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Sustainable Approaches To Textile Design: Lessons From Biology, Veronika Kapsali, Cathryn Hall
Sustainable Approaches To Textile Design: Lessons From Biology, Veronika Kapsali, Cathryn Hall
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Models such as the circular economy, offer guidance to actors from the fashion and textile industry on how to navigate the negative environmental, ethical, and social impacts of the sector’s current and historic practices. The principles underpinning these models originate from the intersection of biology and general systems theory and have provided us with valuable alternative paradigms via a top-down lens. This paper seeks to explore the potential for additional insight into sustainable textile design practice from biology by reviewing sustainable design principles emerging from top-down (ecology + systems view) within the context of a bottom-up (biology + engineering) approach. …
55 Mill Street, Junrong Yu
55 Mill Street, Junrong Yu
Interior Environments-Commercial Spaces
The main idea of this design is to create an elegant, artistic, eco-friendly space. All materials used are sustainable. In selecting wood, glass, and other materials, the focus is on durable products. In terms of color selection, beige, pink, green, orange, etc., are used in this design to match the red brick wall of the building itself. The overall style of this design is contemporary. The work area in Building One is minimalist, keeping the entire work environment clean and tidy. Many plant elements and natural elements are applied to this area to maintain the natural atmosphere.