Circular Textile Design: Old Myths and New Models

Practice-based textile research has an important role to play in understanding the potential for material flows for all design disciplines. We know that designers need to work with circularity principles within a sustainability framework and must fully understand the technical and biological cycles. Yet innovation in the field has shown us that for textile designers, circular design also needs to consider how these cycles can interconnect and how understanding the speed of cycles is important too. This chapter presents four projects – developed through interdisciplinary projects with scientists and industry experts – that propose new strategies for impacting our future design decisions.