The project builds on the existing fashion industry in Queensland, local climate projections and innovations in fashion including design for disassembly, digital-only fashion and biosynthetic fibres.

Given what you know about Climate Change, how do you imagine it will impact your future? What gives you cause for hope? Impact Lab 3, Week 12 reflection

How is regenerative design different to sustainable design? Have you been introduced to these ideas before in your studies? Impact Lab 3, week 11 reflection.

Impact lab 3, week 8 reflection Do you think that design has the power to shape new narratives and bring about a sustainable future? Why?

What do you think are the greatest barriers to change when it comes to protecting our future?

Impact Lab 3 Week 5 Reflection.

Impact Lab Weekly Reflection on when you first heard about the SDGs and your thoughts on sustainability action plans

Impact Lab 3 weekly reflection one. My current understanding of sustainable development.

Dress Code the digital transformation of the circular fashion supply chain. Published in the International Journal of Fashion Design, Technology and Education. Hilde Heim and Cait Hopper.

Talk presented at the 2nd Digital Fashion Innovation E-Symposium, Manchester Institute of Fashion and Manchester Metropolitan University with Dr. Hilde Heim

Conference talk by Dr. Hilde Heim and Cait Hopper. Fashion Spin: Blockchain and the transparent supply chain. Presented at Re-Imagining Global Fashion Business: New models, values & ideas.

This report explores the fibre stage of the denim life cycle as this stage is the foundation from which the principles of a circular economy as it relates to denim are built upon. The principles; design out waste pollution, keep products and materials in use, regenerate natural systems are all explored in relation to cotton's environmental impact throughout the report (Ellen Macarthur Foundation, 2017).

Luckily studying UX had already provided the answer. Develop empathy. Often for early career UX designers it can be easy to confuse sympathy with empathy. Sarah Gibbons of Nielsen Norman Group states that “empathy enables us to understand not only our users’ immediate frustrations, but also their hopes, fears, abilities, limitations, reasoning, and goals” and goes on to give an example that the best way to develop this empathy is to recreate a user’s experience ourselves(2019).

In the past two months I’ve attended the Digital Design Days conference in Milan, participated in a UX Research Q & A in San Francisco, learnt about conducting online Design Sprints and the future of Agritech in Brisbane, spent (almost) 24 hours learning about UX projects all over the world and next week will be back to San Francisco for a three day conference on UX Research.