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The sustainable design research is closely connected with the NODUS, Fashion/Textiles Futures and INUSE research groups as well as the Creative Sustainability Master’s programme.
CreaTures: Creative Practices for Transformational Futures aims at demonstrating effective paths to achieving sustainability, social cohesion and peaceful co-existence at a time of rapid change.
Sustainable textile systems: Co-creating resource-wise business for Finland in global textile networks (FINIX) is a joint research project with the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Aalto Design Research among others.
Towards Eco-Welfare State: Orchestrating for Systemic (ORSI) is a joint research project between Tampere University, the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Aalto Design Research.
Codesign and Human-Centred Design research includes co-design, service design, interaction design, user experience, end-user innovation and open design.
Research on fashion and textile design and design strategies, and textile and fashion knowledge building, particularly sustainable fashion and textiles.
Practice-based design research includes artistic research, design-driven exploration on emerging technologies and materials, and the action research–oriented development of new design methods and approaches.
