Publications

Book

Practising Solidarity | Critical Fashion and Agency that Matters

Practising Solidarity explores how to make and wear clothes in a solidarity-based way.

E-pub

Bamboo Europe

Guide

The Dutch circulair textile industry

This guide provides an overview of 115 Dutch textile organisations across the entire value chain and gives insight into the Netherlands’ circular textile ecosystem, with inspiring projects and collaborations. As a result, it provides a blueprint for future circular collaborations, both nationally and internationally.

E-pub

New Applications for Seagrass

Final report of the Smart Solutions Project: New uses for seagrass.

Report

Ecological Opportunities and Challenges for Sustainable Bamboo Cultivation in the Netherlands

Article

KEEPING IT LOCAL: 3D-knitted fisherman’s jumpers for contemporary communities

Article on the project Keeping it Local, published in Jaarboek Kostuum 2023, a publication of the Dutch Costume Society.

Book

Exploring seagrass for sustainable design

Article

Clothes moths, solution to textile waste problem?

Article based on NWO/SIA Germ project ‘Natural Clearing Agents: using moths in a circular textile value chain’ (Oct 2021-Oct 2022). Article available only in Dutch.

Report

Seagrass: Possible career or washed up?

E-pub

Going Circular, going Cellulose

Report

Circular Intimacies

This report, based on the research in ‘Going Eco Going Cellulose’ (Saxion/ArtEZ 2017-2019) describes a design-driven, multi-stakeholder and interdisciplinary design approach and forms of co-creation, and offers insights into (newly developed) circular design principles.

Report

Recommendations for a Circular Design Practice

This is a further development of ‘Closing the Loop Design Guideline for Recycling’, based on the research ‘Going Circular Going Cellulose’ (Saxion/ArtEZ, 2018-2020). This guideline provides practical tools for fashion and textile designers to achieve circular designs.