Reimagining the Design Process - Closing the Loop on the Fashion and Textiles Industry

该项目将支持我们刺激循环时装和纺织品行业增长的更大愿景。实现这一愿景的一个关键挑战是一个解决方案，该解决方案允许重复使用该行业制造过程中的废料。这一挑战是该项目的重点。我们希望运用我们的设计专业知识，结合埃克塞特大学的循环专业知识，探索可以为这一挑战提供解决方案的想法。研究表明，在制造过程中消耗的纺织品中，有15-25%被作为废物处理，这些边角料从未被使用过，这是一个巨大的资源效率问题，这笔资金将使我们的团队能够探索圆形设计如何为这一复杂的挑战提供创新的解决方案。目前的方法集中在切碎/重新粉碎成新的纺织品，而这种回收可能提供一个解决方案，适合行业的线性业务和设计模型，这个项目将使我们能够探索创新的解决方案，更可持续的，通过寻找减少废物和再利用的机会。确定这些解决方案是具有挑战性的，本项目的目的将是探索那里的解决方案是和，建立我们的理解的商业可行性的最有希望的想法。我们通过自己的运营以及与行业内其他企业的合作认识到这是一个挑战，我们的团队已经努力了一段时间，这个项目将使我们能够探索新的和早期的想法，为我们的挑战提供解决方案。这些想法是独特的，未经考验的，所以这笔资金将使我们能够开发和改进它们，同时为我们创造空间来探索这一设计挑战，产生其他潜在的想法。我们的设计团队，在我们的创新工作室工作，将能够开发模型，使这些想法可以进行测试和改进，以回应新的学习和来自利益相关者和客户的反馈。而我们的业务开发团队将能够支持设计团队制定下一步计划，将想法推向商业化。与埃克塞特大学合作，我们还将能够利用他们的专业知识来评估这些想法可能产生的环境和社会影响。

The project will support our bigger vision of stimulating the growth of the circular fashion and textiles industry. A key challenge in the way of achieving this vision is a solution that allows offcuts from the industry's manufacturing processes to be reused. This challenge is the key focus of this project. We want to apply our design expertise, coupled with the circular expertise of the University of Exeter to explore ideas that could provide solutions to this challenge.Research suggests that of textiles consumed in the manufacturing process 15-25% is disposed of as waste, with these offcuts never being used, this is a huge resource efficiency problem, and this funding will allow our team to explore how circular design could provide the innovative solutions to this complex challenge. Current approaches focus on shredding/respinning into a new textile, while this recycling may provide a solution that fits within the industry's linear business and design model, this project will allow us to explore innovative solutions that are more sustainable, by finding opportunities for waste reduction and reuse.Determining what these solutions will look like is challenging and the purpose of this project will be to explore what solutions there are and, to build our understanding of the commercial viability of the most hopeful ideas. As a challenge we have recognised through our own operations and our work with other businesses across the industry, this is something our team has been grappling with for a while, and this project will allow us to explore new and early-stage ideas that could provide solutions to our challenge.These ideas are unique and untested, so this funding will allow us to develop and improve them while creating space for us to explore this design challenge, generating other potential ideas. Our design team, working in our innovation studio will be able to develop mock-ups so these ideas can be tested and improved in response to new learning and feedback from stakeholders and customers. While our business development team will be able to support the design team in developing a plan of next steps that will develop the idea towards commercialisation. Working with the University of Exeter we will also be able to use their expertise to evaluate the likely environmental and social impact of the ideas.