竞争以及设计师时装的季节性导致的金融波动等压力不断增加，这些都强烈表明，从生态和经济角度来看，目前的时装商业模式是不可持续的。时装设计师和大学研究人员之间的合作研究和开发在解决这些问题方面具有巨大的潜力，然而，这一领域目前还处于起步阶段。微型企业和中小企业对大学研究、其潜在利益和可用的资助机会了解甚少。这些企业不能将资源分配给研发，而只能应用创造性的方法，但很少以设计师的方式进行资本化。大学的研究人员经常与行业隔离，使用不同的语言和时间框架，并不总是与行业的需求和期望相一致。FIRE.Digital通过为以研究为重点的英国时尚中小企业和研究人员网络开发第一个数字平台来解决这些问题。该平台的主要目标是激发合作研究和创新，并提供有关英国时尚中小企业和研究网络的持续数据来源。基于现有的以伦敦为重点的FIREup数字原型（www.fireup.org.uk），FIRE.Digital将发展成为一个高端在线工具，用于英国范围内的时尚行业和研究人员网络，通过用户友好的在线网络连接，以及访问策划的时尚和纺织研究内容，包括新闻和融资机会。FIRE.Digital将开发现有的标准后端工具，以创建定制的数字数据整理和可视化工具和方法，从而能够从注册用户那里捕获定量和定性数据。这些数据将为时尚中小企业的结构、时尚和纺织研究人员的定位、英国时尚网络的形成、时尚中小企业和研究人员的数字行为、英国时尚行业合作研究和开放式创新的障碍提供重要见解，并有助于建立新的研究课题。这些工具有可能在更广泛的创意产业研究背景下得到应用。FIRE。将与数字机构合作开发数字战略和技术要素。FIRE焦点小组，由设计师时装和纺织中小企业和研究人员组成，将用于分析，开发和测试平台。UAL研究人员将专注于定义时尚本体和类型学，这将支撑网站功能，以及作为英国时装和纺织品行业数字化分类的基准。英国时装研究人员和时装/纺织相关的高等教育机构将被收集，以填充该平台，并提供一个可访问的知识数据库，潜在的学术合作伙伴进行合作研究。对时尚研究新闻和信息的潜在来源进行整理和分类，将为时尚和纺织研究的持续发展提供基础，并作为时尚中小企业和研究人员的参考资源，包括开发具有突破性人物和研究主题的新编辑内容。

项目成果

The End of Fashion: Clothing and Dress in the Age of Globalization

时尚的终结：全球化时代的服装和服饰

• 发表时间: 2018
• 作者: Black S

Design Research for Change

变革设计研究

• 发表时间: 2018
• 作者: Loudon G