Re-shaping the fashion system
3 talks on sustainable fashion
- PART 1: Prof. Dilys Williams
- PART 2: Prof. Mathilda Tham
- PART 3: Dr. Francesco Mazzarrella
Talks for the International Metadesign Congress in Brazil.
- PART 1: Prof. John Wood argues that design as we know it needs a re-fit
- PART 2: He offers a very brief overview of our previous work on metadesign
- PART 3: He asks whether this approach could be used to reshape the fashion system
Previous metadesign research
Our research team at Goldsmiths University of London received its first significant EPSRC/AHRC research funding in 2005. The title of this project was An Open Source Design Cluster that uses Synergy Tools to Guide the Effective Development of a 'Meta-Design' Methodology. In effect we asked ourselves whether design as we know it could deliver synergies rather than products and services. Our work led to publications including our most recent (edited) book Metadesigning Designing in the Anthropocene (Wood, 2022). We began by acknowledging the failure of design (i.e. profession / discipline) to shape the world in ways that ensure our long-term survival. As this implies, metadesign will need heuristics that reconcile both bottom-up and top-down tactics. These will need to include novel transdisciplinary, political and comprehensive processes of co-creativity that blur the lines between designers and users of design.