FIRE.Digital: Digital Research Platform for Collaborative Fashion Innovation

FIRE.Digital：时尚协作创新数字研究平台

• 批准号: AH/N504312/1
• 负责人: Sandy Black
• 金额: $ 10.21万
• 依托单位: University of the Arts London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2015 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FN504312%2F1
• 关键词: FIRE.Digital; Digital; Research; Platform; Collaborative

Micro, small and medium designer fashion and textile businesses act as an engine for the wider UK fashion and textilesector, driving much of the creative conceptualization for the mass-market sector. However, lack of time and resources inthe resource- and time-poor fashion and textile sector has inhibited R&D culture in fashion SMEs, weakening the UKsector's ability to innovate and capitalize on invention, and retain competitive edge internationally. Increasing pressuressuch as natural resource depletion, escalating consumption and waste, competition from overseas, and financialfluctuations driven by the seasonal nature of designer fashion all strongly indicate that the current fashion business modelis unsustainable from both ecological and economic perspectives.Collaborative research and development between fashion designers and university researchers has great potential inaddressing these issues, however this space is currently in its infancy.Micro enterprises and SMEs have a poor understanding of university research, its potential benefits and available fundingopportunities. These businesses cannot allocate resource toward R&D beyond the inventive approaches applied butseldom capitalized upon in designer fashion. University researchers often work in isolation from the sector, use a differentlanguage and time frames that are not always compatible with industry needs and expectations.FIRE.Digital addresses these issues by developing the first digital platform for research-focused UK network of fashionSMEs and researchers. The key aim of the Platform is to galvanize collaborative research and innovation and providesustainable source of data on UK fashion SMEs and research network.Building on the existing London-focused FIREup digital prototype (www.fireup.org.uk), FIRE.Digital will develop into a highendonline tool for a UK-wide network of fashion industry and researchers to connect via user-friendly online network, aswell as access curated fashion and textile research content, including news and funding opportunities.FIRE.Digital will develop existing standard backend tools to create bespoke digital data collation and visualization tools andmethodologies, enabling capture of quantitative and qualitative data from the registered users. This data will providesignificant insights into the structure of fashion SMEs, positioning of fashion and textile researchers, UK Fashion networkformations, digital behavior in fashion SME's and researchers, barriers to collaborative research and open innovation in theUK fashion industry and lead towards establishing new research topics. These tools could potentially find application inwider creative industry research context.FIRE.Digital strategic and technical elements will be developed in collaboration with a Digital Agency. FIRE Focus Group,consisting of designer fashion and textile SMEs and researchers, will be utilized for analysis, development and testing ofthe platform.UAL researchers will focus on defining fashion ontology and typology, which will underpin the site functionalities, as well asact as a benchmark for classification of UK fashion and textile sector for digital purposes.A comprehensive database of UK fashion researchers and fashion/textile relevant higher education institutions will becollated in order to populate the platform and provide an accessible knowledge database of potential academic partners forcollaborative research.The collation and classification of potential sources of fashion research news and information will provide a basis for asustainable stream of fashion and textile research, and act as a reference resource for both fashion SMEs and researchersincluding development of new editorial content featuring groundbreaking people and research themes.

微型，中小型设计师时尚和纺织品业务是更广泛的英国时尚和纺织品的引擎，推动了大众市场行业的许多创意概念化。然而，缺乏资源和时票的时尚和纺织业领域缺乏时间和资源，抑制了时尚中小型企业的研发文化，削弱了Uksector创新和利用发明的能力，并在国际上保持竞争优势。随着自然资源耗竭，消费和浪费，海外的竞争以及由设计师时尚的季节性驱动的金融失调，增加了压力，这一切都强烈表明，从生态和经济的角度来看，当前的时尚商业模特都无法实现。大学的研究人员对这些问题具有很大的潜力，但是这个空间目前处于起步阶段。MicroEnterprises和SME对大学的研究，其潜在利益和可用的资助下机会的了解很差。这些企业无法将资源分配给研发，而不是以设计师方式使用的Butseldom offerseldom。大学的研究人员经常与该行业孤立地工作，使用不同的语言和时间范围，这些语言和时间范围并不总是与行业需求和期望兼容。Fire.Digital通过开发以研究为重点的英国Fashionsmes和研究人员网络的第一个数字平台来解决这些问题。该平台的关键目的是激发协作研究和创新，并为英国时尚中小型企业和研究网络提供可维护的数据来源。建立现有的伦敦以伦敦为中心的Fireup数字原型（www.fireup.org.uk），fire.digigital.digigital.开发成高端线工具，以供英国范围内的时装行业和研究人员通过用户友好的在线网络连接，以及访问精心策划的时尚和纺织研究内容，包括新闻和资金机会。Fire.Fire.Digital.Digital将开发现有的标准后端工具为了创建定制的数字数据整理和可视化工具和方法，可从注册用户捕获定量和定性数据。这些数据将为时尚中小企业的结构，时尚和纺织研究人员的定位，英国时尚网络形象，时尚中小企业的数字行为以及研究人员的数字行为，对Theuk时尚界的开放创新障碍以及建立新的研究主题的开放创新。这些工具可能会与数字代理商合作开发数字战略和技术元素，从而有可能找到应用程序的创意行业研究环境。由设计师时尚和纺织品中小型企业和研究人员组成的消防焦点小组将用于平台的分析，开发和测试。研究人员将专注于定义时尚本体论和类型学，这将支持该站点功能，以及ASACT作为基准测试。为了将英国时装和纺织领域的分类用于数字目的。英国时尚研究人员和时尚/纺织相关的高等教育机构的全面数据库将构成泡沫，以填充平台并提供潜在的学术合作伙伴的可访问知识数据库，以实现验证研究。时尚研究新闻和信息的潜在来源的分类将为时尚和纺织品研究流提供基础，并充当时尚中小企业和研究人员的参考资源，包括开发具有开创性的人和研究主题的新社论内容。

项目成果

The End of Fashion: Clothing and Dress in the Age of Globalization

时尚的终结：全球化时代的服装和服饰

• 发表时间: 2018
• 作者: Black S

Design Research for Change

变革设计研究

• 发表时间: 2018
• 作者: Loudon G