Enhancing emotional durability through color changing material traces in jacquard woven fabrics

The textile and fashion industry, with its complex supply chain from fiber production to retail, employs harmful chemicals, posing risks to the environment and workers. Fast fashion has intensified clothing production, leading to extensive textile waste. Consequently, it has fostered a more ephemeral and less emotionally durable connection with...

Viaduct 53

Viaduct 53 is a club that combines unique experiences and business accommodations for its local and international members and guests. <br/>Nightlife always played an economic and cultural factor in both regional and social growth. From Speakeasies to the iconic Studio 54 and the contemporary night scene, peculiar places have served as unique...

Try It Out: Research Center

Fashion is technological, since the first clothing worn by early humans, the garments have been developed radically to become efficient and comfortable (quick dry, highly warm, extremely light) to match weatherability.<br/>Up until the last decade, fiber technology and materials science was limited to specialists. Since then, textile and...

Hair Bank: Fashion House

A bank with the hair collecting system to deal with hair waste, cooperating with local hair salons and barbershops and bi-products to fill up the hair cycle from maintenance consumption to post-consumer offer.

Ready to Rent

Ready to Rent envisions a fashion rental hub that provides the rental, delivery, and maintenance of a wide range of clothing options. It supports a model of usership in fashion consumption by offering clothing as a service rather than a purchasable product.<br/><br/>The fully automated processing facilities handle used garments used garments for...

Make Scents: The laboratory and botanical greenhouse produces and preserves the essence of Linden tree

Make Scents considers the impact of changing climate conditions on resource extraction by establishing an in-house laboratory that specializes in producing fragrances specific to a region. This contribution captures Berlin’s landscape transitory due to critical climate change. As of 2040 the Linden tree—a significant<br/>longstanding tree with...

Crafting Heritage

Crafting Heritage is a made-to-order textile workshop dedicated to the perpetuation of Provence’s ancestral know-how on the textile block printing technique used for Provencal or indienne prints. <br/>Located in the former industrial and artisanal district of Les Crottes, the workshop recovers and adapts seven warehouses by rethinking the...

Fashion House: Shelf Life

Shelf Life proposes a reimagined landfill in the M4H district, an emerging fashion district near Marconiplein, Rotterdam, as a final place of production for all garments at the end of their life. In 2040, The fashion industry shifted from a linear economy to a circular economy, maximizing value through reuse and recycling. However, even with...

Retro-Prospective

Retro-prospective is an archive of historical costumes in Marseille, which serves as a threshold between the past and the future. It preserves the originals in an optimal state of conservation by the tailored norms in order to create new intellectual works for the future to continue the local fashion culture.<br/>Within the Red Thread, the...

Yours, Forever: The fur farm is reimagined as an inland island with a closed-loop ecosystem for a dignified extraction of the long-lasting, biodegradable fur

This contribution—the design of a fur farm sited in Berlin’s southwestern rural landscape—reimagines a fur farm that alters the notion of fur farming to restore the unrivaled luxury, warmth and longevity of fur as a responsible product in the fashion industry. The captive industrial farming and preventative culling of minks following the COVID...

Fashion House: The Unmentionables

This contribution is part of Fashion House, a collective project on the spatial implications of a decentralized and more tightly regulated fashion industry across Europe that reimagines the function and design for a fashion house.<br/>The Unmentionables envisions a new clinic that substitutes surgical procedures with non-permanent and risk-free...

Equity Road

Equity Road is a foundation in Valencia that provides professional opportunities to vulnerable local groups such as immigrants and the unemployed. The preference for regional resources, such as wool, within the Red Thread, creates social sustainability by training people as manufacturing experts of fashion goods and therefore ensuring a circular...

The Non-Fungible Cult

The Non-Fungible Cult is an exclusive data center designed for luxury fashion NFTs. It is located on a fortified island and serves as a secure space for digital fashion assets. Fashion brands use the data center as a space of mediation between virtual and physical realities, granting selected NFT holders access as a part of their loyalty plan....

Sustainable opportunities in the Fashion industry: Easing the transition to a slower, user-inclusive production model for Maium

The fashion industry is one of the most polluting and wasteful industries in the world. This is strictly related to the linearity of its production model, which puts profit and product generation before environmental and social sustainability. Very often this leads to overproduction and huge amounts of waste created. Specifically, the fashion...

Towards a sustainable supply chain: A collaboration strategy to improve production processes and decrease environmental impact in a fashion supply chain

Sustainable production and consumption are becoming increasingly important to both consumers and businesses. Sustainability is defined as development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. A distinction is made between social, environmental and financial sustainability,...

Refashioning Communication

This project was commissioned by Labl Fashion Group B.V. (Labl), a company which focuses on helping small fashion brands gain access to a social and sustainable supply chain, by connecting these brands to their (future) private factory in Kenya. During the first pilots Labl performed with other fashion suppliers in Kenya, the company stumbled...

Heritage based adaptive reuse of hotel Swarha: a sustainable alternative for shopping in the city center of Bandung

The main objective of this master's thesis is to revitalize a district in Bandung by means of the adaptive reuse of shared heritage and passive climate systems. Furthermore, the ambition is to empower the local culture of fashion craftsmanship and create a sustainable alternative for shopping in the city centre of Bandung. Designing both a...