Circular Speeds: A Review of Fast & Slow Sustainable Design Approaches for Fashion & Textile Applications
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paper_title: The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility

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The Clock of the Long Now is an enigmatic study of time in 100 short chapters. Its point of reference is an actual millenial clock helpful for thinking, understanding, and acting responsibly over long periods of time. . Using the designing and building of the Clock of the Long Now as a framework, this is a book about the practical use of long time perspective: how to get it, how to use it, how to keep it in and out of sight. This is a potent book that combines the chronicling of fantastic technology with equally visionary philosophical inquiry. Using the designing and building of the Clock of the Long Now as a framework, this is a book about the practical use of long time perspective: how to get it, how to use it, how to keep it in and out of sight. Here are the central questions it inspires: *How do we make long-term thinking automatic and common instead of difficult and rare? *Discipline in thought allows freedom. One needs the space and reliability to predict continuity to have the confidence not to be afraid of revolutions *Taking the time to think of the future is more essential now than ever, as culture accelerates beyond its ability to be measured *Probable things are vastly outnumbered by countless near-impossible eventualities. Reality is statistically forced to be extraordinary; fiction is not allowed this freedom. This is a potent book that combines the chronicling of fantastic technology with equally visionary philosophical inquiry.
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paper_title: The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility

paper_content:

The Clock of the Long Now is an enigmatic study of time in 100 short chapters. Its point of reference is an actual millenial clock helpful for thinking, understanding, and acting responsibly over long periods of time. . Using the designing and building of the Clock of the Long Now as a framework, this is a book about the practical use of long time perspective: how to get it, how to use it, how to keep it in and out of sight. This is a potent book that combines the chronicling of fantastic technology with equally visionary philosophical inquiry. Using the designing and building of the Clock of the Long Now as a framework, this is a book about the practical use of long time perspective: how to get it, how to use it, how to keep it in and out of sight. Here are the central questions it inspires: *How do we make long-term thinking automatic and common instead of difficult and rare? *Discipline in thought allows freedom. One needs the space and reliability to predict continuity to have the confidence not to be afraid of revolutions *Taking the time to think of the future is more essential now than ever, as culture accelerates beyond its ability to be measured *Probable things are vastly outnumbered by countless near-impossible eventualities. Reality is statistically forced to be extraordinary; fiction is not allowed this freedom. This is a potent book that combines the chronicling of fantastic technology with equally visionary philosophical inquiry.
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paper_title: Future Makespaces and redistributed manufacturing

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This paper sets out some of our vision of future makespaces and redistributed manufacture, a pragmatic future vision, that reflects the state of makespaces now, tests ideas and aspirations of education and circular economy, and uses insights from those studies to imagine a future and its implications. ::: The context for this future scoping is the Future Makespaces in Redistributed Manufacture (FMs RdM) Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) project at the Royal College of Art. Over two years, we will be hosting symposia, funding feasibility studies and undertaking cross cutting research to understand the potential relationship of makespaces to redistributed manufacture and sustainability. ::: ‘Re-Distributed Manufacturing’, is a term which aims to encapsulate the rapidly changing geographies, organizational structures, value chains and distribution networks associated with new advances in materials sciences, engineering, digital and enabling technologies. It is akin to ‘on shoring’, but recognizes that the future of manufacturing will operate on a variety of scales according to specialism and material flows. ::: We consider that redistributed manufacture is a term that should not apply simply to the inevitable future of business as usual. Our framing of redistributed manufacture, taking advantage of ubiquitous computation and distributed infrastructure has the potential to apply to a different future state of production, one which is desirable not inevitable, which responds to the imperatives of our time and builds a production system fit for humans. As Sloan (2015) emphasises in his recent reflection on the sharing economy: ::: We are alive at a time when huge systems—industrial, infrastructural—are being remade, and I think it’s our responsibility as we make choices both commercial and civic…to extrapolate forward, and ask ourselves: Is this a system I want to live inside? Is this a system fit for humans? (Sloan 2015)
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Title: Circular Speeds: A Review of Fast & Slow Sustainable Design Approaches for Fashion & Textile Applications

Section 1: Introduction
Description 1: Describe the aim of the article, which is to understand the speed of textile product design within a circular fashion context, examining theoretical, industry, and practice-based research.

Section 2: Circular Design
Description 2: Discuss the principles of circular design, emphasizing the importance of holistic material recovery and systems thinking over traditional sustainability models.

Section 3: Fast, Slow and Everything in Between
Description 3: Review the research on fashion and speed, including the exploration of clothing rhythms and the proposition of combining fast and slow systems to achieve sustainability.

Section 4: Towards Designing for Circular Speeds
Description 4: Introduce the MFF Phase 2 research project and its aim to develop a discourse on multiple and proportionate speeds to improve the circular efficiency of fashion products.

Section 5: The Role of Design in a Creative and Collaborative Methodology
Description 5: Explain the interdisciplinary nature of good design practice, integrating ideas from various relevant disciplines to develop systemic solutions and sustainable design practices.

Section 6: Circular Design Through the Prototype
Description 6: Discuss the role of prototypes in circular design, emphasizing the iterative process of testing, redesigning, and collaborating to develop sustainable textile products.

Section 7: The Polarisation of Fast and Slow Fashion
Description 7: Examine the gap in knowledge regarding the dimension of time or speed within lifecycle thinking and outline the focus of the research on speed cycles in textile design.

Section 8: Circular Speeds Emerging from Textile Toolbox
Description 8: Analyze the design artefacts or prototypes developed during the first phase of the MFF project, highlighting polarised approaches of extending product life and designing for material recovery.

Section 9: Context of Slow
Description 9: Review industry responses to "slow fashion," focusing on extending product longevity through durable materials, timeless style, and care/repair services.

Section 10: Context of Fast
Description 10: Explore the potential of fast fashion approaches, including advances in material recovery technologies and innovative production systems that reduce environmental impacts.

Section 11: Conclusions and Circular Design Proposals
Description 11: Summarize the opportunities for design to innovate within the circular fashion economy by combining slow and fast approaches, and provide a framework of design proposals for future development.