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case study 5

studEnt: EMIly sKInnEr

“Smart Textiles: An Innovative Future for
Sustainable Design

The aim of this thesis was to give an in-depth insight
into the recent innovation of smart textiles, questioning
their uses and the present sustainable textile market to
discover what purpose smart textiles could serve in the
future of sustainable design. Both discussions of technology
and ecology are extremely prevalent in today’s society,
shaping numerous facets of our daily lives, from our
cultural experiences to the way in which we communicate
with one another. Therefore, in my opinion it appeared a
natural course of evolution for these ideas, technology and
sustainability to combine and pave the way for the future
of design, with the aim of creating new and functional
design which addresses our needs as well as our desires”.
(Emily Skinner, 2008)

sElEctEd KEy tExts and othEr rEsEarch

Braddock Clarke, S. E. and O’Mahoney, M. (2005) Techno
Textiles 2: Revolutionary fabrics for fashion and design,
London: Thames and Hudson

Braungart, M. and McDonough W. (2002) Cradle to Cradle:
Remaking the way we make things, New York: North
Point Press

Featherstone, M. (1991) Consumer Culture and
Postmodernism, London: Sage Publications Ltd

Lee, S. (2005) Fashioning the Future: Tomorrow’s wardrobe,
London: Thames and Hudson

Papanek, V. (1984) Design for the Real World: Human
ecology and social change (2nd Edition), London: Thames and
Hudson

Papanek, V. (1995) The Green Imperative: Ecology and ethics
in design and architecture, London: Thames and Hudson

artIclEs

Baurley, S. (2005) The Emotional Wardrobe [Internet]

London: Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design.

Available at: http://www.design21.dundee.ac.uk/PDF/

emotional%20wardrobe.pdf

Berzowska, J. (2005) ‘Electronic Textiles: Wearable

computers, reactive fashion and soft computation’ in Textile:

The journal of cloth and culture, Vol. 3 (1) pp. 58-75

Küchler, S. (2003) ‘Rethinking Textile: The advent of the

‘smart’ fiber surface’ in Textile: The journal of cloth and

culture, Vol.1 (3) pp. 262-272

Lee, M. (2007) The Ecologist at Estethica, Ethical Fashion

Special: Sacking the sackcloth image, [pamphlet] London:

Tyler Moorhead

prIMary rEsEarch - IntErVIEws/dEBatE chaIrEd

Interview carried out with designer Elena Corchero, debate

initiated and chaired by Emily Skinner with MA Textile

Futures students (at Central St. Martin’s College of Art and

Design), interviewed authors such as Suzanne Lee.

pEdagogy and InstItutIonal approachEs