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Research

How can textiles be made more sustainable?

Members' research includes technological and creative experimentation, cultural research looking at Indigenous and traditional fibre traditions, and methods for reducing, processing and re-using textile waste.

 

Circular Textiles

How can artist-led research-creation methods develop technologies for effective de- and re-fabrication of textile waste?

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Sustainable Fibre

How can we work towards establishing integrated land systems that simultaneously address food, clothing and shelter?

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Slow Fashion

How can we inspire changes in clothing consumption and waste habits?

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First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that the UBC Vancouver campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam).

Slow Fashion: Circular Textiles, Sustainable Fibre Research Cluster

Vancouver, British Columbia Canada
E-mail slow.fashion@ubc.ca
Website slowfashion.ubc.ca

Research Excellence Clusters at UBC Vancouver is a joint initiative of the Provost and Vice-President, Academic, UBC Vancouver and the Vice-President, Research and Innovation. Funding support for the clusters is provided by Academic Excellence Funds – UBC Vancouver.

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