Thorpe, Adam, Fight For Peace Ambassadors, Luta, Ltd. (2012) Luta Fightwear Collection. [Art/Design Item]
| Type of Research: | Art/Design Item | ||||||
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| Creators: | Thorpe, Adam | ||||||
| Group or Collective Creators: | Fight For Peace Ambassadors, Luta, Ltd. | ||||||
| Description: | This sportswear collection combines Thorpe’s research in collaborative socially responsive design for social innovation with his professional design practice. Fight for Peace, a youth charity founded in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas with sister centre in London, uses martial arts plus education to realise youth potential in violence/crime-ridden communities. In 2009 Thorpe was invited to create a fightwear brand, with profits to FFP. Thorpe designed/implemented a co-design methodology leveraging the knowledge of FFP’s ambassadors (mainly world champion martial artists), plus cultural insights from FFP’s young beneficiaries in London/Rio. Several workshops informed development of a fightwear collection, co-designed by Thorpe, since marketed worldwide. Please see http://www.luta.co.uk/ |
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| Your affiliations with UAL: | Colleges > Central Saint Martins Research Centres/Networks > Design Against Crime at the Innovation Centre (DAC) |
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| Date: | 2012 | ||||||
| Related Websites: | http://www.luta.co.uk/ | ||||||
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| Date Deposited: | 08 Oct 2013 11:58 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 08 Oct 2013 11:58 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 5417 | ||||||
| URI: | https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/5417 |
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