Researching Fashion Technologies & Practices

The Fashion Technologies Research Group (FTRG) supports and showcases practice focussed research which explores the role of systems, tools and interfaces in fashion design and production. 

Making fashion has always been inextricably linked with technology, from the looms of the first Industrial Revolution to the emerging proposals for ethical and sustainable use of AI systems and collaborative robotics in Industry 5.0. FTRG is equally interested in the creative relationship between practitioners and tools at all points on this technological spectrum. Fundamentally FTRG focuses on research which recognises that practice is informed by technologies and technology design is informed by practices. In an academic field which has rarely explored the mechanisms of practice, only its creative outcomes, key questions include: How can the development of new tools help to shift practices and reduce the catastrophic environmental impacts of the fashion industry? How can we quantify and document existing skilled practices, to preserve them as technology advances and tools develop? Can this awareness help to create innovative ‘low code’ and ‘no code’ technologies which are accessible to creative practitioners? What new creative forms can be achieved with innovative technologies?

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