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Products & Textiles Research Group

“Design and Sustainability” is the main theme of our research activities. Our agile team of researchers is exploring the subject from three main perspectives while considering the views of the relevant stakeholder groups. The research group is interdisciplinary in its cooperations, methods and composition and its competencies range from textile and product design to historical research and environmental sciences. Drawing conclusions from our collaboration with practice partners, we purposefully transfer the results produced in our projects and our contribution towards achieving the SDGs.

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Perspektive Research Group Product and Textiles

Design and Sustainability as the Product and Textiles research group’ main theme

Circularity & Systems

The federal climate strategy and new EU regulation warrant swift action on the market and in the textile industry. In addition to slow growth and material circularity, the systemic rethinking of closed-loop processes is a pertinent area of research for a textile industry striving to become sustainable.

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Committed to achieving resource effectiveness, we aim to develop product solutions and design strategies that facilitate circular processes. In product design, we follow a cascading circular economy approach, assessing design strategies and the associated fields of action over the full life cycle in collaboration with our research partners from industry, politics and public. In our work, we greatly benefit from our expertise in circular design, textile materials and processes. We use science-based methods to assess the effectiveness of our innovation.

Recovery & Secondary Raw Materials

Short utilisation phases, poor recycling rates and reparability, and a low fibre-to-fibre recycling rate are hallmarks of the environmental impact of the textile industry’s linear economic model. We investigate concepts for novel recovery processes and secondary raw materials to address the real-life challenges associated with recycling.

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Applying our materials and design skills to help develop visions and to communicate them across the value chain, we assume as design researchers a key role in the circular design of products and process. Our work is driven by the understanding that, by replacing virgin materials with recycling materials, a significant share of the emissions produced can be avoided. It also extends to empowering industrial nations to re-utilise their waste in an ecologically sound manner in future.

Actors, Participation & Cultural Transformation

Our focus rests on the cultural impact of design. Unsustainable production and utilisation practices that have been entrenched since the industrial revolution are being scrutinised on our journey towards a more livable future.

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What is the future role of design in shaping a collective understanding of sustainability? As design researchers, we are exploring methods that help us develop an alternative approach to materials, processes and products—be it as a society, as institutions, as manufacturers or as individual consumers. 
We consider ourselves to be a complex, interactive fabric of human and non-human actors committed to supporting cultural transformation, a paradigm change, and to overcoming the self-interested mid-term advantages of an anthropocentric worldview.

News (Only in German)

Lebendige Fassade

Textildesign und Photovoltaik: Wie geht das zusammen? Hervorragend, wie eine Demowand in der Viscosistadt in Emmenbrücke zeigt. Farbige Solarpanels fügen sich visuell in ihre Umgebung ein und sorgen so für mehr Akzeptanz der Technologie.

Mitarbeiterinnen des Spinnlabs

Ein Labor für clevere Spinnereien

Ob Jeans aus Altkleidern oder Pflaster aus Brennnesseln – im Spinnlab der HSLU testen Forschende recycelte Fasern auf ihre Industrietauglichkeit.

Forscherin erklärt das Material

Ein Material für alle Fälle

Forschende der HSLU haben eine neuartige Sportjacke kreiert, deren Knöpfe und Verschlüsse aus Recycling-Polyester bestehen.

Current projects (Partially German)

Solar Design Tools

Solar Design Tools provide tools for architects and building owners to design more solar systems on visible pitched roofs and façades in a desired colour and with predictable energy efficiency.

Projektplan mit zirkulärer Grafik

Circle Up Textiles (CUT) 2

Circle Up Textiles (CUT) focuses on theory-based, sustainable design strategies and implements these in pilot collections of the business partners. The aim is to develop a design recommender tool that will help shape the transformation of the industry.

Kreislauf einer nachhaltigen Textilwirtschaft

Mono.Loop.Poly

The project aims to create a "textile-to-textile" material cycle for mono-material polyester products, with defined standards. A design library will support the creation of products compatible with the material cycle.

CWW - Circular Workwear

CWW explores design strategies, reuse models, end-of-life workflows, and digital product data in workwear to bridge the gap from linear to circular practices.

Alttextilien auf einem Haufen

Zürcular

The project Zürcular examines the local reuse and recycling of textile waste using the city of Zurich as an example. The investigations' findings lead to fields of action and recommendations for a sustainable local and circular system for used textiles.

Viscosilab

The Lucerne School of Design, Film and Art, Viscosistadt AG and Monosuisse AG are creating a new research cooperation for sustainable textiles with the Viscosistadt Lab. This is intended to realign the textile competencies at the location in Lucerne-Emmenbrücke.

