Future Fashion Factory - Digitally Enabled Design & Manufacture of Designer Products for Circular Economies

时装设计行业为英国经济贡献了280亿英镑或500亿英镑（包括间接贡献），其不断增长的近90万劳动力使其成为英国最大的创意产业之一。这是一项行业主导的挑战，设计师将与供应链制造商和其他技术专家合作，在高价值奢侈品纺织品和时尚领域引领高度创造性的应用、共同开发和实施新的纺织和工业数字技术（IDTs）的过程。研发集群将带来令人兴奋的新创意创新机会、新产品、更短的产品开发和设计交货期、更低的成本，并大幅提高全球产业竞争力和生产力。研究重点是开发新的创意设计流程、产品、服务和商业模式，与两个关键主题相关：数字化连接和可持续的流程。数字通信与数据分析。这两个主题的研发也将用于创建新的时装设计学位和工业学徒计划，以解决行业中拥有艺术，设计，科学和技术能力的独特组合的多学科steam设计师的技能差距。

The fashion design industry contributes £28bn or £50bn including indirect contributions, to the UK economy with a growing workforce of nearly 900,000 making it one of the largest creative industries in the country.This is an industry-led challenge in which designers will lead a highly creative process of applying, co-developing and implementing new textile and industrial digital technologies (IDTs) in collaboration with supply chain manufacturers and other technology experts, in the high value luxury textile and fashion sector. The R&D cluster will deliver exciting new creative innovation opportunities, new products, shorter product development and design lead times, reduced costs, and substantially increase global industrial competitiveness and productivity.The research focuses on developing new creative design processes, products, service and business models, linked to two key themes: 1. Digitally Connected and Sustainable Processes. 2. Digital Communication and Data Analytics.The R&D in both themes will also feed in to the creation of new fashion design degree and industrial apprenticeship programmes to address a skills gap in the industry for multidisciplinary STEAM-based designers, that possess a unique combination of art, design, science and technology competencies.