Professor Alice Payne: Design researcher

by Geoff Ebbs
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Associate Professor in Fashion at the School of Design at QUT, Prof. Payne writes and researches about innovation that reduces waste in fashion.


“The main problem is that fashion has encouraged us to consume so much. In earlier times, fabric was considered valuable and every scrap, literally, was treasured.

“There are different approaches
that address this:

  1. Design out waste
  2. Design with waste
  3. Dematerialise.

You can see the full entry in Your Life Your Planet or find out more about Professor Payne’s research at Q.U.T.

See also Tenfingerz entry

Geoff Ebbs

Geoff is an author, publisher and performer dedicated to building an independent media. He worked for Australian Consolidated Press as a Packer editor until starting his own media company in the mid-nineties. The Generator started life as a radio show on Byron Bay's Bay FM and continues as an umbrella for the Cage, the Cross and Great Notion. These digital assets have now been shared with EcoRadio.net, a radio show with a similar history.

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