The Functionality of Bio-Materials and How They Could Help to Solve the Growing Problem of Waste in the Design Industry.

这项研究将探索目前对生物材料设计的理解，并描述它们的物理和社会模拟。它的重点是挑战他们的寿命，用户问题，以及对生物材料作为实际材料的看法。这项研究将质疑工业生产合成材料的必要性，并将重点放在纺织和产品设计中对材料采取自给自足、尊重他人的方法的重要性，同时鼓励其他人这样做。合成废物的存在及其与消费、伦理、生态、以人为本的设计的关系，以及这如何影响我们与材料和自然世界的关系，将受到质疑。这个拟议的博士学位将以实践为导向(纺织和产品设计)，通过它将开发一系列生物材料原型。这项研究将测试如何延长生物材料的寿命，以与合成材料的功能质量竞争。考虑到当前公众对环境的讨论，以及纺织品和产品设计师如何在这场辩论中更加突出，这项研究是及时的。

This research will explore current understanding of bio-material design and describe their physical and sociallimitations. It focuses on challenging their life-span, user issues, and perceptions of bio-materials as practicalmaterials. The research will question the need for industrial production of synthetic materials and focus onthe importance of a self-sustaining, respectful approach to materials in textile and product design, whilstencouraging others to do so. The existence of synthetic waste and its relation to consumption, ethics,ecology, human-centred design and how this impacts on our relationship with materials and the 'naturalworld' will be questioned.This proposed PhD will be practice led (textile and product design), throughout which a range of bio-materialprototypes will be developed. The research will test how the lifespan of bio-materials can be prolonged inorder to compete with the functional qualities of synthetic materials. This research is timely given the currentpublic discussion regarding the environment and how textile and product designers should be moreprominent within this debate.