Circular Design Futures

As The Design Journal celebrates its 20-year anniversary, the Textiles Environment Design (TED) research group at University of the Arts London marks a similar milestone moment. In this paper, I reflect on the journey I have taken as a member of this staff cluster of textile tutors and practicing industry designers. TED was co-founded at Chelsea College of Arts by Emeritus Professor Kay Politowicz and Jackie Herald in 1996. It was formed to cultivate new knowledge about what we then called ‘green’ textiles, so that through evolving our own studio work we could support the students with this important issue emerging in our sector