Suzanne Lee, Senior Research Fellow at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London and author of Fashioning The Future: tomorrow’s wardrobe, is brilliantly combining fashion and biology in search of alternative fibre/material.
BioCouture is currently on display:
Trash Fashion: designing out waste
Antenna Gallery, The Science Museum London, until June 2011
The Future That Never Was: Alter Nature
ModeMuseum Hasselt, Belgium, until June 2011
Listen in on her recent TED talk:
CoDesign, the International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts, has a call for papers out under a special theme:
Socially Responsive Design – understanding the differences between service design, social design and social innovation and identifying tools and methods for designing and evaluating social change.
Click here to read the full details of this call for submissions.
Deadline for submission: 28 January 2011
Proposed timetable to publication thereafter:
Post-review notification of decisions: 30 April 2011
Deadline for submission of revised papers: 30 June 2011
Final selected papers to production: 9 September 2011
Publication of Special Issue: December 2011
Contact Professor Lorraine Gamman l.gamman at csm.arts.ac.uk with any questions about the Special Issue.