Studentships

Research Title: Energy-harvesting & Self-Actuated Textiles in the Design of Domestic Spaces

Aurélie Mossé is currently undertaking a PhD in Tectonic Textiles, research supported by The Centre for IT and Architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, Copenhagen, in collaboration with the Textile Futures Research Group, Central Saint Martins, College of Art and Design, London.

Research Title: Considerate Clothing

This PhD research aims to re-think traditional fashion design methods by seeking opportunities for designer/consumer collaboration.

Research Title: Transformable Knitted Textiles

Jane Scott is a PhD (part time) research student at Central St Martins School of Art and Design. She is a textile designer focusing on the design and development of transformable knitted textiles for architecture and spatial interventions.

Research Studentships are A Master of Philosophy (MPhil) or Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) achieved through individual subject specialist research over a period of normally three years full-time. Part-time research degrees are also available.

http://textilefuturesphd.blogspot.com/
A collaborative platform initiated by Phd students linked to the Textiles Futures Research Group, University of the Arts, London, to engage a dialogue about practice-based research for textiles and new technology.

Caterina Radvan is a knitwear designer, PhD (part-time) research student and Senior Lecturer at London College of Fashion.

Kate Goldsworthy is a textile designer and researcher, working in the area of new finishing technologies, materials R & D and design for recycling. Her passion lies with tools for sustainability in the textile world, particularly the recycling and reuse of polyesters.

Research Title: Social Textile Design for Sustainable Fashion

What are the social needs that a textile/fashion practice/designer could meet/solve?

How can a textile designer encourage new ideas of individual and social well-being, or ‘nudge' people to change unsustainable behaviours?

This research project will explore the role of textile/fashion designers as ‘social innovators' and how design can catalyse new sustainable behaviours, new enterprise models and new ideas of well-being.

Research Title: Unpicked: Historical Refashioning Skills as a Foundation for Sustainable Clothing Design

Owing to the shifting value of clothing both economically and culturally, the majority of the surviving garments have been altered or repaired. By conducting an object-based analysis of historical clothing circa 1750 - 2000, which has been refashioned, restyled or even created from previous garments, I am exploring how this analysis could form a foundation for designing contemporary sustainable clothing.

Research  Title: In Conversation: Collaborative Textile Craft Practice

How does the blurring of boundaries between art, craft and design impact on domestic traditional craft makers?
How are ingenuity, authority and identity articulated in traditional crafts?
What are the possibilities of collaborative practice within domestic crafts, principally in terms of decision-making, motivation, output and context?
How will autonomous craft practices such as knitting and crochet affect collaborative output differently to those that are more discernibly communal such as patchwork?