The idea of our project has evolved over the past three years. In this time, we have developed research and several sustainable innovations within the fashion industry that have enabled us to develop a strong vision on the products of tomorrow, new manufacturing methods and the enhanced benefits they can bring to the user, the environment and to our economy. They have each contributed to the development of the current idea. Amongst these we mention:

• OMDANNE - the world’s first circular and multifunctional fashion collection, which consists of three pieces of clothing that can transform into over 10 styles each, and the garments are 100% biodegradable. This project was inspirational to our current idea especially through its closed-loop system and the multifunctional design strategy that we developed for it;

 

•  S-Bags - the next generation of bags that consumers can download and easily make themselves with pre-owned materials.  The guided do-it-yourself bags are a precursor to our current idea: using automated planning to synthesize similar instruction guides for assembling garments from fabric blocks.

AI Research: 

• Andrei Ciortea, Simon Mayer, and Florian Michahelles. 2018. Repurposing Manufacturing Lines on the Fly with Multi-agent Systems for the Web of Things. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS ’18). International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Richland, SC, 813–822.

 

• Simon Mayer, Dominic Plangger, Florian Michahelles, and Simon Rothfuss. 2016. UberManufacturing: A Goal-Driven Collaborative Industrial Manufacturing Marketplace. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT’16). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 111–119.

  Design, Leadership and Organisation Research: 

• Cristiana Dan and Julian Mühlmeier. 2019.  The new roles of the fashion designer in organisations transitioning to a circular economy. Master studies. Faculty of Culture and Society, the Department of Urban Studies. Malmö University. https://195.178.227.4/handle/2043/30002?show=full

 

• Cristiana Dan. 2017. Clothing that creates zero waste while discouraging consumption trough user-participatory design. Circular International Conference held by the Department of Business Development and Technology at Aarhus BSS.

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• Cristiana Dan. 2019. Transitioning Towards a Circular Economy through Sustainable Development - The case of IKEA. Integrative paper. Master studies. Faculty of Culture and Society, the Department of Urban Studies. Malmö University

 

• Cristiana Dan. 2019. “Social Innovation in the Fashion Industry: the Designer as a Leader towards Circular Economy”. Integrative paper. Master studies. Faculty of Culture and Society, the Department of Urban Studies. Malmö University