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Papers by Anja-Lisa Hirscher

International journal of sustainability in higher education, Feb 6, 2024

Routledge eBooks, Mar 14, 2023

10:00 – 11:00 Introduction to the SHIFT project: Entrepreneurial support systems and their impact... more 10:00 – 11:00 Introduction to the SHIFT project: Entrepreneurial support systems and their impact Klaus Fichter, Borderstep Institute, Coordinator SHIFT project The role of SHIFT in ECO-INNOVERA Holger Gruenewald, Project Management Jülich, ECO-INNOVERA, Berlin, Germany Sustainable innovation in Europe: Trends and emerging topics Martin Charter, Director The Centre for Sustainable Design, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK The new Circular Economy Package and the Eco-Innovation Action Plan Lana Žutelija, Policy Officer, DG Environment, Eco-Innovation & Circular Economy The Green Action Plan For SMEs Eva Revilla, Policy Officer, DG GROW, Clusters, Social Economy and Entrepreneurship

Routledge eBooks, Mar 14, 2023

GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, 2017

Das Reallabor Nachhaltige Transformation der Textilwirtschaft am Standort Dietenheim will die Nac... more Das Reallabor Nachhaltige Transformation der Textilwirtschaft am Standort Dietenheim will die Nachhaltigkeit der lokalen Textilindustrie stärken. Dabei verfolgen die Akteure unterschiedliche Ziele. Um den Erfolg einzelner Maßnahmen zu messen, hat das Reallaborteam gemeinsam mit den Stakeholdern einen Kriterienkatalog entwickelt, der die unterschiedlichen Ziele widerspiegelt und die Evaluation erleichtern soll.

&amp;quot;This master&amp;#x27;s thesis investigates design opportunities to moti... more &amp;quot;This master&amp;#x27;s thesis investigates design opportunities to motivate and enable sustainable consumer behaviour, especially regarding wasteful fashion and clothing consumption. A literature review provides a theoretical framework and builds background knowledge for three explorative case studies. These practice-led case studies gradually increase the user-involvement in sustainable consumption behaviour. Each case study elaborates a particular research question, evaluating the opportunities to change consumer behaviour with a different design approach. The case studies build upon one another, thus the third case study is discussed in most detail. Selected findings from these three case studies provide an insight to the possibilities of design for person-product attachment with participatory design concepts like &amp;#x27;half-way products&amp;#x27;: design objects which are intentionally &amp;#x27;unfinished&amp;#x27;. The conclusion drawn is that designers can enable a joyful participation in clothes making, for example with half-way products, and thus foster a stronger emotional value towards garments. This emotional value is likely to facilitate a stronger person-product attachment and encourage longer lasting products. Additionally, the research shows that the participatory design concept – &amp;#x27;half-way product&amp;#x27; was very much appreciated. The study concludes with possible future prospects. &amp;quot;

Agents of Alternatives, 2015

An independently published open book exploring the visions, actions, tools and impacts of change ... more An independently published open book exploring the visions, actions, tools and impacts of change agents, thinkers and ‘happeners’ (those who make things happen!). It shows the creative processes and tools for designing positive societal transitions. These transitions are revealed by showing the new hybrid relationships being forged between alternative approaches to learning, living, making, socialising, thinking and working. Agents of Alternatives enables professionals, amateurs and citizens to understand the rich possibilities of creating and designing together in open, participatory and imaginative ways. It provides an integrated and systemic collection of case studies, essays and interviews from well-known international contributors and local activists, collated by an international team of editors.

Research Journal of Textile and Apparel, 2013

This study discusses emerging design activities in the fashion industry and their implications fo... more This study discusses emerging design activities in the fashion industry and their implications for motivating sustainable consumption. The paper provides an insight into the broad opportunities of fashion activism for designers. As the basis for discussion and evaluation of the research questions, the author has compared the applicability of the bespoken strategies with selected findings from her own empirical case study. The case study entails two participatory clothing design workshops with 'half-way' products. The main research question elaborates on whether fashion activism can be considered as a tool for designers to help consumers defeat their desire to constantly consume more. This involves three sub-questions. First, how effective is fashion activism as a tool in raising awareness for sustainability issues in the fashion industry? Secondly, do participatory design processes and enabling solutions help the consumer gain new skills and develop a greater appreciation to...

