Ecodesign and life cycle increasing of fashion products as an alternative to reducing environmental impact

• Grant number: 11/04739-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: August 01, 2011
• End date: June 30, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Interdisciplinary Subjects
• Principal Investigator: Cláudia Regina Garcia Vicentini
• Grantee: Verena Ferreira Tidei de Lima
• Host Institution: Escola de Artes, Ciências e Humanidades (EACH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The issue of sustainable development and sustainability is present and relevant nowadays. Are well known environmental aspects triggered by lifestyle adopted, justifying the relevance of the question. Currently, the excess of production, consumption and disposal of fashion products - and the fast pace and frequent as it happens - results in a social and environmental impact of considerable proportions. By identifying - in the production chain, the life cycle and the habits of consumption of fashion products - social and environmental aspects compatible and incompatible with sustainable development; by understanding and studying the relationship between design and sustainable development; and by listing the designable aspects of fashion products that influence the user in times of acquisition, use and dispose of them, this paper seeks to discuss possible projectual requirements for a fashion products design considering sustainable development, from a design approach on certain aspects of the fashion products that enable their useful life extension. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

LIMA, Verena Ferreira Tidei de. The lifetime extension of fashion clothing as an alternative for reducing its social and environmental impact. 2013. Master's Dissertation - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Artes, Ciências e Humanidades (EACH) São Paulo.