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Cork as a Relevant Material in Fashion: A Study of Socio-Cultural Trends and a Semiotic Reading of the Cork-a-Tex Yarn

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Human Systems Engineering and Design III (IHSED 2020)

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The main objective of this research is to understand the symbolic and cultural readings that the Cork-a-Tex yarn can have as a new fashion design textile. The methodology is divided into two parts: literary review and analysis. The literary review contextualizes the main themes of this paper and the analysis approaches both semiotic and trend methods, framing the case study as a ‘cool signal’ of socio-cultural trends. Both analyses contribute to a cultural reading of meanings behind the case study and promote a better perception of contexts and mindsets. Through this combination of methods, we understand the framework of meanings imprinted on the object. Understanding its cool nature and association with trends reinforces the need for developments of new materials from cork and stimulates research on socio-cultural trends.

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  1. Faculdade de Arquitetura, CIAUD, Centro de Investigação em Arquitetura, Urbanismo e Design da, Universidade de Lisboa, Rua Sá Nogueira, Pólo Universitário, Lisbon, Portugal

    Theresa Lobo

  2. Faculdade de Letras, ULICES, University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies, Alameda da Universidade, Lisbon, Portugal

    William Afonso Cantú & Nelson Pinheiro Gomes

  3. IPAM, Instituto Português de Administração de Marketing, Quinta do Bom Nome, Estr. da Correia 54, Lisbon, Portugal

    William Afonso Cantú

  4. UNIDCOM, Unidade de Investigação em Design e Comunicação, Av. D. Carlos I 4, Lisbon, Portugal

    Theresa Lobo & William Afonso Cantú

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  1. University of Central Florida, Winter Park, FL, USA

    Waldemar Karwowski

  2. Institute for Advanced Systems Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA

    Tareq Ahram

  3. Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Pula, Croatia

    Darko Etinger

  4. Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Pula, Croatia

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  5. Campus du Moulin de la Housse, Université de Reims Champagne Ardenne, GRESPI, Reims Cedex 2, France

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Lobo, T., Cantú, W.A., Gomes, N.P. (2021). Cork as a Relevant Material in Fashion: A Study of Socio-Cultural Trends and a Semiotic Reading of the Cork-a-Tex Yarn. In: Karwowski, W., Ahram, T., Etinger, D., Tanković, N., Taiar, R. (eds) Human Systems Engineering and Design III. IHSED 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1269. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58282-1_5

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