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My research explores economies on a local level focusing on waste reduction in textiles, drawing connections through everyday life and local upcycling practices. The goal is to understand the perceptions of waste and motivations for upcycling within diverse communities with relationships in scalar models from local and niche to meta-levels. The benefits of the knowledge gained are to inform designers’ pathways for slower product turnover through circular models. The research is in the conceptual phase; this chapter, therefore, presents more questions than answers. The continuous research is envisioned to include further literature review, semi-structured interviews, fieldwork, workshops, and auto-ethnographic research into varied motivations for and approaches to fashion upcycling in online communities focusing on generational differences and projected future pathways.
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Maione, D. (2021). Future Pathways of Upcycled Textiles. In: Sung, K., Singh, J., Bridgens, B. (eds) State-of-the-Art Upcycling Research and Practice . Lecture Notes in Production Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72640-9_13
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