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Writing and Publications

Over the last 15 years I've published extensively within the International Design Research Community. From book chapters, journal and conference papers to thought pieces and white papers. 

A selection of my work is below. 

Further work can be accessed via my Google Scholar profile

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2023

Reincarnation: Waste, reuse, repair and upcycling

In Chapter 24, Choi, Ballie and Puri, discuss how clothing might be designed, used and cared for in the future and developed in ways in which consumers can be part of the circular system to reuse more clothing. 

Citation: Choi, Y.J., Ballie, J. and Puri, A., 2023. Reincarnation: waste, reuse, repair and upcycling. In Accelerating Sustainability in Fashion, Clothing and Textiles (pp. 299-311). Routledge.

2023

Sewing Box for the Future: Facilitating participatory fashion experiences to influence change

This chapter explores the idea of the sewing box as a metaphor, to raise awareness about diminishing sewing skills through exploration of participatory design in fashion, to identity strategies for prolonging the lifetime of everyday clothing. 

Citation: Ballie, J., More, M. and Clark, B., 2023. 7 Sewing Box for the Future. Design Materials and Making for Social Change: From Materials We Explore to Materials We Wear, p.124.

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2018

Circular by Design: A Model for Engaging Fashion/Textile SMEs with Strategies for Designed Reuse

This chapter explores how the principals of the circular economy might support business model innovation within fashion and textiles. To this end, an exploratory canvas tool for SMEs, ‘Circular by Design’, was devised to aid SMEs to embrace closed-loop systems and to identify the most appropriate sustainable design strategies for their business.

Citation: Ballie, J. and Woods, M., 2018. Circular by design: a model for engaging fashion/textile SMEs with strategies for designed reuse. In Unmaking waste in production and consumption: towards the circular economy (pp. 103-121). Emerald Publishing Limited.

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