Considerate Design for Personalised Fashion Products

This portfolio project will develop new fashion products – one piece knitwear and fashion accessories – which integrate the craft skills of fashion making with new technologies. It will propose new design processes which will have reduced environmental impact and consider both the end user and the entire life cycle of the product. The theoretical underpinning of the project is the identification and analysis of the design process and creation of guidelines for a `Considerate Design’ model which will be tested against theories of complexity in design.

The project responds to the rapidly changing context of fashion and positions the user at the centre of the design process. It aims to produce personalised fashion products using new applications of 3D body scanning linked to rapid prototyping methods to produce customised body related forms integrated with different direct manufacturing and production processes: the direct 3D production of seamfree knitwear, the manufacture of bespoke bags, and creation of body conformable seamless textile structures. The sub-projects each have a relevance to industry in either the short or longer term, contributing to the concept of mass customisation, to create viable products which are individually tailored to requirements.

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