Kate Goldsworthy

TED Research Workshop

Chelsea College of Art & Design

16th November 2009

I recently ran a group workshop with students at Chelsea attending the Textiles Environment Design research workshops.  The session was focussed on the question... How can a designer contemplate time and cycles at the beginning of the design process?

This session aimed to explore the concept of ‘borrowing’, in relation to materials an technologies, which could suggest a methodology for  ‘design for recycling’.  After a presentation outlining the material lifecycle context, the group workshop was designed to unpack issues of recyclability surrounding a collection of archetypal garments and considered the potential for a new approach based on material systems thinking.