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📣Have our mini-projects helped meet FFN+'s objectives?
👉Here's a 3-minute summary of what Increasing Textile Circularity has achieved: circulartextilesportal.org/projects/inc...
❓ How have our mini-projects helped meet Future Fibres Network's objectives?
See what CollaborAcademy has accomplished here: 👇circulartextilesportal.org/projects/future-fibres-c...
🦕We are delighted to have hosted such a successful event themed- Fashion and Textiles: The threads run much deeper than the ‘plastics problem’ at the @Natural History Museum. We shared successes and what’s still to come. Thank you to all the attendees for their great contributions!
🪡 Read the latest project NEWS in which Dr Ruth Cherrington reflects on the emerging themes from her mini project, The Business of Repair. Here are few she mentions:
🧵 Repair as a brand differentiator
🧵 Operational complexity
🧵 Consumer behaviour
👉https://futurefibresnetworkplus.com/1750-2/
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Still space for tomorrow evening in London!
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📢 New Blog post available from Ben Parker from the @exeter.ac.uk
❓ How has your network grown through Future Fibres Network Plus?
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📣New project announcement 👇
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📢 Project Announcement!
Find more details of our new NERC: (Natural Environment Research Council)-funded project below 👇
What makes this network unique? Here's Richard Blackburn, Deputy PI talking at the Design Museum, on why the collaborations between environmental scientists and designers can shape the fashion of the future.
#circularfashion #SustainableFashion #FutureFibresNetworkPlus
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Watch Prof Tamara Galloway introduce our 2nd Townhall Meeting at the Design Museum this summer. A year after we announced the launch of our Flexible Fund for mini research projects, our project partners provide updates on their exciting work and achievements so far.
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🎤 Dr Abigail Irving-Munro heads up the Network Plus in Circular Fashion & Textiles Programme Co-ordination Team Early Career Researchers network. Watch her talking recently at FFN+ Townhall #2 event at the Design Museum about the importance of creating such a network. youtube.com/shorts/GvBzn...
📽️Watch Peter Palmer from Circular Flow present how Natural Environment Research Council funding is helping improve the current neoprene (what wetsuits are made from) 🏄 recycling landscape in the UK.
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📰 See the latest events and news in our June newsletter here 👇 ! To subscribe go to the website.
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At our 2nd Townhall meeting we heard from experts about how our projects are embedding circular principles at the heart of the fashion & textile sector. Here, Rachel Singer from ReLondon hopes to influence a wide audience with her project UP (more info on website).
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🎤 **Mini project Interview**
❓ Have you ever thought about where your wetsuit goes when you’ve finished with it?
Here’s an interview with Dr Katie Major-Smith from one of the newly-funded NERC projects below: youtu.be/Q1MlzFbh7d4
Special thanks to Tikisurfshop.com
📽️In this video Professor Mahbub Hassan from the University of the Arts London explains how the work he and his team at Sequinova and the University of Exeter are carrying out on sustainable sequins can help make the fashion industry more responsible👇
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📽️ *Project Interview *
As a project we want to ensure that we leave a legacy by innovating in both🎓education and skills in the Fashion and Textile Industry.
Rosie Hornbuckle from @unioftheartslondon.bsky.social is PI of CollaborAcademy. 👓Take a look! 👇https://youtu.be/866oUosmuI0
Interview with Prof Stephen Russell
How can we help reduce the c1.4 million tonnes of UK’s textile waste? We can make our economy more circular by developing the UK’s infrastructure for handling post-consumer waste, allowing it to be used optimally by end-of-life markets.
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🎤 **Mini Project Interview**
How can we help deal with athletic attire being thrown away prematurely due to malodour? By co-designing biotic textiles and care products.
See this short video from Dr Angela Sherry for more details!
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Our March Newsletter has just been published! Follow the link here for all the latest news!
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To address one of the most environmentally damaging processes in the textile supply chain the University of Leeds has partnered with Keracol Ltd.
🎥 👇 See this short video from Dr Joseph Houghton for more details.
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🎤Project News!
🤝 UAL and University of Leeds have partnered with Ananas Anam and Salt.Fabrics , thanks to funding from NERC. To see more watch an interview with Dr @Helen Paine, the project's PI. 👉futurefibresnetworkplus.com/ff/all-cellulose-composi...
*Project News!* Work has started on the Increasing Textile Circularity Project which received funding from NERC recently.
Follow the link to hear a video interview with Max Kelly from University of Plymouth who is working with industry partner Plan B. futurefibresnetworkplus.com/ff/increasin...