Learning from Laundry
Laundry practices, clothing design and resource consumption has been the focus of my research over the past eight years. While laundry is a pretty mundane chore that most of us don’t like to spend too much time doing, let alone thinking about, it’s also an extremely resource intensive and polluting practice. Our laundry loads have reached record high volumes. A quick glance back at history helps show us some of the reasons why laundry practices have evolved in environmentally