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Circular Textiles

Understanding textiles as circular versus linear consumption and waste streams allows the Cluster to explore creative production and technologies using biodegradable, recyclable or recuperated materials or textile waste. Can artist-led research-creation methods develop technologies for effective de- and re-fabrication of textile waste? In thinking with Gilbertson’s 2024 research, how can those production technologies be scaled up from the artisanal scale to produce positive environmental impacts, beginning regionally?

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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