Research Interest
Emmeline’s PhD ‘Fallout Fashion: Design guidelines for whole product remanufacture’ seeks to identify if a manufacturing facility in its current set up, could adopt a more circular system by reutilising rejected ‘whole products’ from its production lines.
Key Expertise
Textile Design and Fashion Manufacture, Circular Economy, Sustainability, Remanufacture, Upcycling.
Papers and Conferences
Child, E (2014) An auto ethnographic review of 48 pieces from the Emmeline 4 Re range. Transition: Rethinking Textiles and Surfaces Conference, Huddersfield University. November 26th-27th 2014
Child, E. (2016) Opportunities and barriers leading to the implementation of social innovation; An auto ethnographic case study of Emmeline 4 Re. International social innovation research conference (ISIRC), Glasgow, 5-7th September 2016
Child, E. (2016) An auto ethnographic review of 48 pieces from the Emmeline 4 Re collections; Defining barriers and opportunities leading to successful upcycling. The 90th Textile Institute World Conference. Poznan, Poland 25th-28th April 2016
Child, E. (2016) Developing models for successful upscaled upcycling of fashion. Circular Transitions Conference, London November 2016
Child, E (2019) Developing samples of small scale upcycling from pre-consumer textile fallout. In: W. Leal, D. Tyler, M. Miraftab, ed. Innovation in Textile Recycling: towards a more sustainable handling, re-use and disposal of textile materials. Springer
Textile Toolbox
REDRESSING ACTIVISM - SKIRT
In collaboration with Pr. Rebecca Earley and Dr Bridget Harvey
Inspired by the activist organisations and culture, as well as the colours, food and architecture from field research in Hong Kong during January 2014, this outfit was created to highlight the global relationship between waste the actions of the designer, the industry, food production. All exhibits aim to highlight the quantity of garments that are being thrown out each year in a context of a non-existing second-hand clothing market, and proposes waste reduction through demonstrating compelling strategies for upcycling.
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Current Research
Fallout Fashion: Design guidelines for whole product remanufacture, PhD, UAL (part-time)
Knowledge Transfer Partnership
In 2003-2005 I undertook a knowledge transfer partnership scheme with the Salvation Army Trading Company, seeking to create novel fashion from waste textiles. This led me to win the prestigious ‘Business Leader of Tomorrow’ award and was the launch of the Emmeline 4 Re business.