Textiles Circularity marks the end of the Textiles Circularity Centre, documenting the research conducted by the three strands, the design of the Regenerative Fashion Hub and our vision for a future circular fashion system. It ends with our Design Manifesto for a Circular Economy Culture.
The Textiles Circularity Centre’s research has revealed that, in order for people to adopt sustainability practices, the means to enact them must be embedded into our culture. Our research has therefore focused on designing these means for people, be they consumers, businesses, NGOS, local governments, to practice circular economy in place-based settings, such as on the high street.
Our aim was to demonstrate a transformation pathway to establish a culture of circular economy for the UK apparel-textiles industry by adding environmental, economic, social, and technical value to biowaste as it flows from recycling of waste, production of textiles, to consumption and reuse of apparel.
Our approach was vision-directed, design-led, and highly interdisciplinary. We employed visioning to reframe fashion-apparel from the current global linear system of production and fast consumption, to a culture centred on care, prolonged use, community wellbeing and locality.
Textiles Circularity: Establishing a culture of circular economy in society brings together the results of four years of that research.
