Digital Fashion Network (DFN)

数字时尚网络 (DFN)

• 批准号: AH/X007871/1
• 负责人: Abu Sadat Muhammad Sayem
• 金额: $ 4.58万
• 依托单位: Manchester Metropolitan University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FX007871%2F1
• 关键词: Digital; Fashion; Network; DFN

Today's fashion supply chain is multi-continental and intertwined with diverse elements scattered in all over of the world. The best option, probably the only option, to make it truly transparent, sustainable, and effectively manageable is to digitalise it seamlessly. While industrial and social digitalisation gained pace during the covid-19 pandemic and more and more digital solutions for industry 4.0 applications are appearing on the market, the digitalisation along the global fashion supply chain is not happening at same level at same depth and speed. Specially at the manufacturers' side in the countries like Bangladesh, China, Cambodia, Vietnam and others, it is far behind the situation at retailers' side in Europe and America. As a result, designers, fashion buyers/merchandisers and sustainability professionals at the European and American retailers' side struggle to implement and manage digital solutions while working with their Asian counterparts and the transparency and sustainability about the products from the fashion companies including the big names like Marks & Spencer, NEXT, NIKE, adidas, Primark etc. are always in question. On the other hand, digital fashion is not just limited to computer-aided design (CAD) and manufacturing (CAM), but rather runs throughout the fashion business, from product life cycle management and developing new business models that promote sustainability to connecting virtual and augmenting reality with fashion to enhance consumers' experience through smart solutions. It has emerged as a multidisciplinary field of knowledge that attracts overlapping interests from the academics, researchers and professionals coming from fashion design, business and technology; computer science, software engineering, animation and gaming, anthropometrics, supply chain management and industry 4.0, big data and artificial intelligence, and industrial sustainability. Realising the complexity of the issue, an action is deemed required to bring all parties of digital fashion together to streamline the adoption and development of innovative solutions along the global fashion supply chain. This is to be done through the proposed digital fashion network (DFN). The Network will be formed with members from industry and academia covering diverse disciplines and geographical locations related to the digital fashion and be expanded throughout the project life-time. It will organise several hybrid events including four workshops, one of which will be hosted by iCo-I in Bangladesh to better connect with the fashion manufacturers, six online webinars (one in every three months) on the latest innovations in digital fashion, an international conference on "Digital Fashion Innovation", a research paper competition for PGRs, one 3D design and illustration competition for students and an online exhibition. An edited book titled "Advances in Digital Fashion Innovations" through Textile Institute's Professional series (CRC Press and Taylor & Francis) will be produced with chapter contributions by the shortlisted speakers of the aforesaid conference. It also aimed to deliver an international research group for post-project collaboration in research and bidding activities. DFN will be unique in its kind as no such network focusing specially on digital fashion exists at present. The network will echo the ethos of the multiple United Nation's sustainable development goals (SGDs). It will contribute towards the achievement of the target 9.5 of SDG 9 through promotion of scientific research and upgradation of the technological capabilities of textile and fashion industrial sectors in developing countries in particular Bangladesh. It will also complement the target 12.a of SDG 12 by promoting digital fashion innovations in developing countries, e.g. Bangladesh, and catalysing towards the strengthening of their scientific and technological capacity to move towards more sustainable patterns of textile and fashion production.

当今的时尚供应链是多大陆的，并且与世界各地散布的各种元素交织在一起。最好的选择，可能是唯一的选择，使其真正透明，可持续性且易于管理，是无缝将其数字化。尽管工业和社会数字化在COVID-19大流行期间加快了步伐，并且在市场上出现了越来越多的工业数字解决方案4.0应用程序，但沿着全球时尚供应链的数字化并不是在相同的深度和速度下发生的数字化。特别是在孟加拉国，中国，柬埔寨，越南等国家的制造商方面，它比欧洲和美国零售商方的局势远远远远远远远远远远远远远远落后于欧洲和美国。结果，欧洲和美国零售商方的设计师，时尚购买者/销售商和可持续性专业人员在与亚洲同行合作，以及来自时尚公司的产品的透明度和可持续性，包括大牌，以及包括知名人士的产品的透明度和可持续性，努力实施和管理数字解决方案像Marks＆Spencer一样，Next，Nike，Adidas，Primark等始终受到质疑。另一方面，数字时尚不仅限于计算机辅助设计（CAD）和制造（CAM），而且还遍及整个时尚业务，从产品生命周期管理和开发新的业务模型，这些新业务模型促进可持续性到连接虚拟和通过时尚增强现实，通过智能解决方案来增强消费者的体验。它已成为一个多学科知识领域，吸引了来自时装设计，商业和技术的学者，研究人员和专业人员的重叠兴趣；计算机科学，软件工程，动画和游戏，人类计量学，供应链管理和行业4.0，大数据和人工智能以及工业可持续性。意识到该问题的复杂性，必须将一项行动视为将数字时尚的各方融合在一起，以简化全球时尚供应链沿全球时尚供应链的创新解决方案的采用和开发。这将通过拟议的数字时尚网络（DFN）来完成。 该网络将与来自行业和学术界的成员组成，涵盖与数字时尚相关的各种学科和地理位置，并在整个项目终身时间内进行扩展。它将组织几个混合活动，包括四个研讨会，其中一个将由ICO-I在孟加拉国举办，以更好地与时尚制造商建立联系，六个在线网络研讨会（每三个月）在数字时尚的最新创新中，国际上的最新创新关于PGRS的研究论文竞赛，一项针对学生的3D设计和插图竞赛以及在线展览的“数字时尚创新”会议。一本由纺织学院的专业系列（CRC Press和Taylor＆Francis）撰写的题为“数字时尚创新进展”的编辑，将由上述会议的入围者撰写。它还旨在提供一个国际研究小组，以进行研究和招标活动的项目合作。 DFN将是如此独特，因为目前没有这种专门针对数字时尚的网络。该网络将呼应多个联合国可持续发展目标（SGD）的精神。它将通过促进科学研究并升级尤其是孟加拉国的发展中国家的纺织品和时尚工业领域的技术能力来促进SDG 9的目标9.5。它还将通过促进发展中国家的数字时尚创新（例如孟加拉国，并努力促进其科学和技术能力，以朝着更可持续的纺织和时尚生产模式发展。