Clara Mallart, graduate of the University Master's Degree in Research in Art and Design (MURAD) at Eina, attached to the Doctoral Programme in Philosophy at the UAB, publicly presents her thesis The Ecologies of Fashion. An investigation for the construction of pluriversal costume systems on Friday 8 November at 4pm at Eina Sentmenat.
This research, directed by Dr. Tania Costa and Dr. David Casacuberta, asks how we can create bioregional textile systems that make pluriversal costume systems emerge.
In response, the research first presents the relationship between fashion, design and sustainability and how these concepts have evolved throughout the Anthropocene. It then outlines the fashion ecologies that are currently working to subvert the environmental and social impacts of textile metabolism. The sustainable fashion movement is the umbrella that drives these ecologies; slow fashion, circular fashion and regenerative fashion.
From there, the question arises as to what really needs to be sustained and whether sustainability as a guiding concept still serves us for the eco-social transition we need. Various design-related transition discourses are presented, which are deploying new practices in the field of fashion. Based on the analysis of design through upcycling (design-thought-upcycling), a concrete research methodology has been created for a speculative exercise. It imagines what bioregional textile systems that think fashion from the commons could be like. Lifelong Fashion emerges as a proposal at a strategic, conceptual and methodological level. Finally, it reflects on and presents pluriversal fashion to overcome the Anthropocene and open up transitional paths towards the Ecocene.
The Ecologies of Fashion, Clara Mallart