E-pub

New Applications for Seagrass

Report

Ecological Opportunities and Challenges for Sustainable Bamboo Cultivation in the Netherlands

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.

Conference Paper

Going Eco Going Dutch

This article presents the results of the research project 'Going Eco, Going Dutch' (2015-2017), which investigated the production, design and branding of fashion textiles made from locally produced hemp fibres in the Netherlands.

Article

In textiles, sustainability is not an option, but a necessity!

Article available only in Dutch.

Report

Closing the Loop Design Guideline for Recycling

A pilot guide for fashion designers developed in the Closing the Loop project (ArtEZ/Saxion, 2015-2017) describing a set of design and production guidelines that contribute to closing the textile value chain and have a positive impact on consumers and the environment, with minimal environmental impact.

Report

Textile Recycling. An overview; a basis for a circular economy in the textile and clothing industry

Report on the negative environmental impact of textiles and how to reduce it, especially industrial and post-consumer textile recycling. Report available in Dutch only.