WHAT'S UP/Designing transitional
Donna Maione will in this seminar present her research, which draws on her work based on her dissertation, Recrafting Futures: Post-material Transformations Toward Clothing Longevity. Through the approach of transition design and design activism, Donna challenges the exponential economic growth on a finite planet and the production of waste across every stage in the textile supply chain. In order to disrupt the current system of taking, making, and wasting, Donna navigates the complexities of social norms and attitudes, highlighting the vitality of recrafting and repair as a starting point for design to redesign, shift the paradigm, and create space for smaller, local nested ecologies of interventions. By engaging with the textiles we already own, Donna explores new ways of imagining plural futures for clothing and textile systems through practices of craft and remaking and asks, "How can we design for redesigning while working in transitional spaces"?
Donna Maione is a designer, educator, and artist. She is a post-doctoral research fellow at Linnaeus University. Her research in transitional spaces toward a convivial and sustainable world is motivated by her experience as a clothing designer witnessing the environmental damage as an externality of textile. In her textile practice she uses handcraft and mending, using the slow experience of hand stitching to discover new ways of researching and connecting with sustainable design methods and care for textiles. Donna has taught at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA and Parsons School of Design in New York City on topic in design studies, sustainable systems, systems thinking, how people work and research methods. Her research focuses on waste reduction in textiles, drawing connections through her industry experience, studio work, the design of everyday life and the temporal tension between perceptions of waste, and motivations toward design activism.
WHAT’S UP
It is a seminar series presenting current design research that reconsider existing paradigms and search for new paths, including for design. Through introducing current projects and experimental practices, the seminar series offers an opportunity not just to learn about important research but also to discuss if and how design can contribute to a sustainable equitable development. The invitation is open to everyone that is interested teachers, students, other active at the university and beyond. Everyone that is interested in design, change and sustainability are welcome.
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