Empowering, Co-designing, Scaling: A Service Design Model for the Sustainable Future of Textile Artisans' Communities
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The document outlines a service design model aimed at empowering textile artisans' communities for a sustainable future amidst economic and environmental challenges. It emphasizes the importance of co-designing collaborative services, considering ethical labor and quality over aesthetics, and fostering a supportive ecosystem for artisans. Key findings highlight barriers such as financial dominance and consumer misconceptions, while enablers include the shift towards systemic thinking and technological advancements.
Empowering, Co-designing, Scaling: A Service Design Model for the Sustainable Future of Textile Artisans' Communities
- 1. empowering co-designing scaling: a service design model for the sustainable future of textile artisans’ communities Loughborough Design School | AHRC Design Star supervisors: Dr MC Escobar-Tello, Dr VA Mitchell Francesco Mazzarella, PhD researcher
- 3. research problem the global economic and environmental crisis is posing complex challenges
- 6. to explore how service design can contribute to encourage textile artisans’ communities towards a sustainable future aim
- 7. scope material by hands machinery digital tools bottom-up skills, quality human control material culture local, natural discarded fibres textiles & fashion artisan community local business small batches flexible local market tool making
- 8. PAR methodology 2A act sustainable future trends for TAC reflect barriers, enablers, sustainable manifesto plan map TAC & future trends plan sampling strategy, study protocol, pilot reflect impact of service design model 2Cto develop theoretical framework for sustainable future for TAC conclusions & discussion to develop flexible service design model of co-designing collaborative services for sustainable TAC to empower TAC to co-design a collaborative serviceto scale up innovations within enabling ecosystem 1B 1C 1A main studies evaluation scoping study 2B act sustainable future trends for TAC TAC: textile artisans’ communities
- 9. service design methodsdiscover define develop deliver focus group interviews shadowing contextual interviews brainstorming participatory design workshop stakeholders map ecosystem canvas servive blueprint user centred, relational, systemic process of co-creation of tangible and intangible values to encourage holistic sustainability
- 10. challenging sustainable futuresdiscover focus group interviews shadowing experts’ focus group shadowing semi-structured interviews
- 11. theoretical framework a sustainable manifesto for textile artisans’ communities Shift the focus from aesthetics to ethics, from style to quality meanings; Ethical labour and rights must be set: less bad is not good; Textile artisanship stands as a slow reaction to fast fashion; Textiles are interconnected to their wholeness: materials, processes, people, places; Being vs. having, learning from nature and acknowledging the unpredictable; Manage connectivity within local communities, as collective wisdom and social act of collaboration; Design as political agent, embracing diversity as resource, weaving synergies among different assets; Scale up open initiatives within peer-to-peer networks at a glocal scale; Understand the root system and trigger holistic and systemic change, from micro to macro scales; Build an enabling ecosystem: complex, adaptive infrastructure supported by polycentric governance. barriers enablers Dominance of financial structures based on profits; Lack of time & efforts to develop alternative models; Lack of skills; Export of machinery and outsource of production; Lack of interest for young people in craft production; Endangered craft heritage; Consumers’ misperception of quality; Over-consumption; Lack of information on textiles, artisans and sustainability challenges; Lack of sustainability uptake; Lack of training in strategies/management/ entrepreneurship in design curricula. Change of mindset (systemic thinking); Interconnected design-artisanship-academia -policy-consumers; Cultural empathy with artisans; Metatools, flexible, collaborative, reflective; Storytelling to elicit and convey engaging meanings; Empowerment models: access to information, awareness, ability, independency; Development of sustainable business models; Technological advancements.
- 12. PAR strategy participatory action research to develop a flexible service design model of co-designing collaborative services, encouraging textile artisans’ communities towards a sustainable future new york cape town nottingham to empower a heritage artisans’ community to scale up a cutting-edge artisans’ ecosystem to co-design with contemporary artisans
- 13. storytelling with nottingham lace artisansdefine contextual interviews brainstorming Kula Tsurdiu bridal dresses leavers lace shawls knitting lace jewellery embroidered lace G H Hurt & Son Ltd JC Middlebrook
- 14. initial findings g h hurt & son ltd storytelling with nottingham lace artisans photo-diaries SWOT analysis of ideas challenges & opportunities to move towards a sustainable future
- 15. next... community develop deliver participatory design workshop stakeholders map ecosystem canvas servive blueprint 1 day participatory design workshop: co-designing a sustainable future for nottingham lace artisans organisatio ns design ers consumers
- 16. textile artisans’ communities can contribute to a sustainable development rescue cultural heritage provide social engagement encourage economic development enhance environmental stewardship