Clothing and storytelling: Sustainable Transformations in Costume Design for scripted serial Television Productions

这项博士研究旨在通过研究一个特殊而关键的部分：服装设计来提高剧本连续剧制作的可持续性。我专注于电视制作，因为它们的运行时间很长(例如，《星际迷航：探索》系列已经在多伦多制作了五年)，这是对过程的有效控制和记录的赞颂。其目的是在一系列电视制作的深入案例研究的基础上，开发知识来支持服装设计的可持续过渡。我的假设是，通过服装网络跟踪服装的生命周期，将揭示在生态、社会和经济层面上朝着娱乐业可持续发展方向进行更全面变革的障碍和机会。其目的是评估和重新思考目前的服装生产模式，并与行业利益攸关方一起开发可持续转型为循环服装设计经济的整体模式。这项工作计划分三个步骤进行，概述如下。背景用英国戏剧倡议组织“绿皮书”的帕迪·狄龙的话说，“如果你不改变[一部作品及其网络的层级内]的关系，你就不会改变系统。如果你不改变系统，你就不会改变结果，我们也不会走向可持续发展”(狄龙在2021年Oistat的一次在线演示中)。

This Ph.D. research aims to improve sustainability for scripted serial TV production by investigatingone particular and vital part: costume design. I focus on TV productions because of their long run times(For example, the Star Trek: Discovery series has been in production for five years in Toronto), whichallows for efficient control and documentation of processes. The objective is to develop knowledge tosupport sustainable transitions in costume design based on an in-depth case study of a serial television production. My hypothesis is that following the life cycle of costumes through their networks willreveal barriers and opportunities for more holistic changes on the ecological, social and economiclevels towards sustainability in the entertainment industry. The aim is to evaluate and rethink currentproduction models and to develop, together with industry stakeholders, holistic models for sustainable transformation towards circular costume design economies. This work is planned in three steps,outlined below.BackgroundIn the words of Paddy Dillon from the UK theatre initiative 'The Green Book,' "If you don't change therelationships [within the hierarchy of a production and their networks] you don't change the system. Ifyou don't change the system, you don't change the outcome, and we're not moving towardssustainability" (Dillon in an online presentation at Oistat, 2021).