Designing a Sensibility for Sustainable Clothing (S4S)

设计可持续服装的敏感性项目代表了一个重要的尝试，试图了解创造性活动如何塑造个人对与服装相关的可持续性的敏感性（即他们思考，想象和实践可持续性的方式）。我们的跨学科方法提供了一种新颖的方法，有望推动亲环境行为改变工作的边界。它也为可持续时尚的新兴领域做出了重大贡献，并研究了工艺过程，创意制作和材料影响之间的关系。该项目以“社会设计”和合作生产方法为基础，这意味着我们不仅对生产知识感兴趣，而且在生产知识的过程中与他人合作。这种方法很重要，因为时尚产业、文化和想象力是多方面的、复杂的问题，具有重要的个人（即情感）、社会和环境影响。我们认为，参与式艺术和工艺实践是产生可持续性敏感性的潜在重要工具，因此可以为行为改变的政策提供信息。因此，作为一种行为干预手段，艺术和手工艺需要一个严肃的试验台，尤其是因为政治科学家几十年来一直建议将多种知识结合起来解决政策问题。该项目由五个相互关联的工作链组成：工作链1。个别研究参与者和专家（包括我们当地社区纺织品/时尚合作伙伴以及国家和国际政策制定和塑造参与者）聚集在一起，讨论与服装相关的社会和环境问题，并通过揭露使时尚可持续发展的挑战和参与资产映射来应对这些挑战，为随后的研讨会提供信息和塑造。工作链2。通过一系列的工作坊（8个系列，5个半天的工作坊），6-10人一组的参与者以参与式的方式探索服装生命周期的不同元素。鼓励他们分享知识，进行反思和互动，将创造性产出（详情见“支持案例”）、手工制品和书面和自我评价的影片传递给该国不同地区的一群类似的同龄人。工作链3。通过调查、访谈和衣柜审计，在系列讲习班前后对服装做法进行评估，以确定服装敏感性和选择的任何变化。一小部分关键志愿者将在整个项目过程中记录购买衣服的情况，记录购买衣服的情况，并反思自己的感受、态度和行为的变化。他们将记录他们对参与物质过程在形成任何变化中的作用的看法。工作链我们采用了一种“情感政治”的方式，深入探索人们对服装的感受，以及在制作面料和服装的过程中所涉及的材料过程。我们通过归纳分析研讨会上的谈话、访谈、参与者的博客和反思电影来做到这一点。工作链在与我们广泛的项目合作伙伴、顾问和参与者网络联系后，我们的研究结果被仔细汇总成一份政策简报，这将有助于政策制定者努力促进有利于环境的行为改变。通过与我们的项目合作伙伴Fashion Revolution的联系，我们将安排与DEFRA和全党议会设计和创新小组的会议，在会议上我们将分享政策简报和项目的一些创造性成果（例如反思视频和人工制品）。来自每个地点的2-3名参与者，一些主要合作伙伴，调查人员和项目研究人员将参加。

The Designing a Sensibility for Sustainable Clothing project represents a significant attempt to seek to understand how creative activities might shape individuals' sensibility for sustainability (that is the way in which they think through, imagine and practice sustainability) in relation to clothing. Our interdisciplinary approach provides a novel methodology that promises to push forward the boundaries of work on pro-environmental behaviour change. It also makes a significant contribution to the emergent field of sustainable fashion and to research on the relationship between craft processes, creative making and material affect. The project is grounded in 'social design' and co-production methodologies, which means that we are not interested in just producing knowledge, but also in working with others in the process of generating knowledge. This approach is important because fashion industries, cultures and imaginaries are multi-faceted and complex issues with significant personal (i.e. emotional) social and environmental implications. We argue that participatory arts and craft practices are potentially an important tool for generating a sensibility of sustainability and therefore for informing policy on behaviour change. Arts and crafts therefore require a serious test bed as a behavioural intervention, not least because political scientists have, now for a number of decades, recommended that multiple knowledges be drawn together to solve policy problems.The project consists of five interrelated work strands:Work strand 1. Individual research participants and experts (including our local community textiles / fashion partners and national and international policy -making and -shaping actors) come together to discuss the social and environmental problems associated clothing, and to inform and shape the workshops that follow through exposing the challenges of making fashion sustainable and engaging in asset mapping to address these challenges.Work strand 2. Throughout a series of workshops (8 series of 5 half day workshop), groups of 6-10 participants explore different elements of the clothing life-cycle in a participatory manner. They are encouraged to share knowledge and be reflexive and interactive by passing creative outputs (see Case for Support for details of these) artefacts and written and self-evaluative films on to a group of similar peers in a different part of the country.Work strand 3. Clothing practices are assessed before and after the workshop series to identify any changes in clothing sensibilities and choices using a survey, interviews and a wardrobe audit. A smaller group of key volunteers will keep a reflective clothes-purchasing diary throughout the life of the project, recording clothing purchases as well as reflecting on any changes in their feelings, attitudes and behaviours. They will record their perceptions about the role of engagement with material processes in shaping any changes.Work strand 4. We adopt a 'politics of affect' by exploring in-depth the way people feel about clothing and the material processes involved in making fabric and clothes explored in the workshops. We do this through inductively analysing talk during the workshops, interviews and participants' blogs and the reflective films. Work strand 5. Our findings are assembled carefully after liaison with our extensive network of project partners, consultants and participants into a policy brief that will help policy-makers work towards promoting pro-environmental behaviour change. In liaison with our project partner Fashion Revolution, we will arrange meetings with DEFRA and the All Party Parliamentary Design and Innovation Group at which we will share the policy brief and some creative output from the project (e.g. reflective videos and artefacts). A small select group of 2-3 participants from each location, some key partners, the investigators and project researchers will attend.