Costume and Sustainability

From Past Practice to Future Strategies for an Ecological Costume Praxis

Forfattere

  • Sofia Pantouvaki
  • Ingvill Fossheim
  • Susanna Suurla

Resumé

What can we learn from past traditions and what sustainability practices are currently employed in the field of costume? Moving towards a more ecological costume creation, there is an increasing need to address the responsibility of the costume practitioners through the lifecycle of costume from design to production. This article provides an overview of current sustainable costume practices and suggests that it is timely to rethink costume praxis from an ecologically responsible perspective. The article addresses the necessity of embedding ecological equity into all aspects of costume creation and proposes that a resilient ecosystem of costume practice can be envisioned within professional institutions, as well as the individual costume designer.

Forfatterbiografier

Sofia Pantouvaki

Dr. Sofia Pantouvaki is a scenographer and Professor of Costume Design at Aalto University. Chair of Critical Costume; Editor of the academic journal Studies in Costume and Performance; Vice Chair (Research) OISTAT Costume Sub-commission; and lead Editor of Performance Costume: New Perspectives and Methods (2021).
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1205-3818

Ingvill Fossheim

Ingvill Fossheim (MA) is a costume designer & scenographer, and doctoral candidate at Aalto University. Her artistic work and research seek to orient performance-making praxis towards responsible, resilient and regenerative material approaches.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5146-8664

Susanna Suurla

Susanna Suurla (MA) is a costume designer, doctoral candidate, and part-time lecturer in Costume Design at Aalto University. Her work and research explore the relationship between mind, matter, and meaning-making through different mediums of material engagement.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8250-0847

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2022-12-19

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Pantouvaki , S., Fossheim, I., & Suurla, S. (2022). Costume and Sustainability: From Past Practice to Future Strategies for an Ecological Costume Praxis. Peripeti, 19(37), 72–85. Hentet fra https://tidsskrift.dk/peripeti/article/view/135192

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