Social sustainability approaches in electronic textiles crafts communities
Greinke, Berit and Sametinger, Florian and Baker, Camille and Bryan-Kinns, Nick and Hernandez, Lucie and Ranaivoson, Heritiana (2019) Social sustainability approaches in electronic textiles crafts communities. In: PLATE - product lifetimes and the environment: proceedings. Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin, Berlin, pp. 301-307. ISBN 9783798331259
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This paper reports on results from the project WEAR (Wearable technologists Engage with Artists for Responsible innovation), which between 2017-2018 has facilitated sustainable innovation processes in the field of smart textiles and wearable technology. 46 design-technology interdisciplinary projects and start-ups throughout Europe were selected through two Open Calls, and funded to develop creative solutions for a broad range of sustainability challenges within the relevant industries. This paper outlines collaboration between two WEAR teams (KOBA, Touch Craft) as makers and facilitators and their audiences through crafts and practical making of electronic textiles artefacts. In particular, it reports how local community engagement was used to address social cohesion and well-being potential. Findings highlight the importance of quality of interaction, in particular ongoing in-person exchange either between crafter and customer (KOBA) or facilitator and crafts community groups (Touch Craft). It further emerged that social cohesion could contribute to finding solutions to environmental and economical sustainability challenges through boosting local production, made-to-measure and local business development.
Paper from conference held 18-20 September 2019.
This work - except for quotes, figures and where otherwise noted - is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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