Centre of Material and Design Exchange (CO:MADE)
Collaborating to transform the future of fashion and textiles.
Collaborating to transform the future of fashion and textiles.
The Centre brings together researchers in creative practice, social science and humanities, business, material science and textile engineering through three interlacing themes: Circular Systems and Industrial Transformation, Material Innovation for Resilient Futures, and Designing Fashion for Social Change.
Designing meaningful interactions to transform fashion, textiles, culture and human experience.
Designing Fashion for Social Change brings together expertise across creative practice, design research and social science to explore meaningful interactions with fashion, textiles and clothing. Through objects, workshops, interactive installations and creative practice, we provoke conversations and explore how fashion can reshape values, behaviours and understandings of everyday life.
Transforming fashion and textile value chains through circular systems, policy innovation and industry collaboration.
Redesigning Systems and Industry Collaboration explores how fashion and textile systems can transition from linear production models to circular and regenerative futures. We focus on supply chains, governance, reuse systems and industry transformation, working closely with industry partners, policymakers and communities to enable scalable change.
Creating change through next-generation textile materials, technologies and manufacturing systems.
Material Innovation for Resilient Futures brings together expertise across textile engineering, fibre science, advanced materials, garment testing and manufacturing to develop next-generation materials, technologies and textile applications. By connecting laboratory-based research with advanced manufacturing, we translate innovation into real-world solutions that advance sustainability, enhance protection and enable new applications across industry and society.
Centre of Material and Design Exchange hosts state-of-the-art facilities and specialist equipment to provide accredited commercial testing and high impact research opportunities across advanced materials, fashion design and creative practice.
Associate Professor Taylor Brydges - Director
Address: School of Fashion & Textiles
Location: 25 Dawson Street, Brunswick, VIC 3056 Australia
Email: taylor.brydges@rmit.edu.au
Phone: +61 3 99259124
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.
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