RE J1034+396, a narrow-line Seyfert-1 active galactic nucleus (AGN), is the first example of AGNs... more RE J1034+396, a narrow-line Seyfert-1 active galactic nucleus (AGN), is the first example of AGNs that exhibited a nearly coherent quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) for the data collected by XMM-Newton in 2007. The spectral behaviors and timing properties of the QPO have been studied since its discovery. We present an analysis of the QPO in RE J1034+396 based on the Hilbert-Huang transform (HHT). Comparing other time-frequency analysis methods, the Hilbert spectrum reveals the variation of the QPO period in great detail. Furthermore, the empirical mode decomposition provides bandpass filtered data that can be used in the O-C and correlation analysis. We suggest that it is better to divide the evolution of the QPO in this observation into three epochs according to their different periodicities. In addition to the periodicities, the correlations between the QPO periods and corresponding mean count rates are also different in these three epochs. Further examining the phase lags in these epochs, we found no significant phase lags between the soft and hard X-ray bands, which is also confirmed in the QPO phase-resolved spectral analysis. Finally, we discuss the indications of current models including a spotted accretion disk, diskoseismology, and oscillation of shock, according to the observed time-frequency and spectral behaviors.

Journal of Cleaner Production

This paper analyses two open-ended design-projects in clothingwhere chance was taken as the main ... more This paper analyses two open-ended design-projects in clothingwhere chance was taken as the main processual motivation and posed arelevant role in the creation of new objects. With these cases, the authors aimto illustrate the potential of chance applied in methodologies for designingmore meaningful p-p (product-person) attachments. The authors researchthrough design by developing different methodologies inviting designers andusers to create unique garments. The aim is to gain a better understanding oftaking artistic practices in design as a form of knowledge production tocontribute to the discussion towards creative practices in research.

Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) This material is protected by copyright and other intellectual p... more Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) This material is protected by copyright and other intellectual property rights, and duplication or sale of all or part of any of the repository collections is not permitted, except that material may be duplicated by you for your research use or educational purposes in electronic or print form. You must obtain permission for any other use. Electronic or print copies may not be offered, whether for sale or otherwise to anyone who is not an authorised user. Hirscher, Anja-Lisa; Maze, Ramia

CoDesign

Participants' skills are highly important for a democratic design process, enabling everyone to p... more Participants' skills are highly important for a democratic design process, enabling everyone to participate and skilfully use designed tools and methods. This is particularly relevant for matters of participation in extended participatory design (PD) contexts that grow in scope and time span, such as in peer production communities. However, relatively little PD research has been devoted to the relation between skills and participation. Using a case rich in practice, a co-sewing café, this paper aims to understand the spectrum of participation by deeply examining the diversity and interrelation of the skills the participants practised in the café. To analyse the case, the paper compiles a tentative analytical framework based on PD and peer production literature. I ran and documented this 'research through design' experiment over eighteen months, hosting hundreds of participants. The diversity of the participants' skills was elucidated through the rich materials from the practice and then placed along a learning spectrum of skilful participation. The paper concludes with an overview of the different skills practiced and developed in the café and suggests that designing for skill development can contribute to sustaining participation in such contexts.

Journal of Education for Sustainable Development

Adolescents often do not consider sustainability in their consumption behaviours. Sustainability ... more Adolescents often do not consider sustainability in their consumption behaviours. Sustainability issues are challenging to communicate through course content alone. Against this background, the concept of fashion libraries (FLs) was introduced to adolescents at a non-denominational school in a small German city. The purpose was to explore whether the students’ attitudes would change over time in response to distinct interventions and project-based learning, such as the foundation of an FL, upcycling workshops and lectures on sustainability. The sample comprised 10 female adolescents in the age between 13 and 16 years, who volunteered to participate in the clothing library project. An exploratory mixed-methods approach, including a questionnaire, two interventions and pre-and post-intervention in-depth interviews, was utilized. The findings hint at an incremental change in the students’ attitudes towards an appreciation of garments and a change in behaviour. They started to reflect t...

Fashion Practice

pursued a PhD at Loughborough Design School, exploring how service design can be used to activate... more pursued a PhD at Loughborough Design School, exploring how service design can be used to activate textile artisan communities to transition towards a sustainable future. Currently, Francesco is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF), sponsored by Neal's Yard Remedies, investigating ways in which design activism can create counter-narratives towards sustainability in fashion.

Fashion Practice, 2019

To counter the unsustainability of the current mainstream fashion system, an increasing number of... more To counter the unsustainability of the current mainstream fashion system, an increasing number of designers are activating practices of social making aimed at empowering people through shared learning experiences. Within this context, the collaborative network Mode Uncut initiated Make Yourself…, a project focused on socializing value creation through making clothing differently. This article presents the project which took place in BITZ Unibz FabLab in Bolzano (Italy), as a case of social making of clothing in a “makershop” (i.e., a makerspace combined with a pop-up shop where diverse locals make clothes using discarded textiles and second-hand garments). Through this participatory action research project, it emerged that the process of bringing together diverse locals in a makerspace can help generating different clothing concepts, and that these concepts can bring about different value propositions for local clothes production. As an outcome of the project, a framework for social...

