TFRG

The Textile Futures Research Group comprises researchers across Chelsea College of Art and Design, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London College of Fashion, at the University of the Arts London.

The remit of the Unit is to undertake a clearly focused range of textile related research that facilitates technology translation and convergence, improving the interface between science and design, the exploration of sustainability, the expansion of the textile product/applications, and the redefinition of cultural and aesthetic norms.

Using a variety of research methods and partnerships, TFRG brings together staff working in different colleges of the University of the Arts London, other national and international academic, research and cultural institutions, industry and commerce. TFRG is building on staff and student work in the areas of fashion, product, environment, architecture, medicine, well-being as well as history and theory. The research feeds back into current and future graduate and postgraduate programmes and provides through its activities and outputs (products, publications, patents, conferences, etc.) a creative profile that constructively counterbalances the proliferation of technology driven textile research.
TFRG would like to thank the following companies and organisations for their support: