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Design Research, textile design, sustainability, circularity
In her dissertation, Françoise Adler investigates how design might be used to enable a more sustainable future within the textile value chain. It is estimated that today, over 80% of product-related environmental costs are determined in the design stages. To understand how textile sustainability works, the related contexts and their interplay must be taken into account from throughout a product’s life cycle. Textile and fashion designers often lack the relevant information to address the issue in practice. Understanding the textile value chain and associated extraction, production and manufacturing processes in all their complexity is a challenge that far exceeds the scope of the design discipline. In this dissertation, Françoise Adler investigates the role of design and the related new areas of knowledge by identifying gaps and developing solution approaches for designers.
Françoise Adler
Textile and product design
Univ. Prof. Dr. Christiane Luible, Kunstuniversität Linz
Prof. Dr. Andrea Weber-Hansen, Hochschule Luzern – Design Film Kunst
Kunstuniversität Linz