International journal of sustainability in higher education, Feb 6, 2024

Routledge eBooks, Mar 14, 2023

GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, 2017

Agents of Alternatives, 2015

Research Journal of Textile and Apparel, 2013

Journal of Cleaner Production

CoDesign

Journal of Education for Sustainable Development

Fashion Practice

Fashion Practice, 2019

This master's thesis investigates design opportunities to motivate and enable sustainable consume... more This master's thesis investigates design opportunities to motivate and enable sustainable consumer behaviour, especially regarding wasteful fashion and clothing consumption. A literature review provides a theoretical framework and builds background knowledge for three explorative case studies. These practice-led case studies gradually increase the user-involvement in sustainable consumption behaviour. Each case study elaborates a particular research question, evaluating the opportunities to change consumer behaviour with a different design approach. The case studies build upon one another, thus the third case study is discussed in most detail. Selected findings from these three case studies provide an insight to the possibilities of design for person-product attachment with participatory design concepts like 'half-way products': design objects which are intentionally 'unfinished'.

The conclusion drawn is that designers can enable a joyful participation in clothes making, for example with half-way products, and thus foster a stronger emotional value towards garments. This emotional value is likely to facilitate a stronger person-product attachment and encourage longer lasting products. Additionally, the research shows that the participatory design concept – 'half-way product' was very much appreciated. The study concludes with possible future prospects.

Agents of Alternatives enables professionals, amateurs and citizens to understand the rich possibilities of creating and designing together in open, participatory and imaginative ways. It provides an integrated and systemic collection of case studies, essays and interviews from well-known international contributors and local activists, collated by an international team of editors.

"Make{able} is a project and an open collaboration to encourage everyone to become active makers ... more "Make{able} is a project and an open collaboration to encourage everyone to become active makers of their own wardrobe.

With Make{able} we want to bring clothing and accessories design closer to the user. We provide you with an easy and fun platform to share, make and experience clothes making. Through three different workshop concepts we hope to offer something interesting for everyone. We facilitate workshops that bring you closer to working with the sewing machine, introduce you to other makers and designers and inspire you to make your own garments for your unique and individual style."

"rot.gelb.GRÜNe Mode Faire Kleidung – Eine Art Einstiegsdroge zur Weltverbesserung." Meine ... more "rot.gelb.GRÜNe Mode
Faire Kleidung – Eine Art Einstiegsdroge zur Weltverbesserung."

Meine Bachelorarbeit befasst sich mit dem Thema fair und
ökologisch rücksichtsvoll produzierter Kleidung und dem Versuch,
die Menschen im Konsumbereich Mode zu einem Innehalten und
Umdenken zu motivieren. Diese Problematik veranschauliche
ich in Form eines Guides, der in drei Kapitel unterteilt ist. Im
ersten Kapitel kläre ich die LeserInnen zuerst über generelle
Hintergründe im Fair Trade und Konsumbereich auf. Das zweite
Kapitel stellt dann Modebeispiele und DesignerInnen vor, damit
sich die potentiellen KäuferInnen einen Überblick verschaffen
können und DesignerInnen und ihre Philosophien kennen lernen.
Abschließen werde ich meine Arbeit mit einem Kapitel über
konkrete praktische Tipps und Informationen, wie jeder zum
Wandel der Kleidungsindustrie beitragen kann. Durch hilfreiche
Tipps für den Alltag, Links für weitere Informationen und konkrete
Adressen von Fair Trade Shops sollen die LeserInnen zum
Handeln motiviert werden."

A designers guide to exploring Bio-Composites. The comprehensive Compobast Fibres guide is here ... more A designers guide to exploring Bio-Composites.
The comprehensive Compobast Fibres guide is here for all sustainable designers who are in search of information and guidance through the world of old-new materials. We would like to bring you a resource you can glide through with ease and comfort, finding all the information needed for your environmental and sustainable practices and design criteria. This guide aims to introduce product and fashion designers to the idea of “the composite” as a structural, shapable material, useful for producing both flat and organic forms, and to suggest possibilities for replacing conventional fibers with natural fibers and biopolymers. Our experiments are by no means comprehensive, as material science in this area is relatively new and samples of the polymers expensive and challenging to use in our conventional workshop setting. Having said that, we feel it is important for designers to jump on board and start experimenting in this area, and join in the conversation about bio-composites and bio-plastics. Designers’ formgiving knowledge, plus a willingness to conduct creative hands-on trials, is a valuable contribution to the field. It can support and even direct material scientists toward developing the most useful materials.