MATERIAL OBSESSED FASHION FUTURIST
Christina Haxholm is a designer + researcher + futurist thinker, with a key focus on sustainability in fashion, and a passion for materials and our relationships with them.
In the intersection of design, social trend forecasting and scientific research, she designs scenarios and solutions for the future of sustainable human existence.
Projects
- DARE AW15 - Design for Change collectionOne may define roughly three aspects of sustainability: environmental, social and economical. As fashion professionals, we work with sustainability at different stages; Raw material, production and distribution all have massive effects on a product's social and ecological footprint. The care and disposal of a garment however, depends on the user. How can design encourage users to challenge the rules of fast fashion through their actions? In collaboration with Kristine Boesen and Julie Helles Er
- The Kering Award for Sustainable Fashion 2017 - In-Vitro Fur‘In Vitro Fur’ is a speculative prototype for cultural discussion. The field of synthetic biology and genetic modification is rapidly expanding, and is entering the realms of Fashion. Products like Modern Meadow’s in-vitro grown leather and Bolt Thread's Spider silk is a step towards a future where materials for fashion are grown in labs, and organisms are modified to suit our need for material production. Genetics is becoming a toolbox to create novice organisms, and it raises questions about t
- Regenisis of fur - Exploring ideological forecasts for the future of synthetic biology and materials for fashion.This MA project has grown entirely from idea of creating in-vitro grown fur. Something extraordinary is happening in the field of materials. The fashion industry is adopting synthetic biology and genetic modification, and is developing “victim-free” and genetically modified animal materials such as spider silk and lab-grown leather. The process often involves manmade DNA and genetically modified yeast, which will produce the proteins that make up most animal materials. In a future of lab-grown
Work history
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Event SpeakerBioArt Laboratories
- Eindhoven, NetherlandsFreelance
Speaker / workshop instructor at 'Curiosity Lab' event.
Event SpeakerThe Future Laboratory
- London, United KingdomFreelance
Expert speaker at Sustainability Futures event for industry members.
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Skills
- Ideation
- Big Ideas
- Fashion
- Design
- Sustainability
- Public Speaking
- Collaborative
- Project Management
- Material Design
- Alternative Materials
Education
Master of Arts Fashion FuturesLondon College of Fashion, UAL
- London, United Kingdom
The MA Fashion Futures course looks beyond fashion design as we currently know it. Mixing design practices, innovative thinking and conceptual speculations, along with technology and science, the course finds strategies for the future state of fashion in ecological, cultural and social contexts.
This course explores digital design applications, the interplay of hard and soft sciences, design futuring, fashion design theory, fashion thinking, meta design, ethics, politics, psychology and anthropology.
- http://www.arts.ac.uk/fashion/courses/postgraduate/ma-fashion-futures/
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Bachelor of Arts Fashion DesignDesign School Kolding, Denmark
- Kolding, Denmark
BA Fashion Design + 1st year of MA Fashion Design.