Experimente mit Verputz in unterschiedlichen Körnungen und Qualitäten

Materialität@hslu

The transdisciplinary team at the Lucerne School of Design, Film and Art and the Lucerne School of Engineering and Architecture focuses on high-quality materiality and considers the entire life cycle of a product in an effort to promote the conscious use of resources.

Current projects (Partially German)

Das Design als Enabler für konsequent nachhaltige Textilprodukte

Die Dissertation untersucht wie und wo das Design innerhalb der textilen Wertschöpfungskette als aktiver Treiber einer nachhaltigen Zukunft agieren kann.

Monomaterial als Designstrategie

Das Promotionsprojekt untersucht die Designstrategie Monomaterial im Hinblick auf eine dringend benötigte, verbesserte Werkstoffzirkularität aus der Perspektive des Designs.

Project Gallery –  INTERIOR EMBROIDERY, E–BROIDERY, BAMBUSIGNS (Captions only in German)

Interior–Stickerei Produktion
Interior–Stickerei Inszenierung
Interior–Stickerei Inszenierung
E-Broidery-2.0, Systematische Experimente zur Wahrnehmung von chromatischem Licht und Textilien, Hochschule Luzern – Design & Kunst
E-Broidery-2.0, Systematische Experimente zur Wahrnehmung von chromatischem Licht und Textilien, Hochschule Luzern – Design & Kunst
E-Broidery-2.0, Experiment mit Testpetson zur Wahrnehmung von chromatischem Licht und Textilien, Hochschule Luzern – Design & Kunst
E-Broidery 2.0, Impressionen vom Expertenworkshop, Hochschule Luzern – Design & Kunst
E-Broidery 2.0, Vorhang Inszenierung, Hochschule Luzern – Design & Kunst
E-Broidery 2.0, Impressionen vom Expertenworkshop, Hochschule Luzern – Design & Kunst
E-Broidery 2.0, Experiment zur Wahrnehmung von chromatischem Licht, Hochschule Luzern – Design & Kunst
Future Skiwear, Skizzen, Hochschule Luzern – Design & Kunst
Future Skiwear, Arbeiten mit Experten, Hochschule Luzern – Design & Kunst
Future Skiwear, Arbeiten mit Experten, Hochschule Luzern – Design & Kunst
Dagsmejan, Schlafposition 034, Hochschule Luzern – Design & Kunst
Dagsmejan, Schlafposition 073, Hochschule Luzern – Design & Kunst
Dagsmejan, Schlafpositionen-Bett, Hochschule Luzern – Design & Kunst
e–broidery Inszenierung
e–broidery Detailansicht eLumino
e–broidery Versuchsanordnung
Das interdisziplinäre Architekturprojekt Stoffwechsel ist dreiteilig aufgebaut und behandelt die Bereiche temporäre textile Bauten, textile Innen- und Aussenisolation.
Bambus als Ersatz von erdölbasierten Stoffen
Bambusgarn ist ökologisch und vielfältig einsetzbar.
Bambusgarn lässt Textilien edel glänzen.
Bambusfasern sind sowohl elastisch als auch robust.
Projekt Adaptives Blendschutztextil
Projekt Adaptives Blendschutztextil_2
Projekt EXXE Mustersteine
Projekt EXXE Mustersteine in der Produktionskette
Projekt EXXE Mustersteine mit Farbversuchen
Projekt Mit Energie und Farbe Landschaft pragen
Projekt Mit Energie und Farbe Landschaft pragen_2
Projekt Texcycle Dekorplatten
Projekt Texcycle Garnherstellung
Projekt Texcycle Garnherstellung_2
Projekt Texcycle Garnherstellung_3
Projekt Texcycle Garnkone
Projekt Texcycle Garnkone closeup
Projekt Texcycle Nadelvlies
Projekt Texcycle Papier
Projekt Texcycle Vlies
Projekt Adaptives Blendschutztextil
Projekt Adaptives Blendschutztextil_2
Projekt EXXE Mustersteine
Projekt EXXE Mustersteine in der Produktionskette
Projekt EXXE Mustersteine mit Farbversuchen
Projekt Mit Energie und Farbe Landschaft pragen
Projekt Mit Energie und Farbe Landschaft pragen_2
Projekt Texcycle Dekorplatten
Projekt Texcycle Garnherstellung
Projekt Texcycle Garnherstellung_2
Projekt Texcycle Garnherstellung_3
Projekt Texcycle Garnkone
Projekt Texcycle Garnkone closeup
Projekt Texcycle Nadelvlies
Projekt Texcycle Papier
Projekt Texcycle Vlies

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