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Creators: | Rigby, Emma, Whitson-Smith, Jade and Harrison, Lizzie | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Corporate Creators: | London Design Festival | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Abstract: | Clothes laundry is one of the hidden practices of fashion - while wearing clean looking and fresh smelling clothes is fundamental for most people, our laundry practices are concealed within the monotony of everyday life. And loaded with cultural and social meanings. Yet laundry practices are simultaneously problematic since the collective use of domestic washing machines and dryers consume massive quantities of environmentally significant resources such as energy and water. The environmental impacts of laundering are inadvertent and somewhat ironic: laundry can be understood as a practice of both purity and pollution. Efforts to reduce impacts from laundry have been mainly focused on technological efficiency and individual changes in behaviour. These initiatives appeal to a logic of direct reductions in resource use, but they fall short in responding to the meanings and values that are reproduced and enacted through doing the laundry and the social construction of practices. As such, despite continuously improving product and appliance efficiency, the net consumption of energy incurred through doing the laundry has in fact doubled since 1970 (Goodright and Wilkes, 2015). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Official URL: | http://m.londondesignfestival.com/events/laundry-p... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Item Type: | Show/Exhibition | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Schools: | School of Art, Design and Architecture School of Art, Design and Architecture > Textile thinking | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date: | 20 September 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Funders: | King's College London, University of Huddersfield | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Event Title: | The Laundry Pile | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event Location: | Lila's Laundrette, London | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event Dates: | 20th September, 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
ID Code: | 33870 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Deposited By: | Jade Lord | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Deposited On: | 16 Nov 2017 14:51 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Modified: | 28 Aug 2021 12:23 |
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