Fashion retailers are the nr. 1 influencers for consumers
If you aim for more consumer awareness about sustainable fashion, you need to support retail entrepreneurs in how they can engage their employees and clients.
The RAAK award is the leading award in the Netherlands for practice-oriented research at universities of applied sciences. Every year, the SIA chooses a winner from six nominated projects. This year, two of the six...
Knowledge Exchange through Applied Research and Education
Sustainability issues are wicked problems and complex to solve. To be able to solve them, collaboration is key. To find a solution, “You need to find a common ground otherwise, no one gets anywhere, and we cannot move...
This week Van Dale posted its new definition of the word ‘waste’ online. This reads: ‘raw materials from which new products can be made’. Kim Poldner, professor of Circular Business at the Mission Zero Centre of...
Thesis students help recycled felt change the fashion industry
Working with the company i-did and renowned couture designer Ronald van der Kemp (RVDK), three pairs of students shared their final thesis work centered around Project Trashure.
i-did: a unique concept within the global circular textile industry
Around 330 million kilos of old textile ends up on the textile waste mountain in the Netherlands every year. At i-did they clean this up by transforming old textiles into recycled felt.
As a fashion retailer, how can you better sell your sustainable range? This is what 60 design students from The Hague University of Applied Sciences pondered in the Next Fashion Retail research project.
An overwhelmingly inspirational day, the 19th of May saw the presentations of the Design with nature students in the context of project Trashure. Students were tasked with using nature to create sustainable design.